How to stake safely from your own wallet

Taosis is read-only

Taosis never builds, signs or sends a transaction, and never asks your wallet to sign anything. Connecting a wallet here only tells the page which address is yours; everything it shows is public chain data anyone can read by pasting the address.

So a stake, an unstake or a move always happens somewhere else: in your own wallet extension, or on a staking platform you connect it to. What follows is what to check there.

Your keys stay yours

Staking is done from your own coldkey, and a validator can never move or withdraw what is staked to it. Nobody needs your τ to stake it for you: a service that asks you to send τ to its address is taking custody, a risk the chain does not require.

Never type your seed phrase into a website. An extension signs on your own device, and a hardware wallet keeps the key off the computer altogether — SubWallet works with a Ledger.

Read what you approve

A stake is the chain's addStake call, or its limit variant: a validator hotkey, a subnet and an amount of τ. Check the subnet number, the amount and the hotkey in your wallet's own prompt, not only on the page that prepared it.

Prefer the limit variant with a tight price tolerance: the chain then refuses the order — or partially fills it, if you allow that — rather than executing far from the price you saw. Root (SN0) is one-to-one and needs no tolerance.

Slippage and front-running

A buy moves the pool's price while it executes; the gap between the spot price and your average fill is slippage, and it grows with the order's size against the pool. The depth columns on the screener show how much τ moves each subnet's price by 2% or 5%.

Bots watch pending transactions to buy just before a large order and sell right after it. A tight tolerance caps what they can take, and splitting a large entry into smaller buys over time keeps each order small against the pool. Some platforms can also submit an order through the chain's MEV Shield, which keeps it encrypted until it is included, so nobody can read it in time to trade ahead of it.

After you approve

Every stake is public within a block. Paste your address into the Portfolio or the Explorer to check that the position landed on the subnet and validator you meant, and at what price — Taosis indexes each fill from the chain's own StakeAdded event.