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Staking & Collators

PezkuwiChain is secured by TNPoS (Trust-enhanced Nominated Proof-of-Stake). You can take part in three ways: nominate (easiest), validate, or run a collator.

Staking lives on Asset Hub

Nominate, check staking.counterForNominators, and read staking figures on Asset Hub (wss://asset-hub-rpc.pezkuwichain.io), not the relay chain. It has been there since genesis — this network has no migration to perform, and upstream text about an "Asset Hub Migration" does not describe it.

Nominators back one or more validators with their staked HEZ and earn a share of the rewards those validators produce. You don't run any infrastructure.

In broad strokes:

  1. Hold HEZ in your account.
  2. Bond an amount for staking.
  3. Nominate a set of validators you trust.
  4. Earn rewards each era; unbond later (subject to an unbonding period) to free your funds.

Tip

Spread your nomination across several reliable validators rather than one. Rewards depend on the validators you pick actually being elected and staying online.

Validating

Validators run a node, are elected into the active set via TNPoS, and produce and finalize relay-chain blocks. They put up their own stake and attract nominations. Misbehavior (e.g. going offline or equivocating) can be slashed, so validating is an operational commitment.

What nomination does and does not decide

TNPoS does not elect the committee by stake. It fills nine strata of three seats each, and inside a stratum a higher score buys no advantage at all: a score decides whether you may enter the pool, and a uniform random draw decides whether you sit. Nomination and Phragmen still rank candidates, but only inside the stake stratum — three seats of twenty-seven. Trust is a gate, not a ranking. See TNPoS.

Running a collator

Collators are the block producers for the teyrchains (Asset Hub, People Chain). They collect transactions, build teyrchain blocks, and submit them with proofs to the relay chain's validators.

  • Collators are listed via collatorSelection.invulnerables (the configured, trusted collator set) on each teyrchain.
  • At the network's current stage the collator set is intentionally small and curated across Asset Hub and the People Chain.

Where staking rewards come from

Staking rewards come from HEZ issuance, and HEZ does not halve. Emission is a flat share of a fixed 200,000,000 base — 8% by default, capped at 10% by a constant no parameter can exceed — of which 15% goes to the treasury and the rest to those securing the chain. Because the base is fixed rather than the total issuance, the emission does not compound and the effective rate falls each year.

The halving belongs to PEZ, not HEZ

The 48-month halving is PEZ's rewards schedule — a fixed five billion released monthly to citizens and the state budget. The two tokens have opposite supply rules, and a sentence about "the halving" that does not name its token is wrong about one of them. See Tokens.

Operator details

Exact bonding minimums, era lengths, unbonding periods, and node setup instructions are version-specific. Check the current on-chain constants and the SDK docs before committing real funds or infrastructure.