What is Protocol Staking on Boundless?
Staking ZKC is how you take part in securing and guiding the Boundless network. By staking ZK Coin, you unlock both rewards and voting power in Boundless governance.
Earning Through Staking
When you stake ZKC, you receive a share of 25% of epoch emissions. Rewards are distributed every Boundless epoch, which is roughly once every 48 hours.
Your rewards are proportional to your percentage of the total network stake. Because staking is still new, yields may be higher while fewer participants are involved.
Your protocol stake is not at risk of slashing
Each staker receives a soul-bound NFT that represents their voting rights, ensuring they cannot be sold, transferred, or borrowed.
Earning Potential for Provers
For provers, protocol staking is essential: provers’ share of the staking pool defines the capacity to claim Proof of Verifiable Work (PoVW) rewards.
The more ZKC a prover stakes, the more proving work can be monetized.
After proofs are completed, rewards can be claimed through the PoVW contract, up to the ceiling set by provers' staked ZKC.
In simple terms: staking expands the earning potential for provers.
Secure Governance
Boundless uses a “voting escrow” token system to secure governance participation. Here’s how it works:
When you stake ZKC, you receive a unique, soul-bound NFT that represents your voting power.
This NFT is non-transferable, meaning it cannot be sold, traded, or borrowed against.
By tying governance rights to non-transferable tokens, the risk of flash loan attacks or sudden governance takeovers.
Boundless’ approach to staking builds on a model first popularized by Curve Finance’s “vote-escrow” system, but with modifications tailored for the Boundless compute (aka non financial) ecosystem.
Get Started Now
Stake your ZKC and take part in shaping the network.
Begin today at
staking.boundless.network
