Before you delegate.
What delegation and staking actually involve, what they pay, where the risk sits, and how to check that any address claiming to be ours really is.
Delegating WFLR.
What happens, when it counts, and what it pays.
How do I delegate, and when does it start earning?
You delegate from your own wallet to the delegation address on the addresses page. Nothing leaves your wallet and nothing is locked: delegation assigns the vote power of WFLR you already hold.
Vote power is sampled once per reward epoch, at a block chosen inside the epoch before. Delegate before that sample and you earn from the next epoch; delegate after it and you wait one more. The delegation explorer counts down to the next snapshot.
What does the 20% fee actually mean?
The protocol pays a reward for each epoch. The provider keeps 20% and the rest goes to delegators in proportion to their share of the delegated vote power.
Across the 97 epochs on record that has meant 16.39M FLR paid out to delegators. Every epoch is listed on the epoch history.
Can I lose my WFLR by delegating?
Delegation does not transfer custody. Your WFLR stays in your wallet, you can undelegate or redelegate at any time, and delegated WFLR is not slashed on Flare.
What you can lose is reward. If the provider fails the protocol's minimal conditions for an epoch, that epoch pays nothing to anyone delegating to it. The conditions and the full pass record are on the FTSO page.
What is the risk I should actually weigh?
Three things, in order of how much they matter.
Reward risk. An epoch that fails a condition pays nothing. One epoch of 97 has failed here — epoch 354, an FDC round — and 82 have been clean since.
Rate risk. The reward rate is set by the protocol and moves with network-wide participation, not by the provider. It has fallen across the whole network since launch and may keep falling.
Concentration risk. This is a small provider by registered weight. That is good for your share of its rewards and thinner for its margin against the eviction threshold, which is published on the home page.
Staking FLR.
The P-chain rules that catch people out.
How long can I stake for?
Not longer than the validator's own staking period. That period currently ends on 19 October 2026, so a delegation placed today is capped at what remains — the validator page shows how many days that is, and the expiry timeline shows when existing stake rolls off.
This is a protocol rule, not a provider choice. The minimum delegation period is 14 days, so once fewer than 14 days remain no new delegation can be placed until the validator's own period is extended.
Is there a minimum, and is my FLR locked?
Flare requires a minimum of 50,000 FLR to delegate to a validator, and the FLR is locked for the period you choose. It is returned automatically when that period ends — there is nothing to claim and no way to withdraw early.
What happens if the validator goes offline?
Your stake is returned at the end of the period either way; downtime does not slash delegated FLR. It costs reward: a validator has to meet an uptime threshold for the epoch to pay. Uptime by epoch is on the validator page.
Why can the validator show as nearly full?
A Flare validator can carry a bounded multiple of its self-bond. The gauge on the home page shows how much of that ceiling is taken and how much room is left. When it is full, no new delegation can be accepted until stake rolls off or the self-bond grows.
Trust and safety.
How to check this is really us.
How do I know I have the right address?
Never take an address from a message, a search result or a site — including this one — without checking it. Every address this operator uses is listed on the addresses page with links to the block explorer and to FlareMetrics so you can confirm it independently.
Mirhollio Core will never contact you first, never ask for a seed phrase or private key, and never ask you to "validate" or "sync" a wallet. Anyone doing so is not us.
Where do the numbers on this site come from?
The delegator book is read directly from the WNat contract over public Flare RPC, so it does not depend on an indexer being up. Reward, condition and performance figures come from the protocol's own reward data; network comparisons from FlareMetrics; validator state from the P-chain.
The site is open source and every figure on it is produced by the scripts in that repository: github.com/MirkoS85/mirhollio-website.