There are two main options for staking on Waves Platform: running a full node and generating blocks yourself, or leasing your WAVES to a full node.

Block generation is generally the best option for those willing to install and run a full node. To do so, you will need to maintain a node with a balance of at least 1,000 WAVES. Additionally, you will need to factor in hosting costs for your server, which you can rent from Amazon or any other cloud provider. You don’t need anything too fancy — 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM and 40 GB storage should be enough. As an example, Digital Ocean charges $20 per month for a Droplet with these specifications. Block generators collect 40% of transaction fees for the generated block and 60% for the previous block. This 40/60 ratio is due to the specifics of the Waves Platform’s Waves-NG block generation protocol.

Those who do not want to install a node themselves and pay the running costs can still collect revenues by leasing their WAVES to other nodes. By doing so, WAVES holders can not only generate income but also help make the network more secure: the greater the proportion of total tokens leased out, the more expensive an attack on the network will be.

Different nodes will offer varying proportions of the WAVES they receive as rewards to lessors, as well as their own tokens and other benefits.

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