Stake BNB.

To stake BNB means delegating your BNB tokens to a validator on BNB Chain so the network can use them toward consensus, in exchange for a share of the block rewards and fees that validator collects. Nothing is bridged or transferred to another chain — you keep your BNB on the same network, and delegation is simply a signed instruction that tells the staking contract which validator should count your balance toward its stake weight. Every delegation, reward payout and validator's uptime record is public and checkable on a block explorer such as BscScan, so you are never relying on a dashboard's word alone. The amount you delegate, the validator's commission rate, and how long you leave the position open all determine what you end up earning when you stake BNB.

BNB Chain runs on a Proof of Staked Authority model, a design documented in BNB Chain's own documentation, where a fixed set of validators produce blocks and delegators back those validators with staked BNB rather than running infrastructure themselves. Delegating is how almost everyone who stakes BNB actually participates: you never need to run a node, only to choose who you trust to run one well.

Choosing a validator

Each validator sets its own commission rate and has its own uptime and slashing history, both visible on-chain. A lower commission means a larger share of rewards reaches you, but a validator with inconsistent uptime can cost more in missed rewards than its fee ever saved.

How rewards accrue

Rewards come from a mix of block rewards and the transaction fees the validator processes, distributed to delegators roughly in proportion to their share of that validator's total stake, usually on a daily or per-epoch basis depending on the staking interface you use.

Bonding and unbonding

A new delegation is active almost immediately, but unstaking is not instant: BNB Chain enforces an unbonding period of roughly seven days during which your tokens are locked and earning nothing, a deliberate delay that protects the network from rapid stake reshuffling.

APR when you stake BNB is not fixed the way a savings account rate is — it moves with total network stake, validator commission, and how actively a validator is producing blocks. The table below lines up the main ways to stake BNB against the return and liquidity trade-off each one carries.

Staking method	Typical APR range	Liquidity
Delegated staking (direct)	~2%–4%	Locked, ~7-day unbonding
Liquid staking (slisBNB)	~2%–4% minus a small protocol fee	Tradable immediately
Exchange staking	Varies, exchange sets the rate	Depends on exchange lock-up

The rewards calculator on this page takes three inputs — the amount of BNB you plan to delegate, the validator's advertised APY, and the period you intend to stay staked — and projects the BNB you should accumulate before unbonding. Because APR drifts with network conditions, treat the output as an estimate anchored to today's rate, not a locked-in guarantee, and revisit it whenever a validator changes its commission.

• Enter the amount of BNB you intend to delegate into the calculator.
• Enter the validator's current advertised APY, found on its staking page or on-chain.
• Choose the staking period you plan to hold the delegation for.
• Review the projected reward and the amount you would have after the unbonding period.
• Confirm the validator's commission is already reflected in the APY before you delegate.
• Delegate the amount from your wallet and track accrual on a block explorer.

Picking a validator is the one decision that affects every subsequent reward you earn, since commission and reliability compound over every epoch you stay delegated.

Commission and reputation

A validator's commission is deducted before rewards reach delegators, so two validators with identical uptime can hand you meaningfully different totals. Longer-running validators with a public track record are generally easier to evaluate than new ones with no history.

Slashing and downtime risk

A validator that goes offline or misbehaves can be penalized, and that penalty can reduce the rewards available to its delegators even though your principal itself is not typically seized under normal delegated staking.

Spreading a position across validators

Delegating to more than one validator trades a small amount of simplicity for reduced exposure to any single validator's downtime or commission changes, a common approach once a position grows large enough to matter. Reviewing each validator's historical uptime percentage and the number of blocks it has missed over recent weeks gives a clearer picture than its commission rate alone, since a cheap validator that frequently falls offline can still underperform a slightly costlier one with a clean record.

Direct delegation locks your BNB for the unbonding period whenever you want it back, which is the main trade-off liquid staking is built to solve. Depositing BNB into a liquid staking protocol mints a receipt token such as slisBNB, which represents your staked position plus accruing rewards and can be traded, used as collateral, or deployed elsewhere in DeFi while the underlying BNB keeps earning in the background. The concept mirrors liquid staking derivatives on other proof-of-stake networks, a pattern explained in general terms by ethereum.org for staking on Ethereum. The trade-off is a small protocol fee and smart-contract risk in exchange for not having to wait out the unbonding period to access your value. Because the receipt token's exchange rate against BNB climbs as rewards accrue rather than paying out separately, you can hold it in a wallet or move it between DeFi positions without manually claiming anything, and redeeming it later still routes through the same unbonding mechanics as a direct delegation.

Many exchanges, including Binance as described on its Wikipedia entry, offer a simplified staking product where the exchange delegates on your behalf. That convenience comes with a trade-off: your BNB sits in the exchange's custody rather than your own wallet, and you rely on the exchange's own validator choices and withdrawal terms. Self-custody delegation keeps your BNB under your own keys the entire time, lets you pick and change validators yourself, and gives you on-chain proof of every reward through BscScan rather than a statement inside an app. For anyone who already holds their own keys, delegating directly is generally the more transparent way to stake BNB, while exchange staking remains a lower-friction option for holders who are not yet managing a self-custody wallet. The two approaches are not mutually exclusive: some holders keep a portion on an exchange for convenience and delegate the rest directly, splitting their BNB between simplicity and the transparency of watching every reward settle on-chain.