How to Stake.

Staking

Connect your wallet on the Stake page. Your unstaked souls appear in the left grid. Tap any soul to select it. The selection counter at the bottom shows how many you've picked. Tap Stake Selected (or Stake All) and confirm the transaction in your wallet.

When the transaction confirms, the staking contract calls setLocked on each soul in the NFT contract. From that moment the soul is locked inside your wallet:

• You still own it. balanceOf still counts it. It still shows up in your wallet's NFT list.
• It cannot be transferred or sold while staked. The lock is enforced at the contract level in _beforeTokenTransfers.
• It begins earning a share of every royalty as soon as the staking tx is mined.

You can stake more souls at any time. Each new stake takes effect for the very next royalty deposit.

Earning

Royalty income arrives whenever a Undead sells on a marketplace that respects royalties (OpenSea and marketplaces that honor the royalty). Half of the royalty automatically flows to the staking contract; the other half goes to the creator wallet.

Your unclaimed earnings are tracked by a Synthetix-style pull model: rewards accumulate against your address as new royalties enter the pool. Nothing rebases. Nothing decays. Nothing is spent on gas on your behalf until you choose to claim.

Your share at any moment is calculated as:

(your active stake) ÷ (total active stake) × royalty deposit

Undeads in cooldown do not earn. Other souls you have staked keep earning normally.

Claiming Rewards

On the Stake page, your accumulated rewards display in real time under Earned. Tap Claim to pull them to your wallet. There is no minimum, no cap, and no time gate. Claim whenever the gas math makes sense for you.

Claiming does not unstake. It just sweeps your accrued ETH and zeros the counter.

Unstaking

To unstake, select the staked souls you want to retrieve and hit Unstake Selected. This is the request unstake step. No soul leaves staking yet. Instead:

• Each selected soul moves from Staked to Cooling.
• A 1-hour cooldown timer starts. All souls in the same request share one timer.
• Undeads in cooldown stop earning. Your other staked souls continue.
• Undeads remain locked. They cannot be transferred during cooldown.

When the timer hits zero, the Finalize button activates. Confirm the transaction and the staking contract calls setLocked(id, false) on each soul. The lock lifts. Undead is fully yours again, free to transfer, list, or re-stake.

Canceling a Cooldown

Changed your mind? Anytime during the cooldown, hit Cancel on the cooldown card. You can cancel individual souls (tap each chip to select, then Cancel selected) or all at once.

Canceled souls go straight back to Staked and immediately resume earning. No cost beyond gas. No penalty. No restart of any timer.

Marketplace Listings

This trips up a lot of people, so read it carefully.

The rule

Always unlist before you stake. Always unstake before you list.

Listings live off-chain on the marketplace. The staking lock lives on-chain in the NFT contract. They don't know about each other. Mixing them creates the problems below, none of which are theoretical.

What goes wrong if you list while staked

OpenSea (and Blur, Magic Eden, every aggregator) keeps your listing visible because the signed order is still cryptographically valid. The marketplace has no idea the token is locked. Three concrete consequences:

• Buyers waste gas on failed transactions. Anyone who clicks Buy will have their transaction revert in _beforeTokenTransfers. They pay gas for nothing and get nothing in return. Repeat enough times and marketplace algorithms flag the collection.
• Your listing can anchor the floor below the real market. If your listed price was the lowest when you staked, and the market moves up afterwards, your dead listing keeps showing as the floor, but it can't be filled. The collection floor reads artificially low to anyone scanning, and real buyers waste gas trying to take it.
• You can lose money on the unstake. The instant you finalize unstake, the lock lifts. Your old listing, possibly priced from days or weeks ago, below today's market, is suddenly fillable. The first bot watching for newly-unlocked tokens can snipe it. You sell at yesterday's price even though today's price is higher.

What goes wrong if you stake while listed

Same outcome as above, in reverse. Your existing listing keeps drawing failed buy attempts and keeps anchoring the floor until you either cancel it on the marketplace or unstake. Cancellation costs gas. Unstaking takes an hour.

Selling a staked soul

A staked soul cannot be sold, period. To actually sell:

• Request unstake on the soul.
• Wait for the 1-hour cooldown.
• Finalize. The lock lifts.
• List on the marketplace at the price you want today.

In that order. Don't list before finalizing, don't relist a stale order, don't leave an old order live "just in case." Cancel anything stale first, then list fresh.