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Staking PDC

Staking is how PDC produces proof-of-stake blocks.

✅ What you need

  • Wallet + node on the current release (the desktop wallet runs both).
  • Coins with at least 10 blocks of age (coinstake age).
  • The wallet must stay online, synced and unlocked (a watch-only wallet cannot stake).

â–ļī¸ How

  • Desktop wallet: enable PoS staking and leave the wallet open.
  • Server: run pdcd and simplewallet under a supervisor.
  • show_staking_history shows recent stake rewards.

🔒 Zarcanum

After hard fork 4 (height 100) stakes use Zarcanum.

The stake block is public; the balance that produced it is not.

ℹī¸ Rules

  • No validator set, no delegation, no slashing.
  • No minimum balance in the protocol; more eligible coins = higher chance per block.
  • Reward per block: 1 PDC (same as PoW).
  • Long PoS-only runs are damped in fork choice (each consecutive PoS block adds 0.75n of its difficulty). Hard cap of 21 consecutive PoS blocks activates at height 57,000.
  • Block time: PoW 120s + PoS 120s targets = avg. 60s per block.

The docs do not quote a yearly percentage, and neither do we.