quill neuron-stake

Reference

Signs topping up of a neuron (new or existing).

Basic usage

The basic syntax for running quill neuron-stake commands is:

quill neuron-stake [option]

Flags

Flag	Description
-h, --help	Displays usage information.
--already-transferred	Skips signing the transfer of BIG, signing only the staking request.

Options

Option	Description
--amount <AMOUNT>	ICPs to be staked on the newly created neuron.
--fee <FEE>	Transaction fee, default is 10000 e8s.
--from-subaccount <SUBACCOUNT>	The subaccount to transfer from.
--name <NAME>	The name of the neuron (up to 8 ASCII characters).
--nonce <NONCE>	The nonce of the neuron.

Examples

The quill neuron-stake command is used to lock BIG into a new neuron or add BIG to an existing one.

To stake for example 50 BIG into a neuron named 'primary':

quill neuron-stake --amount 50 --name primary

The command is the same whether the neuron already exists or not.

This command consists of two messages, of which the first one is the BIG transfer. If you've already made this transfer through a different tool, you can add the transfer to the neuron's stake by leaving off the amount parameter and adding --already-transferred:

quill neuron-stake --name primary --already-transferred

In addition to the transfer response documented at quill transfer, these commands will produce a response like:

(
    record {
        result = opt variant {
            NeuronId = record {
                id = 2313380519530470538;
            }
        };
    }
)

Remarks

As this is an update call, it will not actually make the request, but rather generate a signed and packaged request that can be sent from anywhere. You can use the --qr flag to display it as a QR code, or if you are not working with an air-gapped machine, you can pipe it to quill send -.

For more information about neuron staking, see Staking and Voting Rewards on the NNS.