Staking contract

Contract Address

abeychain staking contract is deployed at address:

0x000000000000000000747275657374616b696E67

Contract json ABI

Refer to Staking ABI

Interact with contract interface

deposit

One node can participate as a validator to proposal new blocks with deposit function. To create your validator, you need to deposit some abey coin and register you validator public key. Delegators can bond their coin to the validator account and shares block reward by their portion. Validator can charge for additional fee rate from the delegators reward.

The feeRate calculation:

feeRate = fee / 10000

After deposit, the node becomes a validator candidate. Only if the deposit balance > 20000(abey), the validator can be selected as a candidate.

parameter	type	comment
pubkey	bytes	BFT public key of 65 bytes
fee	uint256	percent of reward charged for delegate, the rate = fee / 10000
value	wei	abey token to deposit

cancel

Validator can cancel a portion of the deposit from staking balance. With the cancel transaction executed, the cancelled portion is locked in the contract for about 2 weeks. After the period, validator can withdraw the canceled coins.

parameter	type	comment
value	uint256	unlock a portion of deposit, the unit is wei

append

Validator can deposit extra abey token to the deposit contract by append function.

parameter	type	comment
value	wei	amout of coin staked by the deposit account

withdraw

Validator can withdraw the unlocked token after a locking period of 2 weeks. All the deposit balance can be retrived by getDeposit function.

parameter	type	comment
value	uint256(wei)	amount of value withdrawed to the owner

getDeposit

Validator can query deposit balance by getDeposit function. there are 3 states for the deposit: staked, locked, unlocked

• staked: token which validator bond to stake contract and may receive block reward

• locked: token which were canceld but are still locked in the deposit util 2 weeks.

• unlocked: valdator use withdraw token of unlocked state

parameter	type	comment
owner	address	address of deposit validator

getDeposit function outputs uint256 tuple of 3 items:(staked, locked, unlocked)

parameter	type	comment
staked	uint256	amount which is staked in deposit
locked	uint256	amount which is cancelled but still is in lock period
unlocked	uint256	amount which validator can withdraw

delegate

People who do not want to run a validator full node can deposit their token to a certern validator to gain staking reward.

If the holder's own deposit is less than 20000 abey, delegtor can not receive any reward as the validator would't be elected as a candidate.

parameter	type	comment
holder	address	address of a particular validator account
value	wei	amout of coin deposit to the delegator account

undelegate

Delegator can cancel a portion of the deposit from a certern validator holder. With the undelegate transaction, the cancelled portion is locked in the contract for about 2 weeks. After the period, delegator can withdraw the canceled token.

parameter	type	comment
holder	address	address of the delegator
value	uint256	unlock a portion of delegated coin

withdrawDelegate

Delegator can withdraw the unlocked token from a validtor. All the delegation balance can be retrived by getDelegate function.

parameter	type	comment
holder	address	address of the delegator
value	uint256	amount of coin withdrawed to the owner

getDelegate

getDelegate return the balance state of a delegator. The state of token balance is similar to getDeposit

parameter	type	comment
owner	address	owner address of the delegated coin
holder	address	address of the delegator

getDelegate function outputs uint256 tuple of 3 items: (staked, locked, unlocked)

parameter	type	comment
staked	uint256	amount which is staked in deposit
locked	uint256	amount which is cancelled but still is in lock period
unlocked	uint256	amount which coin owner can withdraw