Complete 2019 Guide on Staking WAVES | H2OX.io leasing pool REVIEW
If you have WAVES tokens or decide to buy some as mid-long term investment, it might be a good idea to stake them and earn from compounding.
I've just gone through the whole process and it is super easy!
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This is a complete guide on how to lease/stake WAVES and automatically earn from compound interests.
Not familiar with Waves? It is a decentralized platform that allows any user to issue, transfer, swap or trade custom tokens on the blockchain.
But I will add:
Finally a blockchain that works!
It is fast/cheap to transfer tokens and super user friendly compared to the great majority of wallets and DEXs.
How profitable is WAVES staking?
The Waves Platform lets you run a full node with a min. 1000 WAVES stake making you actually a participant on the forging of new blocks.
But not everyone has 1000 WAVES so if this is your case you can start leasing your tokens to a pool (essentially someone that has a full node).
You can look up for the profitability of almost all proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies on StakingRewards.com
At the moment the calculator shows that you can earn between 4-8% a year staking WAVES. This calculation does not include compounding or price fluctuations. 📈
My opinion: The yearly earnings could be a lot higher if the WAVES token can touch higher yet historical prices.
Downloading the Waves Client
1. The first step is to download the Waves Client.
Its a wallet and a DEX (decentralized exchange)
2. Login or create a wallet, get your new address.
3. Store your passphrase somewhere safe
4. Transfer WAVES to your new address.
You can also transfer BTC, ETH, LTC, EUR, USD then trade it for WAVES.
5. Start leasing
You can follow official guide the but usually one gets stuck on the leasing pool choice.
Choosing a leasing pool
There are a great variety o leasing pools all with slightly different reward distributions.
The great majority of leasing pools will give you at least 98% of WAVES rewards, plus one or more custom tokens usually paid once a week. After going through many threads on the forum and reviewing a lot of leasing pools I choose the H2OX.io pool.
You can check the complete leasing pool list on the official WAVES forum.
Why the H2OX.io leasing pool?
Because it's not just a pool.
It's also an exchange and faucet hub!
"H2OX is a crypto exchange that is currently being built from the ground up around the Waves platform and includes many community building features." Twitter
This leasing pool will give you 100% of the WAVES rewards directly to your wallet every forged block.
This means you don't have to wait 1 week or 1 month to get your rewards like in other pools. It also means that every time you earn a reward it is directly deposited into your leasing wallet. Thus compounding your every single earnings.
This is the only leasing pool that doing that at the moment!
All tokens are hosted on the WAVES blockchain and there are two gateway tokens: TRX & DOGE.
They also give bonus airdrop of all kinds of tokens since it's an exchange and faucet they get a lot of tokens for promotional giveaways.
The only 'different' thing you have to do is to verify your address on their site.
Here is how to do that:
1. Sign up on H2OX.io
2. Verify your Waves address
To verify you need to send a small amount (like 0.001 WAVES) of any token to your own H2OX wallet.
When you lease your coins you can recover them in two clicks at any time via the Waves Client.
And there is more: Faucets, lots of them!
There are at the time of writing 229 faucets rewarding from 130+ different tokens!
They also offer an affiliate program that gives 20% on faucets claims from invites!
Additional information
That's guys it I hope you learned something from this article.
Tell me what do you think about the Waves Platform and the H2OX exchange in the comments bellow.