TRON Stake 2.0 Explained: Staking, Delegation and Unstaking
What TRON Stake 2.0 lets you do — stake for energy or bandwidth, vote, delegate resources to other addresses, and unstake with a 14-day wait.
· 1 min read · TronOrb team
Stake 2.0 is TRON's current staking system, introduced in 2023. It's how you get energy and bandwidth, voting power, and — through delegation — how energy rental works.
What Stake 2.0 lets you do
- Stake TRX for either energy or bandwidth.
- Get TRON Power: one vote per staked TRX, to vote for Super Representatives and earn voting rewards.
- Delegate your energy or bandwidth to any other address — without sending it your TRX.
- Unstake partially or fully, with a 14-day waiting period before withdrawing.
Staking vs delegation
When you stake, the resource lands on your own account. With delegation, you point it at another address: a second wallet, a business account, or a customer. You keep ownership of the TRX; the other address just gets the energy. Energy rental services are built on this mechanism — see TRON energy rental.
Delegations can have an optional lock period, and delegated resources must be reclaimed before that stake can be unstaked.
How much energy you get
Energy is shared: your daily energy = your stake ÷ all TRX staked for energy × the network's daily energy limit. That's why the energy per TRX moves over time. Our energy calculator uses the live rate.
Unstaking
Unstaking starts a 14-day countdown; after it ends you withdraw the TRX back to your balance. Plan ahead if you might need the TRX soon. Details: how to unstake TRX.