How to Stake TRX for Energy (Stake 2.0), Step by Step

Staking TRX for energy gives your account energy every day, so USDT transfers stop burning TRX. Your TRX stays in your account the whole time; you can get it back with a 14-day wait. This guide covers how much you need, the exact steps, and the details that trip people up.

Before you start

• Decide how many transfers a day you want covered. The energy calculator shows how much TRX that needs at today's network rate — typically thousands of TRX per daily USDT transfer.
• Keep some TRX unstaked for bandwidth and for the fee on the staking transaction itself.
• Only stake TRX you won't need for at least two weeks — unstaking takes 14 days.
• Check it's worth it. If you send USDT only occasionally, renting energy is usually cheaper than buying TRX to stake.

Step by step

1. Open a TRON wallet that supports Stake 2.0 (most major TRON wallets do, for example TronLink).
2. Go to the resources or staking section and choose Stake (sometimes called Freeze or Obtain).
3. Pick Energy as the resource.
4. Enter the amount of TRX. Most wallets show an estimate of the energy you'll get.
5. Confirm the transaction.
6. Your energy appears within a block or two and refills continuously over each 24 hours.

Check that it worked

Open your account resources in the wallet or on TRONSCAN: you should see your energy limit increase. Your next USDT transfer should burn little or no TRX.

Energy or bandwidth?

In Stake 2.0 you choose the resource per stake:

• Energy — for smart-contract calls: USDT and other TRC-20 transfers, DEX swaps, dApps.
• Bandwidth — for transaction size; every account already gets 600 free per day.

For USDT transfers, stake for energy. You can make separate stakes for each if you need both.

Also vote with it

Staked TRX gives you TRON Power — one vote per staked TRX. Voting for a Super Representative doesn't lock anything extra or cost energy, and it earns voting rewards. Compare SRs by voter APY on our Super Representatives page. Step by step: how to stake TRX and vote.

Delegate energy to another address

You can delegate the energy from your stake to another address — a business wallet, a second account, a customer — without moving the TRX. The receiving address can use the energy for its transfers; you keep ownership and can reclaim it. This is the same mechanism energy rental services use.

Things to know

• Energy per TRX changes. Your share = your stake ÷ all TRX staked for energy, times the network's daily energy. It falls as more TRX is staked overall.
• Energy refills, it doesn't pile up. Used energy recovers over 24 hours up to your maximum.
• Unstaking takes 14 days before the TRX can be withdrawn. See how to unstake TRX.
• Staking isn't a deposit to someone else. The TRX never leaves your account; no third party holds it.

Quick answers

What's the minimum stake? 1 TRX, but small stakes give very little energy.

Do I earn TRX by staking? Staking itself gives resources; rewards come from voting for a Super Representative.

Can I stake from an exchange? Some exchanges offer their own TRX staking products; those are custodial and work differently.