Welcome to Fluence Staking: Stake & Shape the Cloudless Future
We are excited to announce that FLT Staking is officially live! Fluence staking is now open to all FLT holders. Since launching the network in February 2024, we’ve been focused on building a strong foundation by carefully onboarding top-tier compute providers to power our marketplace. Now, it’s your turn to join the movement.
Starting today, any FLT holder can stake and play a key role in shaping the cloudless future. By staking, you’re not only supporting Fluence’s mission—you’re also enabling a wide range of cutting-edge use cases within the DePIN and AI ecosystems. Read on to find out more.
Why Support the Fluence Mission
Fluence is revolutionizing the way we think about computing. It’s a decentralized, resilient, and super affordable platform that ditches the traditional cloud model, offering up to 80% savings compared to major providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Powered by a growing network of compute providers, Fluence delivers verifiable decentralized computing that’s built to empower users and communities alike. By embracing decentralization, Fluence tackles the single point of failure that holds back Web3. It’s an open, flexible platform that fuels innovation, letting you easily switch between providers without the headaches of traditional cloud systems. While most businesses are stuck with rising costs, censorship risks, and limited cross-platform data sharing, Fluence breaks these barriers, giving you the freedom to build, share, and create without limits.
Join the movement that’s transforming the future of computing—one that puts control back in your hands and sparks the next wave of innovation.
Stake and Define the Future of Compute & DePIN
The Fluence staking mechanism empowers anyone to play a key role in the availability of decentralized compute resources, all in a permissionless and community-driven way. By staking FLT tokens—whether directly or through liquidity pooling—you become a vital contributor to the cloudless future of computing.
When you stake with Fluence, you're not just supporting the platform—you’re fueling groundbreaking use cases across the DePIN and AI ecosystems. From running verifiable AI models and powering decentralized AI to processing massive data sets and building unstoppable distributed systems managed by decentralized organizations in Web3, your participation drives the innovation behind these transformative technologies.
Network Supply: Top Enterprise-Grade Providers
While designing Fluence decentralized compute network and the compute providers marketplace, it was important for us to work with industry leading providers of enterprise-grade hardware infrastructure, optimized for the next generation of the Internet. Therefore, we are thrilled to have PiKNiK, Nebula, Protofire and Kabat onboarded as the first batch of providers, operating Tier 1 to Tier 4 data centers globally. These partnerships ensure a robust and reliable foundation for the marketplace, which allows seamless access for customers to best DePIN compute resources - at a price up to 80% lower than the cloud. Moreover, several of our collaborators provide infrastructure powered 100% by renewable energy sources and natural gas. We’re happy to enable these eco-conscious providers on a mission to lower the carbon footprint of compute.
Staking Mechanics Explained
Fluence's staking mechanism secures the network while offering rewards to stakers. It ensures that the compute providers maintain quality, security, and verifiability, with each compute job backed by an FLT stake. Providers submit capacity commitments for CPU cores and set rental prices. To activate a CPU core, it must have FLT staked on it. Activated hardware generates Proofs of Capacity, validated on the Fluence chain, and rewards are distributed upon submitting proofs. If insufficient proofs are provided, the stake is slashed, ensuring the hardware meets the provider's performance claims.
At Fluence, we believe in a multichain future and designed our protocol as multichain from the start. Staking is launching on an Arbitrum Orbit rollup operated by Gelato, and secured by Ethereum as a settlement layer.
Find out more about Fluence staking mechanics in this blog post.
Delegated Staking Model
Fluence has introduced an innovative delegated staking model that enhances network security. Traditionally, compute and storage DePIN projects limit staking to hardware providers, leaving no opportunity for community participation. Fluence is deploying a delegated staking model that allows all FLT (the Fluence token) holders to delegate stakes to compute providers in return for a share of rewards, enabling the broader Fluence community to contribute to the platform's security.
FLT Rewards
Staking requirements depend on the size of the servers within the network. Typical server would require from USD 6,000 to USD 12,000 worth of FLT. In order to allow all stakeholders to stake, even if they don’t hold enough FLT - we have partnered with Parasail, the first restaking protocol that provides on-chain economic endorsement for DePIN services to drive adoption.
How to Stake
Any holder with a sufficient amount of FLT is able to stake on the Fluence network and join us on our mission towards enabling decentralized compute globally. Access to staking is unlocked by the Fluence NFT. In order to participate, you must first purchase an NFT from the newly launched NFT marketplace.
Once you have purchased your NFT, you can stake FLT tokens by navigating to the Staking App, where you'll see a list of all available Capacity Commitments. Each Capacity Commitment corresponds to a physical server connected to the Fluence protocol. Following a Capacity Commitment, providers must ensure the server's availability and send cryptographic proofs on-chain. From this point on, these servers can seamlessly switch to run the workloads deployed by customers on the Fluence network.
To stake your FLT, connect your wallet and click the Stake button next to the Capacity Commitment that meets your criteria. Once you have staked the required amount of FLT, the Capacity Commitment you selected will appear in your page.
The Staking App is the main place where you can track and manage all your staked positions. You'll be able to examine the status of each Capacity Commitment, check FLT rewards undergoing vesting and those available for withdrawal. You can also withdraw rewards and redeem collateral from completed Capacity Commitments.
Stake Your FLT Now
We’re looking forward to welcoming the community of Fluence staking participants who will be instrumental to our mission of creating a cloudless future. Are you one of them? To join, check the documentation, visit the NFT marketplace, and check out the Staking App.
What’s Next
Thank you for joining us on the journey towards FLT staking, yet another big milestone for our team and the Fluence network. Spread the news with your network and help us build a cloudless future together. For any questions about staking, join our community on our Discord or Telegram channels.
Stay tuned for Stake Race Lap 2, the continuation of our dynamic quest designed to onboard new users into the Fluence protocol. More information on that is coming soon.