# Staking

If you are a user and want to know how to stake in a token farm, this is the page for you. Note that this page explains some technical stuff about how the contract works. You won't need to worry about most of these details if you are using our front end when you stake.

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Please be aware that third-party token contracts are out of our control. A contract owner can adjust balances at their will, or add additional logic that breaks the rules of standard token contracts. Due to these potential issues, we can not guarantee that a farm will always behave as expected. For example, if your token is a tax token that takes a fee on every transfer, our contract may end up with a lower balance than anticipated, resulting in users not getting the proper rewards. We accept no responsibility for issues like this. Please be aware of which tokens you are interacting with, and notify farm owners about potential issues - especially if they have a taxable token.
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### stake Action

Before you can transfer tokens into a farm and stake them, you first need to make sure you have a row open for that farm. You can do this by calling the `stake` action, which takes in the following details.

| Param      | Type | Description                                         |
| ---------- | ---- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| user       | name | The WAX address of the user who wants to stake      |
| farm\_name | name | The name of the farm they want to stake tokens into |

### Depositing Tokens To Stake

After a user has called the `stake` action, they can now deposit their tokens. This can be done by sending the staking tokens to `tf.waxdao` with the following memo:

`|stake|<farm_name>|`

For example:

`|stake|mynewfarm|`

It is worth noting that every time a new deposit is made, it will reset the lock period for your full balance in this farm. This only applies if the farm creator has set a `vesting_time` > `0` for their farm, which can be determined by looking at the `farms` table on the `tf.waxdao` contract.

Ideally, front ends should also be displaying the lock time to users so they can have the full picture before making the decision to stake.

### Claiming Rewards

Rewards from a farm are paid out every second. Technically, you could claim rewards every second if you wanted to (as long as you have rewards to claim). In order to claim rewards, you need to call the `getreward` action on the contract.&#x20;

The `getreward` action takes in the following details.

| Param      | Type | Description                                         |
| ---------- | ---- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| user       | name | Your WAX address that you are staking from          |
| farm\_name | name | The name of the farm you want to claim rewards from |

### Unstaking

If you want to unstake your tokens from a farm, you can call the `unstake` action on the contract. Note that the current time must be > your `vesting_end_time` in order to unstake.

The `unstake` action takes in the following details.

| Param      | Type  | Description                                            |
| ---------- | ----- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| user       | name  | Your WAX address                                       |
| farm\_name | name  | The name of the farm to unstake from                   |
| amount     | asset | The amount of tokens you want to unstake from the farm |