How much will I earn by staking?

You can use the official Reward Calculator to estimate how much you may earn by staking your ADA. This provides an estimate and does not necessarily reflect the reward amount which depends on several factors, such as stake pool performance and changes to network parameters from the Cardano Foundation.

When will I receive my staking rewards?

The first time that you delegate, you will receive the first rewards after the time needed until the end of the current epoch + 3 epochs.
One epoch equals to 5 days, so this is equivalent to 15 to 20 days.
After that, you will receive rewards after every epochs (every 5 days).

Do I need to pay anything for staking?

If it is the first time ever that you delegate to a pool, 2 ₳ from your wallet will be used as a deposit for saving the delegation certificate on-chain. If you decide one day to undelegate, the 2 ₳ will be returned to you.
When you delegate to a new pool, you only have to pay a one-time transaction fee (typically ~0.2 ₳).

Is there a minimum amount for staking?

There is no minimum amount for staking.
But, in order to be able to delegate to a new pool, you still need to have a wallet with some ADA to pay the one-time transaction fee (typically ~0.2 ₳) and, if it is the first time ever that you delegate to a pool, you must also have 2 ₳ in your wallet that will be used as deposit for saving the delegation certificate on-chain (which will be returned to you if you decide to undelegate).

Is it safe to stake my ADA? Can I lose my ADA?

It is 100% safe, you can never ever loose your ADA through staking because it never leaves your wallet.
You basically only use your right to delegate and indicate which pool you want to support, without actually transferring your ADA. Do not trust anyone asking you to actually transfer you ADA somewhere in order to delegate.

What are the pool's fees / margin / costs ?

There are 2 types of fees for a staking pool: the fixed fee and the variable fee.
Both of the fees apply to the staking rewards of the pool, not to the ADA staked to the pool.
- Fixed fee: fixed amount of ADA received by the pool operator for each epoch that produced a block. The minimum possible fee is 170 ₳ (set by the Cardano foundation), which is the cost used for our stakepool. This cost is taken from the rewards, delegators do not have to pay for it
- Variable fee (margin): variable amount (%) of the total rewards received by the pool operator. For our stakepool, there is a variable fee of 1.5%.
Once the rewards are calculated, and that the fixed fee and variable fee have been automatically deduced, the rest of the rewards are automatically distributed to the delegators.