Stake and lifecycle
How collateral capacity, validator status, and outstanding obligations govern participation.
What stake backs
In the dashboard, each role's Stake and rewards tab shows its stake and health. You post native ASSET into a separate account for each role with Add stake. The protocol calculates required collateral from the role's total asset notional. Notional is the principal or face value you are responsible for. It is not the sum of future interest payments.
The requirement uses marginal tiers, like income-tax brackets. Each band of notional has its own rate. When your portfolio grows into a higher band, only the amount inside that band uses the higher rate. When an obligation leaves, your requirement falls by the difference between the portfolio requirement before and after the removal.
The requirement is in USD, but you post collateral in ASSET. So if the protocol's ASSET price changes, your stake health changes too, even when your portfolio and balance stay the same.
Health and status answer different questions
Stake health describes collateral capacity for a role. BVID status (the status of your Business Validator identity) describes whether the operator is active, jailed, winding down, wound down, or banned. Your account can have enough collateral and still be blocked by its status or a penalty freeze.
| Health state | Practical meaning |
|---|---|
| Healthy | Meets the configured collateral threshold; other admission and operation checks still apply |
| Degraded | Below the collateral requirement; new volume is restricted and reward weight is reduced |
| Inactive | Below the lower threshold; no ordinary active-participation rewards or new volume |
The dashboard shows No obligations when the role has no portfolio.
Your existing obligations continue when health falls. A top-up or a reduction in your outstanding liabilities can restore capacity. A low balance does not by itself cancel an insurance policy or end an asset-maintenance responsibility.
The protocol also shows price freshness. When the price feed is stale, the dashboard shows Price stale, and the health view keeps the last available price. Withdrawals, reward processing, and similar operations have their own additional freshness checks. Scoring coverage has a specific top-up grace mechanism, so check both the raw ratio and the reported health state.
Price and keeper dependencies
The contract accepts the price that one authorized address submits. It does not fetch prices itself, and it does not compare prices from several sources. The price feeder is an off-chain service. Its source and schedule depend on the deployment.
Oracle guards limit ordinary price steps, update frequency, and maximum price age. The timelock (a governance control that runs changes only after a delay) can freeze the oracle, the on-chain price source. It can also force an update outside the ordinary step and cooldown checks. latest() returns price, timestamp, stale status, and frozen status. It is not a Chainlink AggregatorV3 interface.
A sustained fall in ASSET/USD can reduce the collateral health of many validators at the same time. A keeper is a service that submits routine transactions when they become due. If keepers stop, prices or lifecycle processing can go stale while the chain itself stays reachable. Track price age and transaction results as well as balances. Protocol parameters lists the testnet settings.
Posted and withdrawable balances
Two things limit how much self-stake you can withdraw: the portfolio requirement, and reservations for disputes and provisional penalties. While your BVID is winding down, you cannot withdraw self-stake at all. An IV that is taking over a policy book in a pending auction also cannot withdraw. You cannot withdraw treasury-owned collateral as your own.
A reservation holds back collateral in case a penalty is confirmed. You cannot withdraw the reserved amount, but your health is not calculated as if the slash already happened.
Leaving takes more than withdrawing
A voluntary exit starts a wind-down. Before you can leave, each obligation must end: it matures, another validator takes it over, or a resolution process closes it. You can stop servicing an asset and still have collateral locked for it.
Self-stake withdrawals and treasury undelegation use different paths. The treasury unbonding period does not apply to all of your withdrawals. See Treasury delegation.