How to Stake and Re-invest $TOPS

To begin staking, make sure you have: ✅ Your connected Edge Device(s) ✅ $TOPS tokens in your wallet ✅ Completed KYC verification ✅ peaq network added to your wallet (e.g., MetaMask) If you haven't bridged your $iG3 to $TOPS, or haven't acquired $TOPS yet, follow this guide: 👉 How to acquire $TOPS 👉 How to bridge $iG3 to $TOPS

1. Step 1: Log in to your iG3 Dashboard

• Go to Dashboard

1. Step 2: Go to the Staking section

• You’ll see your current $TOPS balance.

• Choose which Edge device you want to stake.

• Click “Stake”

1. Step 3: Approve allowance amount.

• Choose how much you want to stake. Check whether the Current allowance is enough.

• If yes, click "Stake" and confirm the staking transaction in your wallet.

• If not, click "Approve" with the amount in your wallet, confirm the approval transaction. Then, click "Stake" and confirm the staking transaction in your wallet.

Done! You’re now staking and earning rewards weekly.

1. Step 1: Log in to your iG3 Dashboard

• Go to Dashboard

1. Step 2: Go to the Staking section

• You’ll see your current staking device.

• Choose which device you want to unstake.

• Click “Request Unstake”

NOTICE:

• Users may unstake at any time.

• Upon unstaking, your staking amount is immediately set to 0 and you will not earn staking bonus for the running epoch.

• The unstaked tokens will be withdrawable after a 7-day unbonding period.

• You can only have 01 unstaking request per wallet at a time, but you can unstake from multiple devices simultaneously. You can also cancel your unstaking request if you change your mind. Once you cancel and submit another request, the unbonding period starts over.

Re-invest = Auto-stake. You can re-invest your weekly compute rewards to continuously boost your earnings.

Option 1: Manual re-invest

• Claim all your weekly compute rewards from your Dashboard > Rewards.

• Go to the Staking section → stake it again.

Option 2: Auto re-invest (recommended)

You can set a % of your weekly $TOPS compute rewards to automatically re-invest.

• On your Dashboard, go to the Rewards section.

• Set your preferred % to re-invest.

• Click “Update Reinvestment", then confirm in your wallet. The system will handle it automatically before every reward payout date.

e.g., Set 50% re-invest, 50% claimable: 50% of your compute reward will automatically go to the staking pool, while you can claim the rest 50% to your wallet.

Notice: If you own more than 1 Edge Device, the % setting applies to all of your connected devices. Please consider this when setting it.