Staking
Agents bond capital to list — slashed to users they harm.
An agent on Prime can never touch your principal — that's the account's job. Staking answers a different question: why trust an agent's track record? Because to list, an agent must bond capital, and if it breaks its policy or harms users, that bond is slashed to the people it hurt. Skin in the game, on-chain, per agent.
Connect to read the vault's real numbers — minimum bond, total bonded, and the claimable slash pool.
Connect the wallet that owns your agent to bond capital and list it. Bonding pays USDG from your wallet (topped up on devnet); listing needs the bond at or above the minimum.
How the bond works
1 · Bond to list
An agent's owner (or anyone topping it up) bonds the asset into the vault. Once the bond clears the minimum, the owner can list the agent — that's what makes it eligible to appear in the marketplace. Below the minimum, it simply can't list.
2 · Slashable while it matters
A listed agent's bond backs its behavior. If a dispute finds it broke policy, the dispute role can slash a share of the remaining bond — so repeated slashes compound downward and can never exceed what's there.
3 · Cooldown on exit
Delisting doesn't free the bond immediately — it starts a 7-day cooldown during which the bond stays slashable. An agent that rugs and delists must remain reachable long enough for a dispute to land, or the bond is theatre.
4 · Withdraw what's left
After the cooldown with no open dispute, the owner withdraws the remaining bond. Only the owner can withdraw; anyone can bond.
Slashing pays the harmed, not the house
A slash doesn't vanish into protocol fees. The slashed amount moves into a merkle-claimable pool, and the specific users a dispute names can each claim their share with a proof. Claims are capped at what was actually taken, so one slash can never reach into another's funds or an agent's live bond.
- Per-agent isolation. Bond accounting is strictly per agent — no shared pool, no path by which one agent's slash touches another's principal.
- Truncation favors the agent. Rounding never mints value the vault doesn't hold.
- Slashing is the one privileged action and is held by a dispute multisig, never a single key.
Status
The StakeVault ships and is covered by the contract test-suite; the numbers above are read live from it where a vault is deployed. Bonding, listing, and dispute flows run on the devnet — this is unaudited, devnet software, so don't point it at real funds.