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# For Stakers

This section is for stakers: anyone staking stXRP into the Firelight protocol to back coverage and earn protocol emissions.

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Staking is **permissionless**, anyone can stake FXRP. (Enabling cover, by contrast, is permissioned to institutions in the MVP.)
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### What you'll find here

* [Staking Overview](/for-stakers/staking-overview.md) explains what staking FXRP does and what you receive in return.
* [Emission Mechanics](/for-stakers/emission-mechanics.md) base rate emissions, protocol-related rewards and how Firelight Points fit in.
* [Risk and Exposure](/for-stakers/risk-and-exposure.md) describes what a staker is backing, how slashing works, and how staked capital converts into coverage capacity and leverage.
* [Deployments and Withdrawals](/for-stakers/deployments-and-withdrawals.md) walks through activation, the unstaking window, and the exit flow.

### What to know before staking

Once coverage is live on mainnet, all staked capital in the vault backs coverage and is slashable. Slashing only occurs if a validated claim exhausts the First-Loss Buffer. Even then it is pro-rata across all positions, and the amount is fixed at the time the slash instruction is generated. In exchange for this exposure, stakers earn protocol-related rewards alongside the underlying stXRP base rate emissions.

Rewards come from two sources:

* The underlying stXRP base rate emissions
* Protocol-related rewards funded by program operators and protocol emissions

### How to participate

1. Obtain stXRP: stake XRP via FXRP on Flare. The same flow Firelight launched with in Phase 1 (see [Deployments and Withdrawals](/for-stakers/deployments-and-withdrawals.md) for the prerequisites).
2. Stake FXRP into the Firelight protocol through the protocol interface.
3. Once the deployment clears screening and becomes active, rewards begin accruing.
4. To exit, initiate an unstake. Your stXRP is redeemed and your FXRP becomes withdrawable at the end of the cover period following the one in which you unstaked.

Additional assets beyond stXRP are on the roadmap for future versions.


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