So as concern is staking on Autonity, if you want to stake on Autonity, first you have to acquire
the Liquid Neutron (LNTN) and Neutron tokens from an exchange, or however, means you want to get it.Once you are done with that You want to choose a validator.
Criteria for choosing a validator
First you want to check the state of the validator. Is the validator in an active state, that is, is it proposing block already or is a potential active candidate, that is, he is in queue, he has to fulfill the conditions but is not yet among those that can propose block. Or the person has been paused. So maybe the validator for whatever reason has paused some persons. Or the validator has been changed. The validator maybe did not keep the uptime or changed or maybe acted against network interest and people were changed by signing bad blocks. That is one of the criteria you should look for when choosing the validator.
The next thing you want to check is their rate, the rate that they charge. The validator should charge money. If the validator is charging zero percent, the validator is not Santa Claus. So they should charge some amount of money and all that. And if the validator is charging 100 percent commission, so that means that you, that is staking with the validator, you get nothing. So you are basically wasting your time and money by staying with such a person. I think you should choose validators that are between zero to ten percent commission.
The next thing you want to check is the validator uptime. If you may say, the validator does not have much uptime. I think 99 percent should be okay from the validator. ALso you want to check the ratio of how many tokens the validator has bonded. That shows how much token that has been delegated to him.
If a person is putting, let's say for example, wants to do a business and he has deposited a hundred thousand and then what the other people have deposited is 100 million, such a person, he will not attain the best interest of the network. If he has a hundred million deposited, you know that your hundred thousand that you deposited with him is save. So you want to check the ratio. To see if it’s actually proportionate.
Now other things you can look out for are their social media platforms. You should not stake with a random validator. A validator should contribute to their ecosystem, the validator should be someone that is putting out content, helping with the community and others. They should be publicly known people. And then there are also other photos that you can check.
So once you are able to choose the validator you are going to be with, then you click sign. Now mind you, be careful of the unbounding time. And also choose what kind of staking you want. Is it the native staking that locks up your token or liquid staking? So both has their pro and their cons. And so that's basically the autumn stuff.