Delegate your tokens to validators on Cosmos chains to earn staking rewards using CosmJS.

Prerequisites

Setup CosmJS Libraries

Stake Tokens

import { useCosmosClient } from "./useCosmosClient";
import { coins } from "@cosmjs/stargate";
import { MsgDelegate } from "cosmjs-types/cosmos/staking/v1beta1/tx";

function StakeTokens() {
  const { signingClient } = useCosmosClient("https://rpc.cosmos.network");

  const delegateToValidator = async () => {
    if (!signingClient) return;

    const accounts = await signingClient.signer.getAccounts();
    const delegator = accounts[0].address;
    const validator = "cosmosvaloper1..."; // Replace with validator address
    
    const msgDelegate = {
      typeUrl: "/cosmos.staking.v1beta1.MsgDelegate",
      value: MsgDelegate.fromPartial({
        delegatorAddress: delegator,
        validatorAddress: validator,
        amount: {
          denom: "uatom",
          amount: "1000000", // 1 ATOM
        },
      }),
    };

    const fee = {
      amount: coins(5000, "uatom"),
      gas: "250000",
    };

    try {
      const result = await signingClient.signAndBroadcast(
        delegator,
        [msgDelegate],
        fee,
        "Staking with Para"
      );
      
      console.log("Delegation successful:", result.transactionHash);
    } catch (error) {
      console.error("Delegation failed:", error);
    }
  };

  return (
    <button onClick={delegateToValidator}>Stake 1 ATOM</button>
  );
}

Next Steps