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Once you’re delegated, the work shifts from opening the position to managing it well. This guide covers claiming, compounding, redelegating, and exiting — including the timing edge case that can silently cost you a round’s rewards.

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Rewards accrue automatically

If your orchestrator stays active and keeps calling reward(), your pending earnings update in protocol state on their own. You don’t need to “collect every round” for accrual to happen. What you do manage is when to checkpoint those earnings, whether to stay, and when to exit.

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Claim your earnings

From the Explorer: connect your wallet → open your account page → Claim Earnings → sign. This calls claimEarnings(), moving accrued rewards into your bonded balance.
Claim late in the round. The protocol records lastClaimRound when claimEarnings() runs. If your orchestrator has not yet called reward() for the current round when you claim, you can skip that round’s rewards and fees entirely. The Explorer may not warn you. Safe default: claim after your orchestrator has already called reward() for the round.

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Compound your position

Claiming increases your bonded balance, so future rewards are earned on a larger base. If you intend to stay delegated, compounding is usually the default. There’s no forced schedule — pick a cadence that fits your position size and the small gas cost of acting on Arbitrum. Not claiming for many rounds doesn’t forfeit rewards, but it delays compounding.

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Redelegate to switch operators

Redelegation moves your stake to a different orchestrator without the full unbonding wait. Use it when the problem is the operator:
  • they start missing reward calls,
  • commission terms become unattractive,
  • they drop out of the active set,
  • you want to move away from an over-concentrated operator.
Redelegation also triggers earnings checkpointing. Moving at the start of a round, before your current operator has called reward(), can create the same skipped-round problem as a mistimed claim. Move late in the round when possible.

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Unbond and withdraw to exit

Full exit is a different path from switching — use it when you want liquid tokens back. 
bond() → [Bonded] → unbond() → [Unbonding] → (wait the unbonding period) → [Withdrawable] → withdrawStake()
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            └──────────────────────────── rebond() ───────────────────────────┘
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Initiate unbonding

Start unbonding from your Explorer account page. You can unbond part of your balance and leave the rest bonded.
2

Wait the unbonding period

The on-chain unbonding period is currently 7 rounds — verify the live value in Protocol parameters.
3

Withdraw

Return once the position is withdrawable and withdraw to your wallet.
Changed your mind during unbonding? rebond() cancels the exit and returns the position to bonded status.

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Keep an eye on your position

At a minimum, periodically check: active/inactive status, reward-call consistency, rewardCut and feeShare changes, and any governance proposals affecting delegator economics.

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Common questions

No — earnings are accounted against your position, not abandoned with the old orchestrator. The risk is timing, not loss of ownership.
Yes. Part of the balance can enter unbonding while the rest stays bonded and earning.
Yes. Rebonding cancels the exit and returns that stake to bonded status.
There’s no protocol-enforced minimum. The practical question is whether the position justifies the gas and effort of managing it.

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Next

Protocol parameters

Confirm the live unbonding period before you act.

Choose an orchestrator

Re-evaluate operators before redelegating.