# Glossary

* **Service Fee**: A charge levied by service providers on the rewards received by their staking pools.
* **APR (Annual Percentage Rate)**: The yearly interest rate.
* **Delegation Cap**: The upper limit on the amount of funds a staking pool is authorized to accept.
* **Staking Pool**: A contractual system designed to aggregate funds for the purpose of staking.
* **Staking Provider**: An entity operating a staking pool and facilitating the staking of funds.
* **Unbond**: The process of withdrawing funds to the original account following a ten-epoch unbonding period.
* **Unstake**: Expressing the intention to make staked or delegated funds accessible after a ten-epoch unbonding period.
* **Delegate Rewards**: Earnings generated by locked funds in delegation contracts. These earnings can either be claimed or redelegated.
* **Stake Rewards**: Income derived from locking funds to support validator nodes, enhancing network security. Rewards may be claimed or reinvested.
* **Delegate**: Supporting network security by allocating a minimum of 3000 ONE towards the OneFinity Community Delegation contract.
* **Stake**: Promoting network integrity by delegating a minimum of 100 ONE (**To Be Determined**) to a staking provider overseeing validator nodes.
* **Validate**: Contributing to the network's operations by managing a validator node, crucial for relaying and validating information.
* **Observer**: A non-active network participant, serving as a conduit for reading and relaying information.
* **Validator**: A network node that has staked a minimum of 3000 ONE along with acquiring a Validator NFT to actively engage in transaction processing and the consensus mechanism, thereby safeguarding the network and accruing protocol and transaction fee-based rewards.
* **Node**: A computational platform or server running the OneFinity client, tasked with the relay of messages received from peer nodes.
* **Address**: A wallet's public key, adhering to the bech32 format outlined in BIP 0173, typically beginning with`erd1.` Example: one6a7clms4dwyjmxzlxey2pmygvxdal4q76pdymzhj9xzjyxns000qgy5w2j