Delegate

To enable rewards withdrawal

Cardano requires that stakers either:

• delegate their governance voting power to a delegated representative or
• explicitly abstain from governance voting.

The /delegate endpoint explicitly sets wallet addresses to abstain, and includes both stake delegation and vote delegation (AlwaysAbstain) certificates for every response. For first-time delegation from a wallet, a StakeRegistration certificate will also be included.

Network

• Type: string
• Enum: required
• Allowed: mainnet, preprod

Delegator Address

• Type: string
• Required: Yes

Validator Address

• Type: string
• Required: Yes
• Description: Validator address / Pool ID

Delegate Transaction

201

Response

• Type: object
• Data: object

Network

• Type: string
• Enum: Network to stake on.
• Allowed: mainnet, preprod

Unsigned Transaction Serialized

• Type: string

Signing Payload

• Type: string

Error Codes

• 400 Bad Request
• 422 Unsupported Network

Example Curl Command

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.figment.io/cardano/delegate \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: your-api-key-here' \
     --data '{
  "network": "mainnet"
}'

Example Response

{
  "data": {
    "network": "preprod",
    "unsigned_transaction_serialized": "unsigned_transaction_serialized",
    "signing_payload": "signing_payload"
  }
}