ICP staking with seed phrase and air-gapped computer

Requirements

You can only stake with seed phrase and air-gapped computer if you are already doing ICP custody with seed phrase and air-gapped machine. This page assumes you are successfully doing self-custody of ICP as in that page.

This section assumes you successfully installed the QR tools on your air-gapped computer from 4.0.

In this section, we need to “bridge the air gap.” This means that we will continue to perform the sensitive operations within the air-gapped computer, but we will use a networked smartphone’s QR code scanner to send the messages from the air-gapped computer to the Internet Computer.

Terminology

To “stake ICP” and to “create a neuron” are the same activity so they are used interchangeably.

Basic steps

Summary of steps

1. Send ICP to your ledger account number
2. Create a neuron
3. Set dissolve delay of neuron