Tutorials for acquiring, managing, and staking ICP

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The governance of the Internet Computer depends on people staking their ICP and voting on proposals.

To do this, there are four steps (each with different sets of options):

  1. Buy/Sell ICP
  2. Choose a custody method for your ICP
  3. Stake your ICP by creating neurons
  4. Vote on NNS proposals with your neurons

Acquire ICP

To get started, you first need to acquire ICP tokens. You can do this buying them in an exchange or by having someone you send you ICP.

Exchanges

You can buy/sell ICP at the following exchanges:

Seed Round Contributors

Seed round participants who wish to claim their neurons should first see: How-To: Claim neurons for seed participants.

Custody

Custody is the act of managing your ICP. There are many options, each with different security and usability trade-offs.

For a summary of the range of options available to you depending on your comfort level, see ICP custody options.

Staking

Once you decide on your custody, staking is the action of locking ICP within a neuron with a dissolve delay. By staking you can vote on NNS Proposals and collect NNS rewards. There are many options for staking, each with different security and usability trade-offs. See ICP staking options.

Voting

Voting is the act of voting on NNS proposals using neurons.

ICP voting options

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