# Let’s talk about Stake Weight 👀

**URL:** https://governance.walletconnect.network/t/let-s-talk-about-stake-weight/1141
**Category:** General
**Created:** [February 9, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://governance.walletconnect.network/t/let-s-talk-about-stake-weight/1141 "2025-02-09T20:41:17Z")
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### Author: ![WalletConnect](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/governance.walletconnect.network/walletconnect/32/92_2.png) [@WalletConnect](https://governance.walletconnect.network/u/WalletConnect)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://governance.walletconnect.network/t/let-s-talk-about-stake-weight/1141/1 "2025-02-09T20:41:17Z")

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1/ When you stake WCT in the WalletConnect Network you have to lock your tokens for a period of time…

It can be 2 weeks, 1 month, 1 year or even 2 years ⏰

The longer you lock your tokens the more stake weight you have!

2/ For simplicity let’s refer to Stake Weight as “stWCT”

For 1000 WCT locked for 2 years you have 500 stWCT

For 1000 WCT locked for 1 year you have 250 stWCT

For 1000 WCT locked for 1 month you have 20 stWCT

For 1000 WCT locked for 2 weeks you have 10 stWCT

3/ This is important because it affects both…

Staking Rewards → the more stake weight the more rewards you can claim

Governance Voting → the more stake weight the more voting power you have

4/ Right now there is a Governance vote active with 1M stWCT out of the total 12M stWCT 💪

That means more than 8% all stake weight has already vote in the first proposal!

Go to vote.walletconnect.network to cast your vote on the UX Council 👇

[snapshot.box/#/s:walletconn…](https://snapshot.box/#/s:walletconnect.eth/proposal/0xaa1650813d0c5da792cf52a02d4c01e761ba25eaa6030bf088e7386e0d9630dd)

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