How To Delegate CPU Resource

Goal

Delegate CPU bandwidth for an account or application.

Before you begin

Make sure you meet the following requirements:

• Familiarize with the cleos system delegatebw command and its parameters.
• Install the currently supported version of cleos.

[[info | Note]] | cleos is bundled with the EOSIO software. Installing EOSIO will also install cleos.

• Ensure the reference system contracts from eosio.contracts repository is deployed and used to manage system resources.
• Understand what an account is and its role in the blockchain.
• Understand CPU bandwidth in an EOSIO blockchain.
• Understand NET bandwidth in an EOSIO blockchain.

Steps

Perform the step below:

Delegate CPU bandwidth from a source account to a receiver account:

cleos system delegatebw <from> <receiver> <stake_net_quantity> <stake_cpu_quantity>

Where from is the account to delegate bandwidth from, receiver is the account to receive the delegated bandwidth, and stake_net_quantity and/or stake_cpu_quantity is the amount of tokens to stake for network (NET) bandwidth and/or CPU bandwidth, respectively.

Some examples are provided below:

• Delegate 0.01 SYS CPU bandwidth from bob to alice:

Example Output

cleos system delegatebw bob alice "0 SYS" "0.01 SYS"

executed transaction: 5487afafd67bf459a20fcc2dbc5d0c2f0d1f10e33123eaaa07088046fd18e3ae  192 bytes  503 us
#         eosio <= eosio::delegatebw            {"from":"bob","receiver":"alice","stake_net_quantity":"0.0000 SYS","stake_cpu_quantity":"0.0100 SYS"...
#   eosio.token <= eosio.token::transfer        {"from":"bob","to":"eosio.stake","quantity":"0.0010 SYS","memo":"stake bandwidth"}
#  bob <= eosio.token::transfer        {"from":"bob","to":"eosio.stake","quantity":"0.0010 SYS","memo":"stake bandwidth"}
#   eosio.stake <= eosio.token::transfer        {"from":"bob","to":"eosio.stake","quantity":"0.0010 SYS","memo":"stake bandwidth"}