How To Delegate Net Resource

Goal

Delegate resource for an account or application

Before you begin

  • Install the currently supported version of cleos
  • Ensure the reference system contracts from eosio.contracts repository is deployed and used to manage system resources

  • Understand the following:

    • What is an account
    • What is network bandwidth
    • What is CPU bandwidth

Steps

Delegate 0.01 SYS network bandwidth from bob to alice

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

You should see something below:

executed transaction: 5487afafd67bf459a20fcc2dbc5d0c2f0d1f10e33123eaaa07088046fd18e3ae  192 bytes  503 us
#         eosio <= eosio::delegatebw            {"from":"bob","receiver":"alice","stake_net_quantity":"0.0100 SYS","stake_cpu_quanti...
#   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"}