# The Open Network (TON)

On the `/stake/ton` page of the dashboard you can check staking information about the network and stake your liquid TON as well as your TON in a vesting contract in a few clicks with an intuitive onboarding.

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The Kiln Dashboard offers two TON staking options: pooled contracts with a 10 TON minimum stake, and single nominator pools requiring at least 700k TON. For more details about TON mechanics, please refer to [this page](https://www.notion.so/o/3JqKgM02UH49MGgnim1D/s/nye3yqpuOzdfrtWAlwng/~/changes/1364/kiln-products/validators/protocols/the-open-network-ton).

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For Single nominator pools, they should be pre-deployed by Kiln (Contact your CSM in order to get this setup).
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Prior to staking the account used to stake must have done any transaction before staking in order to be activated. If your wallet is new please make a small transfer of TON to any address in order to activate the account. If this step is not done the transaction will fail.
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### Staking using TON Connect

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Easily connect your TON wallet through TON Connect

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Easily connect your TON wallet through TON Connect.
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### Staking using Fordefi

1. Connect your Fordefi wallet by selecting TON Connect as your connection method (see in [#staking-using-ton-connect](#staking-using-ton-connect "mention"))
2. In the list that appears (see in [#staking-using-ton-connect](#staking-using-ton-connect "mention")) , click Tonkeeper.
3. Choose **Browser extension** from the Tonkeeper options

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4. In the list that appears in the Chrome extension, choose the vault that you want to connect and click connect.

### Staking liquid TON using Fireblocks

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Transactions using the Fireblocks Raw Signing API are only enabled on Kiln Dashboard per request for organizations that have passed a security review from the Kiln and Fireblocks team regarding your API user setup. [More informations](https://docs.kiln.fi/v1/integrations/custody-platforms/stake-from-fireblocks#stake-from-kiln-dashboard-using-fireblocks-raw-signing-api). \
**To enable this for your organisation, please get in touch with the Kiln team.**
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Once you have [setup your Fireblocks Vault](https://docs.kiln.fi/v1/kiln-products/connect/sdk/getting-started#setup-fireblocks), you can use your credentials to stake TON using your Fireblocks Vault.

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After connecting and selecting your Fireblocks vault, simply choose the amount and click "stake." Before signing your transaction, decode it in [Minitel](https://ton.minitel.app/) or your preferred decoding tool. Carefully review and confirm that the decoded transaction details match your intended action.

In Minitel, you can paste your transaction's raw message content, retrievable from your Fireblocks console, to decode it.

For a complete walkthrough, check out the demo below

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### Staking TON from a vesting contract

If you are the owner of TON in a vesting contract, you have the ability to stake your locked TON from the contract to a single nominator pool or the pooled contract. The conditions for this to be possible are:

* **Single nominator pool:**&#x20;
  * You must be the owner of the vesting contract
  * The single nomination pool owner must be the vesting contract address
  * The single nomination pool address must be whitelisted on the contract. This is to be done by the vesting contract sender (the wallet that created the contract).&#x20;
* **Pooled contract:**&#x20;
  * You must be the owner of the vesting contract.
  * The Ton Whales pool address must be whitelisted on the vesting contract by the contract sender

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### Fireblocks Raw Signing Notes:

Some notes about Fireblocks raw signing: due to technical limitations in Fireblocks API, the connection goes through Kiln's Fireblocks proxy

1. No Fireblocks account information or associated secrets are stored within any of Kiln's services, including our dashboard
2. We have ensured that no logs capture this sensitive data
3. The operational design guarantees that these secrets are transmitted directly to the Fireblocks API, without any interim storage
4. Please note that upon reloading the dashboard or selecting the 'disconnect wallet' option, the system terminates access to any Fireblocks-related information

#### Device approval

Please note that while we can sign transactions using the Fireblocks API, the reporting capabilities on your approval device are incomplete until this asset is fully supported by Fireblocks.

Expect to see only the metadata added by the dashboard in the transaction request.&#x20;

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