# Unstaking and Claiming Rewards

After staking your tokens in the Vaulta Staking Portal, you will start collecting rewards. You can unstake your tokens and collect those rewards after a 21 day unstaking period. This guide will walk you through the steps you need to take to complete this process. 

For those who are familiar with navigating the Vaulta Portal, Unicove, you can navigate directly to these links:

* [Staking Overview](https://unicove.com/en/eos/staking)
* [Unstake Page](https://unicove.com/en/eos/staking/unstake)
* [Claim Rewards Page](https://unicove.com/en/eos/staking/withdraw)

### **✅ What You'll Need Before Getting Started**

Before you get started, you will need to do the following:

* [Set Up an Account](/vaulta-guides/user-guides/getting-started-on-vaulta/wallet-and-account-setup.md)
* [Send Vaulta to Your Account](/vaulta-guides/user-guides/getting-started-on-vaulta/get-vaulta-token.md)
* [Stake Your Vaulta Tokens](/vaulta-guides/vaulta-token/staking.md)

### 1. Navigate to the Unicove Website & Login

First head to the Unicove website at [Unicove.com](https://unicove.com/). Once there, login to the portal by selecting the Connect Wallet button in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Select your wallet and follow the prompts to connect to the portal.

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### 2. Navigate to the Staking Overview Page

Select Staking from the menu on the left hand side of the page.

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### 3. Navigate to the Unstake Page

From the Staking overview page you can view the current staking APR, your staking balance overview, and use the staking calculator. To unstake your tokens, click on the Unstake button.

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### 4. Unstake Your Tokens

Now that you are on the Unstake page, enter the amount of tokens you would like to unstake and click on the Unstake button to sign and finalize your transaction. This starts the 21 day unstaking period that must pass before you can claim your tokens. During this period, rewards will continue to be accumulated.&#x20;

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### 5. Navigate to the Withdraw Page

Fast forward 21 days and you are ready to claim your rewards! 🥳

Follow the steps above to login and navigate to the Staking overview page. From here you will be able to see your Unstaked balance. Click the Withdraw button to navigate to the Withdraw page where you will claim your rewards.

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### 6. Claim Your Rewards

On the Withdraw page click on the Withdraw button, sign and finalize the transaction to claim your rewards.

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### Next Steps

Now that you have learned all about staking, you may want to interact with applications on the Vaulta network. In order to begin using Vaulta DApps you will likely need to acquire resources.&#x20;

Check out the guides below to learn about how to get resources for your account.

* [Manage Resources (CPU/ NET)](/vaulta-guides/user-guides/getting-started-on-vaulta/manage-resources-cpu-net.md)
* [Buy/ Sell RAM](/vaulta-guides/user-guides/getting-started-on-vaulta/buy-sell-ram.md)

### Final Thoughts

You're now a staking master! By following the steps in the Getting Started on Vaulta guide you should have been able to successfully create an account on the Vaulta network, populate that account with Vaulta, stake your Vaulta to begin earning rewards and unstake the Vaulta to claim your rewards.


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