Plain guides to the questions people ask about Namada and NAM, each written from Namada's own documentation, specifications and posts, with a numbered source after every paragraph.
No live figure is typed into a guide: where a number changes, such as the staking rate, the unstaking wait or the price, the guide links the page of this site that shows it now, with its source and age.
Namada is a proof-of-stake network built for private transfers of many assets. What NAM pays for, how the network is run, and which wallets work with it.
Where NAM trades, how a swap on Osmosis works, and how NAM moves between Osmosis and a Namada wallet, transparent or shielded, step by step.
Staking NAM step by step: picking a validator, when a stake starts to count, claiming rewards, the risk of slashing, and how unstaking and withdrawal work.
What the shielded pool hides and what stays public, how shielding and unshielding work, what viewing keys are for, and how shielded rewards are paid.
Who can propose a change to Namada, who votes and how, when a proposal passes, and how public goods funding pays for work on the ecosystem.
How much NAM existed at launch, where new NAM comes from (staking rewards, public goods funding, shielded rewards) and which settings can change it.
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