Are My Staked Coins Locked — Can I Still Trade or Withdraw Them?

Yes. Staked coins are locked for the duration of the staking period, so while they are staked you cannot trade, sell, send, or withdraw them. This lock applies through every stage of the flow: Staking Active, Bonding In-Progress, Un-bonding Requested, and Un-bonding In-Progress. The coins only become available (liquid) again once they reach Un-bonding Done status, at which point they return to your spendable wallet. This is not a Pluang-specific restriction so much as how proof-of-stake works — your coins are committed to help secure a blockchain network through its validators, and networks impose bonding and unbonding lock-up periods on both entering and exiting a stake. Because of this, staked coins are best treated as illiquid for the time they are staked. Any portion of a coin you do not stake stays fully available for trading and withdrawal, so you can always choose to stake only part of a holding if you want to keep some liquid.

• What you cannot do while staked. Coins in Staking Active, Bonding In-Progress, Un-bonding Requested, or Un-bonding In-Progress cannot be traded (bought or sold), sent to an external wallet, or withdrawn (cashed out). All three actions are blocked until the coins are fully released.
• What you can still do. You can always view your staked balance and its status, and coins in Staking Active continue to earn staking rewards. Only the ability to move or trade the coins is restricted — visibility and reward accrual are not.
• Lock-up is a network rule, not just a Pluang setting. Bonding is the network-mandated wait before your stake becomes active, and unbonding is the network-mandated wait after you request to unstake, before coins return. Pluang cannot shorten these periods because they are set by the blockchain itself.
• Plan for the illiquidity. Because you can't exit instantly, only stake what you won't need to trade or withdraw in the near term. If the coin's price moves during the unbonding period, you remain exposed to it but cannot sell until the coins are released — a normal consideration with any staking.
• Unstaked coins are never affected. If you own 1 ETH and stake only 0.5 ETH, the other 0.5 ETH stays in your regular wallet and is fully available to trade or withdraw at any time. Staking locks only the exact quantity you commit.
• Where staked coins appear. They show in a dedicated Staking section under the crypto asset in your Pluang portfolio, kept separate from your available (liquid) balance so you can always tell which coins are locked and which are free to use.

Related questions:

Q: What happens if I want to trade my staked coins urgently?
You cannot trade them directly while they are staked — you must first submit an unstaking request. That starts the unbonding period, which is set by the network, not by Pluang. Only after unbonding finishes and the status reaches Un-bonding Done do the coins return to your available balance, where you can then trade, send, or withdraw them. There is no way to skip the unbonding wait, so factor it in before you commit coins to a stake.

Q: Are my coins available to trade while they are unbonding (Un-bonding In-Progress)?
No. Coins remain locked throughout the entire unbonding period, not just while actively staked. Submitting an unstaking request does not immediately free them; they stay unavailable until unbonding is fully complete and the status shows Un-bonding Done. During this window you can see the coins in your Staking section but cannot trade, send, or withdraw them, so plan around the full unbonding duration.

Q: Can I partially unstake — for example, unstake only half of my staked amount?
Partial unstaking may be available depending on the coin, so check the options shown on the staking page in the Pluang app. Each network can set its own rules, including any minimum unstake quantity, so what's possible for one coin may differ for another. Whatever portion you do unstake still has to pass through the network's unbonding period before those specific coins become available again.

Q: Does staking affect my non-staked crypto holdings?
No. Only the exact quantity you choose to stake is locked. Every other coin in your wallet — including the unstaked remainder of the same asset — stays fully liquid and available to trade, send, or withdraw. This is why staking part of a holding is a common approach: you earn rewards on the staked portion while keeping the rest free to use whenever you need it.

Q: Do locked coins earn rewards during the bonding and unbonding periods?
Staking rewards accrue while coins are in Staking Active status. During the initial bonding period your stake is not yet active, so rewards begin only once bonding completes; during the unbonding period after you request to unstake, the coins are on their way out and no longer earning. In short, the coins are locked across all these stages, but reward accrual applies specifically to the active staking phase.