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# Pooled staking

Pooled staking combines your STX with other stakers in a pool's signer-manager contract and pays rewards in sBTC.

Pooled staking combines your STX with the STX of other stakers under one pool. The pool runs a Stacks signer and a signer-manager contract.

* You stake STX to the pool's signer-manager. The STX stays in your account, locked.
* The protocol calculates rewards per staker and credits them to the signer-manager, in sBTC.
* The pool keeps its fee and pays out the rest, or you claim it, depending on the pool.
* A pool needs at least 50,000 STX staked in total to earn rewards for a cycle. There is no protocol minimum per staker; each pool sets its own.

To stake with a pool, see [Stake STX with a pool](/stacking/join-stacking-pool.md).