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# Delegation and PoX-5

PoX-5 has no delegation. You stake STX to a pool's signer-manager contract instead.

PoX-5 has no delegation. Under Stacking (pox-4), you called `delegate-stx` to let a pool operator lock your STX. Under PoX-5, you stake to the pool's signer-manager contract yourself, with the `stake` function of the `pox-5` contract.

The effect for you:

* Your STX stays in your account and is locked there.
* You choose the duration, from 1 to 96 cycles.
* You can unstake or switch pools yourself on app.leather.io.

See [Pooled staking](/stacking-and-sbtc-reference/pooled-stacking.md) and [Stake STX with a pool](/stacking/join-stacking-pool.md).