This guide will walk you through the process of delegating your SPO wallet to a dRep.
Last updated
UPDATED: 1/16/2025
Tested with CLI version: 10.1.1.0
You have four delegation options:
Delegate to a dRep (dRep ID will be needed)
Always Abstain: this option signals your intention not to participate in the voting process, indicating a choice to abstain from voting
Always No Confidence: this option signifies your lack of trust in the current constitutional committee, indicating a vote of no confidence in their decisions
Delegating to a script based dRep
If you want to delegate to a dRep you will need their dRep ID:
You will probably use resources like or to find a dRep and read about them. Once you are ready to select a dRep, you can copy the dRep ID
In this example we copied dRep ID:
⚠️ON AIR GAPPED MACHINE
With the dRep ID noted and copied move to your Air Gapped Machine.
Please note we keep our stake keys in the $NODE_HOME folder for this example, please change path as needed
Next generate the vote-deleg.cert running the following command
Replace drep1... on the --drep-key-hash line with your selected dRep ID.
⚠️Other Delegation options if you don't want to select a dRep:
Now we will take the "vote-deleg.cert" file and copy to a warm machine to build the transaction. In this sample we will copy all our files to $NODE_HOME directory.
We will find a UTxO (preferably with only ADA) to use to submit the transaction. Assuming you have a payment.addr file, run the following command. Otherwise swap $(cat payment.addr) with your payment address
Replace utxo on the --tx-in line with your selected utxo. Also if you don't have payment.addr file, swap $(cat payment.addr) with your payment address in the --change-address line
Copy your vote-tx.raw file over to you air gapped machine to sign. In this sample we will copy all our files to $NODE_HOME directory.
⚠️ON AIR GAPPED MACHINE
Copy the "tx.signed" file to a warm machine to submit the transaction. In this sample we will copy all our files to $NODE_HOME directory
If you are getting errors, please double check paths. This guide was done using the typical paths and file names from the coincashew original guide.
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Wait a few minutes for your transaction to make it on-chain. Then copy your stake address and go to and search it to see if your dRep delegation was registered
