# Guide: How to stake ADA

### &#x20;<a href="#delegating-ada-to-a-stake-pool" id="delegating-ada-to-a-stake-pool"></a>

**To delegate your ADA cryptocurrency to a stake pool:**

Yoroi is quicker to set up than Daedalus. The following steps explain how to delegate using Yoroi.

1. 1\.

   Install Yoroi from your app store
2. 2\.

   Click on the **Delegation (Simple)** tab.
3. 3\.

   Find a pool where you want to delegate your stake.
4. 2\.

   Type your spending password.
5. 3\.

   Click the **DELEGATE** button.
6. 4\.

   ​ Congratulations! Rewards will start showing up in two epochs (each epoch is five days in duration). Check your rewards using the **Dashboard** tab.

### &#x20;<a href="#monitoring-your-rewards" id="monitoring-your-rewards"></a>

To learn more about your pool and their performance, use these amazing community created tools.

* ​[Cardano PoolTool](https://pooltool.io/) - The most comprehensive staking statistics for Cardano on the web
* ​[AdaStat ](https://adastat.net/en/)- Statistics for pool operators and ada holders

### &#x20;<a href="#telegram-bots-for-real-time-alerts" id="telegram-bots-for-real-time-alerts"></a>
