Staked TRX wallet

What is Staked TRX (STRX)?

STRX is a TRON-side token representing TRX that has been committed to staking, and to understand what you are holding it helps to know how staking works on TRON in the first place. Freezing TRX there is not only about network security: staked TRX produces bandwidth or energy, the two resources that pay for activity on the chain, and it carries voting weight for super representative elections. A liquid receipt token makes that committed TRX transferable while the underlying stake stays locked, and unwinding it runs into TRON's unfreeze waiting period rather than being instant.

Holding mechanics on TRON differ from other chains in ways that surprise newcomers. A TRON address has to be activated before it can receive tokens, and that activation costs TRX. Sending a TRC-20 token consumes energy, and when an address has no energy of its own the network burns TRX to cover it, which can make a single transfer noticeably more expensive than a plain TRX send. There is no separate gas token: everything comes out of TRX.

Supported networks in Tangem (1): TRON.

Practically that means STRX should never be the only thing in the wallet. In Tangem the TRX that pays for energy sits in the same wallet as the STRX, both visible in one place, and a transfer is approved by tapping the card against the phone. Keeping the fee coin and the staked receipt together is what stops a TRON position from becoming stuck.