> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.numer.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Atomic Blockchain Staking - URL: https://blog.numer.ai/atomic-blockchain-staking/ - Published: 2026-11-12T18:10:29.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-12T18:10:29.000Z - Description: Atomic Blockchain Staking completes Numerai's agentic stack alongside Unity, Skills, and MCP, enabling AI agents to participate in the full tournament, from research to staking. Explore the new system and watch Chief Tournament Officer Noah Harasz provide a full walkthrough on Out of Sample. - Author: Numerai Engineering Numerai’s Atomic Blockchain Staking system is now fully operational, giving users and AI agents decentralized, atomic control over tournament stakes. Earlier this year, Numerai released [Skills](https://github.com/numerai/example-scripts?tab=readme-ov-file&ref=blog.numer.ai#using-agents) and [MCP](https://docs.numer.ai/numerai-tournament/api?ref=blog.numer.ai#numerai-mcp), giving AI agents the tools to research, train models, and submit predictions autonomously. Since launch, MCP has recorded over 100,000 sessions, while the Skills example scripts have been cloned nearly 700 times in the past two weeks alone. With the launch of [Unity](https://blog.numer.ai/unifying-numerai-and-signals/), agents can now tackle the entire research problem, from sourcing data and engineering features to building predictive models using real stock identifiers. [Atomic Blockchain Staking](https://docs.numer.ai/numerai-tournament/staking?ref=blog.numer.ai) completes the agentic workflow by enabling agents to manage NMR stakes directly on Ethereum. Together, Skills, MCP, Unity, and Atomic Blockchain Staking provide the infrastructure for autonomous AI agents to participate in the full Numerai tournament, from discovering new signals and training models to submitting predictions and allocating stakes. ## The Evolution of Staking Numerai’s staking system has evolved through three versions: **Version 1: Manual Staking.** The original staking system allowed users to control their stakes directly on the blockchain. However, it required users to manually execute staking transactions each round and incurred high Ethereum gas fees for Numerai, sometimes exceeding $10,000 per month. It was not designed to scale to daily tournaments, so we moved to version 2. **Version 2: Continuous Staking.** This version moved stakes off-chain, with NMR held in Numerai-controlled wallets. This simplified staking, reduced operating costs, and supported daily tournament rounds. However, it also introduced stake leverage and made it more difficult to reallocate stakes quickly across models. So, we formulated a final version. **Version 3: Atomic Blockchain Staking.** This combines the decentralized control of V1 with the convenience of V2\. Users can configure automated staking strategies while retaining granular control over how much NMR they allocate to each model and round. Atomic Blockchain Staking simplifies the staking experience. Previously, users had to navigate a complicated interfance with “increase”, “decrease”, “drain”, etc. Now, users simply set their model’s per-round stake and choose whether to stake a constant amount: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/4e/7e/4e7e879a-2a82-421c-bf17-f319f40a01a4/content/images/2026/11/data-src-image-ec058a9d-3089-4cd7-9cf9-ae342fe7b4e6.png) Or, allow payouts to compound into future stake: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/4e/7e/4e7e879a-2a82-421c-bf17-f319f40a01a4/content/images/2026/11/data-src-image-167075f3-7879-432b-b7c5-0dcfcb465f5e.png) By reducing staking to two choices, this version offers Numerai’s most streamlined staking experience yet. Watch the latest episode of Out of Sample for a full walkthrough of Atomic Blockchain Staking with Numerai’s Chief Tournament Officer, Noah Harasz, ahead of Numerai Signals’ planned migration on January 1, 2027. In this Season 1 bonus episode, Noah also discusses tournament design, Signals v3, and the role of AI agents in Numerai’s research infrastructure. ## Completing the Agentic Stack Numerai Skills and MCP give agents the tools to train better models and interact with the tournament infrastructure. Atomic Blockchain Staking extends these capabilities to stake management, allowing agents to dynamically allocate NMR across models from one round to the next. This control is provided at two levels: - The new staking contract allows direct control of stake from a wallet. Just give an agent the keys to a wallet and they can begin staking on models immediately. - The new strategy contract provides automation by storing stake configuration across models and granting Numerai permission to invoke the saved strategy. These levels of abstraction are how the new system can offer both granular control and automation. You can direct your agent to control a wallet directly and manually stake each round. You could use our automation layer to make your staking easy. You could even write your own allocation strategy to provide a more sophisticated automation layer. As part of the Unity transition, Signals will merge with our main tournament on January 1, 2027\. This will complete the ecosystem and give agents across Numerai granular stake management capabilities. This drastically increases the capital allocation functionality of agents, allowing the Meta Model to respond more quickly to the strongest models. ## Decentralizing the Tournament Decentralization has been part of Numerai's vision from the beginning. In the [Numerai Master Plan](https://blog.numer.ai/numerais-master-plan/), Numerai described a future in which artificial intelligence could autonomously train models, submit predictions, stake NMR, and repeat the process indefinitely. Through Numerai CLI, Numerai Tools, and Example Scripts, Numerai has progressively opened up the infrastructure needed to make that vision possible. With Unity, Skills, MCP, and now Atomic Blockchain Staking, AI agents now have the tools to tackle the entire problem: discovering new signals, engineering features, training models, submitting predictions, and managing stakes. All through a decentralized platform operating directly on the blockchain. Next, Numerai plans to introduce Bring Your Own Wallet (BYOW) support, starting with MetaMask, allowing users to manage their NMR and stakes directly through their own wallets. This is the final step to hand over control to the users and is vitally important to eliminating centralized risks like those exploited in [the recent Binance hack](https://forum.numer.ai/t/the-binance-hack/8375?ref=blog.numer.ai). As AI becomes more capable, Numerai is building the infrastructure for a new generation of autonomous researchers to compete, discover alpha, and contribute to a single Meta Model. [Join Numerai](https://numer.ai/onboarding?ref=blog.numer.ai) --- *Out of Sample is an independent community interview series. The host participates in the Numerai platform and receives no compensation for discussing his experience. Guest opinions are their own and do not constitute investment advice or official Numerai guidance.* *Any benchmark, model, or backtested results discussed are illustrative, do not represent actual client performance, and are not indicative of future results. Actual outcomes may differ materially. Discussed tournament and platform changes involve risks and uncertainties and may not produce the expected results.*