Delegate energy
Delegating TRON energy points staked energy at another address. Learn locks, undelegate, rentals, and why your seed is never required.
Definition
To delegate energy is to point energy minted from your staked TRX at another T-address for a lock period. The receiver’s EnergyLimit rises. Your TRX stays staked on your account. The receiver does not own the TRX and usually does not sign anything to receive the resource.
Undelegate, after the lock, returns the energy to you and drops the receiver’s Limit. That drop is expiry from the receiver’s point of view.
How it appears on-chain
DelegateResource (energy) from A to B, then B’s getaccountresource EnergyLimit increases. Explorers label these as resource delegate transactions, not as TRX transfers. A TRX transfer is a different object — useful as a rental payment, useless as proof of energy.
Locks prevent undelegate until they elapse. During the lock, “cannot undelegate” is expected. After the lock, undelegate should work unless you already began an incompatible unstake.
How this checker shows it
The delegated-energy checker is for seeing whether Limit is homegrown or borrowed. The rental checker is the same physics with a vendor story attached. Neither tool delegates for you.
TronLink’s resource tab often shows energy from others. Reconcile that row with the public read before you sign USDT on borrowed energy.
Common confusion
Delegation does not require the receiver’s seed. Flows that demand it are theft. Delegation is also not a token approval. Connect-and-approve DApps that claim to credit energy are wearing the wrong costume.
Borrowed energy expires. People who treat a rental as a permanent EnergyLimit meet the expired-delegation problem the first time they send USDT the next morning.
Related mechanics
Stake 2.0 mints what you delegate. Rent is paid delegation. Unfreeze/unstake is how the delegator eventually recovers TRX, after undelegate and unlock. USDT still spends the receiver’s remaining energy, not the delegator’s, while the loan is active.
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FAQ
What does delegate energy mean?
Point energy from your staked TRX at another address for a lock period so their EnergyLimit rises.
Does the receiver need to sign?
Typically no. Be suspicious of DApps that require the receiver to sign to “accept energy.”
Is rental the same as delegation?
A real rental is a paid delegation. If there is no DelegateResource, there was no rental.
Can I undelegate during the lock?
No. Wait for the lock. That is the cannot-undelegate problem when people try anyway.
Does delegation send TRX to the receiver?
No. TRX stays staked on the delegator. Only the resource meter moves.
Should I give my seed so someone can delegate to me?
Never. They can delegate to your public T-address without the seed.
Does this site delegate energy?
No. Public reads only.