# Delegated Staking Settings

# Overview

Gateway operators can choose to allow other people to stake tokens on their gateway. This is called “delegated staking”, and it increases the number of tokens staked for a given gateway. The additionally staked tokens result in a greater stakeWeight for the gateway - increasing it’s likelihood chosen as an observer and potentially receive additional rewards for a given epoch (assuming that the gateway’s observer is working properly). To incentivize this, you can set a portion of your gateway and observer rewards to be given to the people who stake on your gateway.

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