# Flow Mainnet staking restrictions starting Dec 8th

**URL:** <https://forum.flow.com/t/flow-mainnet-staking-restrictions-starting-dec-8th/2626>\
**Category:** Node Operations\
**Created:** [December 9, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/flow-mainnet-staking-restrictions-starting-dec-8th/2626 "2021-12-09T17:51:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![vishal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/49beb7/32.png) [@vishal](https://forum.flow.com/u/vishal)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/flow-mainnet-staking-restrictions-starting-dec-8th/2626/1 "2021-12-09T17:51:11Z")

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Hello dear node operators,

Starting from next week the following staking actions will be restricted between Tuesday 9:00 AM Pacific to Wednesday 12:00 PM Pacific **every week** as the network transitions from one epoch to the next.

- Staking additional tokens on a node
- Unstaking tokens from a node
- Delegating additional tokens to a node
- Removing delegated tokens from a node

The reason for this is as follows:  
_When the staking auction phase ends during the current epoch E1, the network commits to a set of staked participants for the upcoming epoch E2 (~Tue 9AM PT). After this point, the participants (and their stake) for the upcoming epoch E2 are fixed so further stake modifications are disabled, and the network begins a series of preparation processes for the upcoming epoch E2 (~Tue 9AM PT → ~Wed 12PM PT). When the upcoming epoch E2 begins, staking is re-enabled. These staking operations will take effect in the subsequent epoch E3._  
More [here](https://docs.onflow.org/staking/epoch-preparation/#gatsby-focus-wrapper)

thanks,  
Flow Team