Introduction
Metacenter is an open risk feed for Stacks Bitcoin Staking (PoX-5).
Metacenter measures how safe the PoX-5 reward flow is, from public data only, and publishes the results three ways: a dashboard, a public JSON API, and Clarity contracts that other contracts can call.
Live figures on this page were read at Bitcoin block 967,690 (2026-09-19 09:44 UTC). The latest distribution is 286 (cycle 143, calculation height 967,399).
What it answers
- Can the reward pool pay what bonds are owed? Coverage is 16.68× mirrored (distribution 286).
- How far can the pool fall before bond yield is hit? Headroom is 94.0% mirrored (distribution 286).
- What backs a shortfall? The reserve holds 1.527 BTC (152,669,889 sats) mirrored (distribution 286), but the current contract cannot pay bonds from it.
- What do STX-only stakers earn? 6.67% mirrored (distribution 286), annualised in BTC terms.