# Staking Proxy

The Polkadot ecosystem has a feature called Proxied Accounts, these are also known as Delegated Authorities in Nova Wallet. You can learn a lot more about Delegated Authorities here: [delegated-authorities-proxies](https://docs.novawallet.io/nova-wallet-wiki/wallet-management/delegated-authorities-proxies "mention")

## Staking Proxies

Staking Proxies will soon replace Stash and Controller accounts, for more details see: [controller-account-deprecation](https://docs.novawallet.io/nova-wallet-wiki/staking/controller-account-deprecation "mention")

Staking Proxies allow you to set up another account as the Delegated Authority for your primary account. This allows you to, for example, set a hot wallet as the Staking Proxy of your Cold Storage account. This means that you can carry out a range of staking-related activities such as changing validators, bonding more tokens, unbonding, and more without having to interact with your Cold Storage account.

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Staking Proxies can ONLY CARRY OUT STAKING RELATED OPERATIONS – they cannot for example conduct balance transfers on behalf of the account that they are proxied to.
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