vDOT characteristics
- Min. staking = 0.5 DOT
- vDOT unstaking period: 0~28 days (flexible)
- OpenGov: Yes
- Used bridges: XCM
- Ledger support: Yes (See the Ledger support announcement)
- Reward fee: 10% (applies to rewards only)
- Unstake fee: 0.1% (applies to unstake amount)
There are 2 options to unstake DOT from vDOT:
- Full unstaking request (you retain full vDOT value)
- Lightning mode (you swap at market price, most of the time you won't get full value)

Unstake vDOT
Go to the Unstake tab to visualize the vDOT unstaking queue, click on “Total unstaking”. The unstaking queue will give you an raw estimation of unstaking period: the fewer in the queue, the quicker your unstaking request will proceed.

Unstake tab - vDOT Total Unstaking queue
- On the vDOT page, click the toggle button in the middle of the right panel so that vDOT is at the top

vDOT staking page - Unstaking