🔧How to configure neurons to claim staking rewards

In order to be able to manage the neurons via the ORIGYN dashboard, they need to be correctly configured. All that is needed is to add the user's principal from the dashboard as a hotkey to each of your neuron and register it on the dashboard. This will let the dashboard know that the user is the rightful owner of the neuron. The guide below explains each step of how to add a neuron to the dashboard.

💡Note: It is only possible to add a neuron to one account. If you want to move your neuron from one account to another, remove the neuron from the old account and remove the old hotkey.

As most people use the NNS dApp to manage their neurons, this guide focuses on this workflow.

⚠️ Attention: When logging into the ORIGYN dashboard with the same Internet Identity as you have on the NNS dApp, you will receive a different principal. This is due to the nature of how Internet Identity works. That is why you are conneting your neurons via hotkeys to this dashboard. Learn more about this here.

Add neuron hotkey

1. Login to the ORIGYN Dashboard.
2. Navigate the the accounts page.
3. Scroll down to the "My OGY neurons" section and click on "Add neuron"
4. A modal will appear that shows your principal. Copy your principal and go to the next step.
5. Open a new window and login to the NNS dApp with your Internet Identity which holds your neurons. Go to the "Neuron Staking" section and select the neuron that you want to add. On the neuron's page, scroll down to hotkeys and click on "Add Hotkey". Enter your principal that you copied in step 4.
6. Copy your ORIGYN neuron ID from the NNS dApp.
7. Go back the ORIGYN dashboard and paste your neuron ID into the field of the modal and click on "Confirm".
8. You may need to resfresh the page. The neuron should now appear in your list of neurons 🎉

   
9. If you add multiple neurons, you will see your combined amount of OGY staked above the list of neurons.

Go to the next section to learn how to claim your rewards.