Delegating additional stake to solana in the existing public key

Question

Hello I have a stake account for Solana here is the link

https://explorer.solana.com/address/4EZRbSFYUQeuNCtY3Tv5tqprpTk9Ak7CZPzPsXKm1qLD/tokens?cluster=testnet

This is how I have created a stake account and funded some SO L to it

Create stake account

solana create-stake-account \
  --fee-payer wallet-keypair.json \
  --stake-authority wallet-keypair.json \
  --withdraw-authority wallet-keypair.json \
  --from wallet-keypair.json \
  stake-account.json 0.5

Delegate Stake

solana delegate-stake \
  --fee-payer wallet-keypair.json \
  --stake-authority wallet-keypair.json \
  4EZRbSFYUQeuNCtY3Tv5tqprpTk9Ak7CZPzPsXKm1qLD 7R5of8HZreWPjURAMupJuik7vx5SAGUghpwU648bWYnt

How to put an additional stake in the public key 4EZRbSFYUQeuNCtY3Tv5tqprpTk9Ak7CZPzPsXKm1qLD

Answer 1

It's a bit annoying, but you have to create and delegate a new stake account to the same validator, wait for the stake to activate, and then merge the new stake into the old stake. For example:

• solana create-stake-account --fee-payer wallet-keypair.json \ --stake-authority wallet-keypair.json \ --withdraw-authority wallet-keypair.json \ --from wallet-keypair.json \ new-stake-account.json 0.5
• solana delegate-stake solana delegate-stake \ --fee-payer wallet-keypair.json \ --stake-authority wallet-keypair.json \ new-stake-account.json 7R5of8HZreWPjURAMupJuik7vx5SAGUghpwU648bWYnt
• wait for the stake to activate fully
• solana --fee-payer wallet-keypair.json --stake-authority wallet-keypair.json merge-stake stake-account.json new-stake-account.json