Unable to Delegate to a Drep in Daedelus 7.0.2

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Hi, I’m trying to delegate to a DREP.

I pick my wallet, I select the voting registration type, and I put in the DREP ID and click on Submit.

From videos on Youtube, there is supposed to be a pop-up that asks for my password. However, I don’t get that and nothing happens on the screen. No pop-up is displayed.

I’m on windows 11 with 32 gigs of memory and plenty of SSD space.

Is there some setting that has to be set or is this a bug on Windows 11?

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Its a little confusing, but there are two formats for the DRep ID (CIP 105 and CIP129), and Daedalus only accepts one of these. My memory of this is that Daedalus only accepts CIP129.

If you look up the DRep Id you have on cardanoscan, it should give you the id in both formats, Then try the one you have not yet used.

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Hi erikd,

Thanks for the quick response. The delegation page actually specifies to enter in a CIP-105 ID. If you put in a CIP-129 ID, it will be highlighted (in red) as an invalid DRep ID and not allow you to submit. So that’s not the issue.

Chris

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Then the only things I can think of are:

  • Are you running the latest version of Daedalus?
  • Is your Daedalus fully synced to the network?
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Yes to both. When is the next version release. I can try again when that comes out. I feel like this is a bug.

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I know I have delegated to a DRep from this version of Daedalus.

Have you delegated to DRep before with this wallet?

Maybe try delegating to “Abstain” first and then try delegating to the DRep.

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Yes, Ive tried abstaining and no confidence options but get the same result. Basically the popup for the password won’t show not matter what option I try.

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Wow, that is super weird. I suggest you raise an issue on Zendesk.

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Will do. thanks

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Like @erikd said, you probably should raise an ticket on ZenDesk.

In the meantime you could restore your keys in a litewallet like Typhon or Eternl and try to delegate to a DRep there.

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It might be worth trying a different PC

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I actually figured it out. What I was doing was moving all my crypto out of the wallet to an exchange in order to sell it. I had transferred everything except for unspent rewards because it was locked due to the delegation issue.

So basically, I didn’t have any ADA aside from the unspent rewards in my Daedalus wallet. Delegating requires a transaction fee for which there wasn’t enough to cover it.

I only discovered this when I moved over and tried delegating in the Eternl wallet where it actually gives you proper error messaging; whereas Daedalus just hangs.

Strange that a third party wallet would be more robust than the Daedalus wallet.

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