Answer first: Many wallets still say freeze/unfreeze, but the live protocol path is Stake 2.0: stake, unstake, wait, withdraw. Treat “freeze” as legacy wording for the same resource lock.
How to translate old labels
- Freeze ≈ Stake (Energy or Bandwidth).
- Unfreeze ≈ start unstake + later withdraw.
- If a guide only mentions freeze with no withdraw step, it is incomplete for Stake 2.0.
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