I am afraid there is still an issue with staking. I am holding 27M ESP and the wallet says: next stake in 15 (or 30) minutes. But: nothing happens.

One time staking was happening, the 27M were blocked for one day and I got arround 40.000. It seems to work, but there is still an issue.
Right now, I am also staking stratis and blackcoin. Meaning, I know the procedures.   

Actually, the ESP wallet has 16 connections. Would it help the network to increase it to 32 / 64 ? How to do that ?