Staking Rewards

Staking rewards are designed to reward Validators and Stakers (=Delegators). The sources of staking rewards are trading fees and gas fees collected by the protocol.

The protocol uses the CosmosSDK’s x/distribution module (opens in a new tab) to allocate the accrued trading and gas fees to Validators and Stakers.

All trading fees (USDC) and gas fees (USDC and NATIVE_TOKEN) collected by the protocol are accrued and distributed within a block. Specifically — for each block, the fees generated are collected in fee_collector module account and then sent to the distribution module account in the following block. Then, the community_tax and validator_commission are subtracted from the collected pool and the resulting amount will be distributed to Validators and Stakers in accordance with their staked token amount.

💡 Note that Stakers must claim the rewards manually. Unclaimed rewards will remain in the distribution module account until they are claimed.

Details

Staking Rewards = 
   fee pool * (# of delegator's staked tokens / total # of staked tokens) 
   * (1 - community tax rate) * (1 - validator commission rate)

The details of how the Staking Rewards are calculated can be found in the CosmosSDK’s x/distribution documentation (opens in a new tab).

Parameters

💡 The current configuration and parameters can be found by querying the network.

• x/distribution: community_tax : specifies the proportion of fee pool that should be sent to community_treasury before staking rewards are distributed. This value can be configured via gov.
• x/staking: validator_commission : specifies the proportion of the staking rewards that a given validator will take from delegator’s reward. This is configured per validator and can be updated by the validator.

See CosmosSDK doc (opens in a new tab) for details.