Kava rewards calculator
Estimate what staking with a validator earns, after its commission.
Typical fee 0.0115 KAVA
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Any active validator, before its commission: about 7.88% a year
Kava has no inflation: its community pool pays stakers a fixed amount per second, shared by all staked KAVA. This is that amount over a year as a share of the stake, before the validator's commission.
How this is worked out
Kava’s community pool pays stakers 0.317097 KAVA a second (10M KAVA over a 365-day year), shared by the 127.03M KAVA staked, so every active validator’s stake earns 7.88% a year before its commission (Kava reports 7.87%, counting 365 days a year).
- Kava’s own figure
- 7.87%
- The staking APR Kava reports, before commission, over a 365-day year
- Paid to stakers
- 0.317097 KAVA a second
- 10M KAVA over a 365-day year, from the community pool
- Community pool
- 7.82M KAVA
- About 9.4 months of rewards at this rate
- Bonded
- 11.73%
- 127.03M of 1.08B KAVA staked
- Inflation
- 0%
- No new KAVA is minted: the community pool pays stakers instead
- Community tax
- 0%
- Of every block’s rewards, kept for the community pool
Assumptions
- The pool pays a fixed amount a second, not a share of the supply, so the rate falls as more KAVA is staked and rises as stake leaves.
- The pool funds these rewards only while it lasts: at this rate it runs out in about 9.4 months (to around Aug 2027), unless it is topped up or the rate changes. After that stakers earn only transaction fees.
- Governance can change the amount paid a second at any time.
- Transaction fees are shared out the same way but left out here.
- Rewards are not counted as restaked. They wait until claimed; claiming and restaking them every day turns 7.88% a year into about 8.20%.
- Kava’s own figure counts a 365-day year; these estimates count 365.25 days, so the same reward a second shows a little more a year.