# The week on Kava: reward pool down to 7.49M KAVA, about nine months at today's payout

Kava pays staking rewards from its community pool at 10M KAVA a year, with no inflation and no fee inflow. The pool holds 7.49M KAVA, about nine months at that rate. ValiTest was jailed on 10 November; no vote is open.

- Published: 2026-11-10T11:05:29Z
- Updated: 2026-11-10T11:05:29Z
- Chains: Kava
- Source: https://api.kava.io/kava/community/v1beta1/params
- Web page: https://bitbasic.com/news/25-the-week-on-kava-reward-pool-down-to-749m-kava-about-nine-months-at-todays
- By: BitBasic (https://bitbasic.com), run by BitNordic

No governance proposal is in voting on Kava this week and no software upgrade is scheduled. What did change: the community pool that funds all staking rewards kept shrinking, and one more validator was jailed. Figures are from the Kava chain and BitBasic's Kava dashboard as of 10 November 2026, around 11:00 UTC.

## Staking rewards are drawn from a pool that is not being refilled

Kava mints no new tokens: the chain reports an inflation rate of 0. Staking rewards are instead paid out of the community pool at a fixed rate. The `community` module's `staking_rewards_per_second` parameter is about 317,098 ukava, which works out to 10 million KAVA a year, or about 191,800 KAVA a week.

The pool held about 7.49 million KAVA on 10 November. The chain's community tax is set to 0, so transaction fees do not flow back into it. If nothing tops the pool up and the payout rate stays the same, it would last about 273 days, which is around 10 August 2027. That is BitBasic's arithmetic from on-chain parameters, not an announced date, and governance can change either the payout rate or the pool's funding.

The chain currently reports annualised staking rewards of about 7.9%. Because the reward pot is fixed at 10 million KAVA a year, that rate goes up when less KAVA is staked and down when more is staked. Today 126.17 million KAVA is bonded, 11.7% of the 1.08 billion in supply.

## Validator set

- **48 active validators**, 4 queued and none leaving the set.
- **ValiTest was jailed for downtime** at block 23,422,317, at about 00:40 UTC on 10 November. It has about 22,600 KAVA staked by 2 delegators. Its operator can unjail it, and until then its delegators earn nothing.
- The other jailed validator, 0% Fee | Stakewolle.com, has stayed jailed since 7 October with about 148,300 KAVA from 1,291 delegators.

## Stake still sitting with exited validators

About 7.9 million KAVA is still delegated to 224 validators that have left the set. Many of them have names asking delegators to redelegate. That stake earns no rewards. The largest, named "Discontinued Validator | Please Redelegate", holds about 2.96 million KAVA from 9,758 delegators.

## What it means

- **Delegators:** check that your validator is active. Stake on a jailed or exited validator earns nothing. You can redelegate it to an active validator straight away, without waiting the 21-day unbonding period. Keep in mind that staking rewards depend on the community pool, so any proposal that changes the payout rate or funds the pool matters to you.
- **Validators:** nothing to do this week. No upgrade is planned and no vote is open.

Earlier coverage: [Kava incentive claims close today after proposal 222 began the DeFi wind-down](https://bitbasic.com/news/1-kava-incentive-claims-close-today-after-proposal-222-began-the-defi-wind-down).

You can follow the validator set, jailings and the rewards runway on [BitBasic's Kava dashboard](https://bitbasic.com/kava) and its [validator list](https://bitbasic.com/kava/validators).

## Sources

- [Kava community module parameters (Kava REST API)](https://api.kava.io/kava/community/v1beta1/params)
- [Kava community pool balance (Kava REST API)](https://api.kava.io/kava/community/v1beta1/balance)
- [Kava annualised staking rewards (Kava REST API)](https://api.kava.io/kava/community/v1beta1/annualized_rewards)
- [Kava inflation (Kava REST API)](https://api.kava.io/cosmos/mint/v1beta1/inflation)
- [Kava distribution parameters (Kava REST API)](https://api.kava.io/cosmos/distribution/v1beta1/params)
- [BitBasic: Kava dashboard](https://bitbasic.com/kava)
- [BitBasic: ValiTest on Kava](https://bitbasic.com/kava/validators/kavavaloper15qqkn4q46nqpdej5x4unntsycd90nvdj7jjm5g)