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TON staking rewards: how the APY works and when you get paid

Staking rewards on TON come from the network itself: validators that confirm blocks are rewarded for it. When you stake through a liquid staking pool, your TON joins the pool's stake and you receive your share of those rewards.

What the APY means

APY — annual percentage yield — is how much a stake would grow in a year at the current rate, with rewards compounding. At about 13% a year, 100 TON would grow to about 113 TON. The rate is not fixed: it depends on how much TON is staked across the network, on how the validators perform and on network activity. The staking page shows the current rate read straight from the pool, after the protocol's share.

When rewards arrive

The pool settles rewards every validation round, about every 18 hours. There are no separate payments: the value of each tsTON in TON rises, so rewards compound on their own. A quick estimate of the daily reward is stake × APY ÷ 365 — for 1,000 TON at 13% that is about 0.36 TON a day.

Why the value can look a little lower right after staking

New stakes are priced at the rate expected at the end of the current round. For the first hours your tsTON can therefore be worth a hair less TON than you put in; the difference disappears when the round closes and its rewards are added.

What reduces rewards

The protocol keeps a share of the rewards for running the pool; the rate you see already accounts for it.
Network fees of a few hundredths of TON per transaction.
Validator penalties, which are shared across the whole pool and rare in practice.

Rewards are paid in TON, so their dollar value follows the TON price.

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