Where do Staking Rewards come from?
In PoS networks validators earn tokens from the network itself and gas fees collected from users' transactions.
In TON, rewards are composed of:
- Gas Fees. Users must attach a small amount of $TON with each transaction to reward validators who process them.
- Inflation. For each block created TON issues new Toncoins to validators. The overall annual inflation rate ranges from 0.3% to 0.6% of the total amount of $TON in circulation.
The average TON staking APY is 4.7%. It may vary depending on network activity and collected gas fees, the total amount of tokens staked, and other factors.