Rewards calculator

What PIVX pays to stake or run a masternode

Type in how much PIV you hold and see the block rewards it can expect: staking all of it, or locking 10,000 at a time as masternode collateral and staking the rest. Below that, an inflation calculator shows how fast new supply grows, so you can see what a reward is worth once everyone else's coins have grown too.

Block rewards only, nothing else

This counts the PIV the protocol pays out per block and nothing more. It puts no value on the governance vote a masternode carries, on helping secure the network, or on anything else a stake or a masternode is good for. It also ignores the price of PIV, hosting outages, missed payments and taxes.

The figures are averages. Staking is a lottery won in 4 PIV prizes, so a small balance can go weeks without a stake and then win two in a day.

Network figures

Both calculators read from these. They load live from the explorer and node I run, and every one is yours to change if you want to try a different future.

Estimated from difficulty, 7-day average
Each one is paid in turn
Target is 60; real blocks run a little slower
Transparent plus shielded
Average of the last 12 monthly budgets

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Staking and masternodes

Since block 3,715,200 every block mints 10 PIV: 6 to a masternode and 4 to whoever staked it. Collateral is locked, so it can't stake as well, which is why the two plans are compared on the same coins.

10,000 PIV collateral each
The wallet's default is 500
Needs a price to convert

Stake all of it

No minimum

Masternodes, rest staked

10,000 PIV each

Simple rate is the first year's rewards over what you put in. Annualised is what the whole period returned per year, compounding included. After inflation is the annualised rate measured against how fast the supply grows over the same period, using the treasury figure above. It is how your share of all PIV changes, which is the part of a reward that isn't just keeping pace.

Inflation

PIVX has no halving. Blocks mint a flat 10 PIV, and the treasury can mint up to the same again each month, but only what passing proposals claim. With a fixed amount added to a growing supply, the inflation rate falls a little every year without anything changing.

The same figure as in Network figures, so it moves the rewards too

Inflation rate by year

New PIV that year over supply at the start of it
Projected PIVX supply by year
Year Supply at start New PIV Inflation

How it's worked out

Counted

  • The block reward split from PIVX Core: 10 PIV a block, 6 to the masternode in line, 4 to the staker.
  • Your chance of staking a block is your coins over all coins staking, yours included. Masternodes are paid in turn, so each one gets one payment per lap of the queue, and yours join the queue.
  • A coin that just staked must wait 600 confirmations (about 10 hours) before it can stake again. Wallets split stakes into pieces near the split threshold to keep that wait short; one very large unsplit coin loses noticeably more.
  • Masternode collateral is locked and doesn't stake. Rewards paid to a masternode can stake if you restake them.
  • Inflation counts the block reward plus treasury payouts, which are capped at 432,000 PIV for each 43,200-block budget cycle.

Not counted

  • The value of a masternode's governance vote, or anything else a stake or a masternode brings beyond block rewards.
  • Price changes, taxes, exchange fees, and hosting beyond the monthly figure you enter.
  • Downtime. A masternode that goes offline drops out of the payment queue until it's back, and a wallet that's offline doesn't stake.
  • The 10 hours new coins wait before their first stake, and the few blocks a month where a budget payment replaces the masternode payment.
  • Burns. Transaction fees and proposal fees are destroyed, which nudges supply down, but they're tiny next to issuance.

Where the numbers come from

Staking weight, block time and treasury payouts come from the explorer's analytics (/pivx/explorer/api/v2/analytics/staking and /treasury), supply from /pivx/explorer/api/v2/moneysupply, and the masternode count from the node API (/pivx/rpc/mainnet/getmasternodecount). Staking weight can't be read off the chain directly; the explorer estimates it from difficulty, calibrated against a staking pool of known size. Everything else is arithmetic in your browser, and nothing you type leaves it.