Amount of ada to stake

Enter the amount of ada you would like to stake.
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Staking Reward per year ada
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Annualized Staking Reward
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Info

This calculator is based on a Monte Carlo simulation and live data from the Cardano mainnet.

You can delegate your ada to a staking pool and receive automatic and regular rewards.

Enter any ada value for which you want to calculate and simulate the yield.

The gray number shows the result of your previous simulation so you can compare different parameter values.

Learn more about Proof of Stake delegations of your ada, how to operate a staking pool , and a good read about the slashing free, liquid staking capabilities offered to all ada holders.

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Staking Pools

Compare up to 3 stake pools. See how much you can expect to earn. A Monte Carlo simulation is used to account for the luck factor and shows the expected low, medium and high return for each pool.

Staking Pools Info

You can actively participate with your ada tokens in the liquid staking mechanism and thus the provable security of Cardano.

The Ouroboros protocol provides rules that rely on the rational behavior of ada holders delegating to stake pools that yield the maximum staking reward.

Select up to 3 different real pools to compare the differences for the stake amount you initially set.

You will see that the pools have different characteristics and qualities that can make a significant difference to you.

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Stake Pool Parameters

These parameters are specific to each stake pool and affect how rewards are distributed between the pool operator and delegators, as well as how many blocks the pool is expected to mint each epoch. Expand to change these parameters and see the effect on rewards.

Staking Pool Parameters Info

This section is pre-filled with the values of the pool you last selected above. Here you can virtually change its main values and thus simulate the effects on the rewards displayed above.

Depending on the size of the pool and the proportion of the pledge, there will be differences in returns, which are also explained in detail in this Parameter Modeling whitepaper.

To enable simulations that explore new limits, this simulator also allows you to set values that are not currently possible according to the valid global blockchain parameters and the Guardrails document, e.g. minimum fixed fees below 170 ada.

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Blockchain Parameters

These parameters are specific to the Cardano blockchain and affect the total size of the reward "pot" available for distribution, and how it is distributed to different pools. Some parameters can be changed by community vote (dynamic parameters), while others can't be changed at all (static parameters).

Info Blockchain Parameters

In the currently deepest part of this reward calculator, you can get an impression of the parameters that have become part of governance on the Cardano PoS blockchain with the Chang and Plomin hard fork in early 2025.

The first part deals with the dynamic parameters that can be changed with governance actions as defined in CIP-1694.

These values can be changed by a majority vote of the stake pool operators and/or DReps, and then apply to the entire blockchain, all stake pools and ada holders. A change can significantly influence the reward calculation, the game theory, the consumption of reserves, the filling of the treasury pot and also the individual ada holder's staking rewards.

In the Fees & Remaining Reserves section, the simulator also allows you to simulate a theoretical value of the transaction fees collected per epoch. The effective returns cannot be changed by governance actions, but depend largely on the adoption and integration of the blockchain in use cases.

version: 25.03.2