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README.md

Validation-client Economics

Subject to change.

Validator-clients are eligible to receive protocol-based i.e. inflation-based rewards issued via stake-based annual interest rates calculated per epoch by providing compute CPU+GPU resources to validate and vote on a given PoH state. These protocol-based rewards are determined through an algorithmic disinflationary schedule as a function of total amount of circulating tokens. The network is expected to launch with an annual inflation rate around 15%, set to decrease by 15% per year until a long-term stable rate of 1-2% is reached. These issuances are to be split and distributed to participating validators and archivers, with around 90% of the issued tokens allocated for validator rewards. Because the network will be distributing a fixed amount of inflation rewards across the stake-weighted valdiator set, any individual validator's interest rate will be a function of the amount of staked SOL in relation to the circulating SOL.

Additionally, validator clients may earn revenue through fees via state-validation transactions and Proof-of-Replication PoRep transactions. For clarity, we separately describe the design and motivation of these revenue distriubutions for validation-clients below: state-validation protocol-based rewards, state-validation transaction fees and rent, and PoRep-validation transaction fees.