Staking Rewards

Validators earn a share of the transaction fees in every block on RougeChain.

Reward Sources

Source	Description
Transaction fees	Your share of the tip pool from transactions in each block (proposer + stake-weighted validator share)

There is no fixed block reward: validator income comes only from fees. The minimum-tip subsidy described below exists in the code but pays nothing on mainnet, because its reserve is empty.

How Rewards Work

The designated proposer (the eligible validator with the most stake) proposes a block when there are pending transactions
The proposer assembles pending transactions; each transaction's full signed fee is debited from its sender
Fees are split, not paid entirely to the proposer: up to half of the base fee per transaction is burned (burned = min(total fees, base fee × tx count ÷ 2)), and the remaining tip pool is distributed 20% to the proposer, 70% among all staked, non-jailed validators (stake-weighted), and 10% to the treasury. If the tip pool is below 0.1 XRGE the code tops it up from the __staking_rewards__ reserve — which holds 0 XRGE on mainnet (2026-10-06; it was never funded), so no top-up happens. Every validator in the set is paid its stake-weighted share whether or not it voted on the block.
Rewards are credited when the block is applied to state

Fee Structure

Transaction Type	Fee
Transfer (wallet-signed)	1 XRGE
Token creation	100 XRGE
Pool creation	10 XRGE
Swap	1 XRGE network fee, plus 0.3% of the input to liquidity providers
Add / remove liquidity	1 XRGE
Stake / Unstake	1 XRGE
Bridge withdrawal	0.1 XRGE

These are the fees the node binds to each signed transaction type (core/daemon/src/v2_binding.rs).

The tip portion of these fees (after the base-fee burn) is split across the proposer, all validators (stake-weighted), and the treasury — see How Rewards Work. Swap fees go to liquidity providers, not validators.

Estimated Returns

Rewards depend on:

Your stake relative to total staked — determines your share of the 70% validator pool in every block
Network activity — more transactions = more fees per block
Whether you are the designated proposer — only the validator with the most stake proposes, and it also receives the 20% proposer share

Example

Scenario	Value
Your stake	10,000 XRGE
Total staked	100,000 XRGE (illustrative — mainnet's total is about 100.1 M XRGE, over 99.9 % of it in one validator, so a 10,000 XRGE stake earns about 0.01 % of the validator pool today)
Your share	10%
Your share of the validator pool	10% of 70% of each block's tip pool
Avg fee per block	varies with network activity

Your earnings are your ~10% share of the 70% validator pool in every block, whoever proposes it (plus the 20% proposer share only if you are the designated proposer). Blocks are produced as transactions arrive, so daily volume tracks real network activity — on a quiet chain that is low, and there is no fixed "blocks per day." These figures are illustrative, not a yield promise; actual returns vary with usage.

Compounding

Rewards are added to your balance, not your stake. To compound:

Periodically stake your accumulated rewards
This increases your share of the validator pool
Leading to more rewards (and, if your stake becomes the largest, the proposer slot)

# Check your balance (includes accumulated rewards)
curl "https://testnet.rougechain.io/api/balance/your-public-key"

# Check blocks proposed
curl "https://testnet.rougechain.io/api/validators"

Tax Considerations

Staking rewards may be taxable income in your jurisdiction. Keep records of:

Amount staked
Rewards received (block by block)
Token price at time of receipt
Unstaking transactions

RougeChain does not provide tax advice. Consult a tax professional.

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