Injective Staking Calculator
Estimate Injective (INJ) staking rewards over any period. Prefilled with a typical INJ reward rate and the live INJ price — edit both to match your validator.
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Using the Injective Staking Calculator
This calculator estimates what staking INJ pays over a period you choose, in both coins and dollars. The reward rate is prefilled at 11% — roughly low-to-mid teens, moving inversely with how much INJ is staked — but treat that as a starting point, not a quote: staking rates move with participation and with validator commission, so put in the rate your own validator advertises.
How you stake INJ: Delegate INJ to a validator from an Injective or Cosmos wallet; rewards accrue continuously and are claimed manually. Liquidity matters as much as the rate. Unbonding takes 21 days, during which the tokens earn nothing and cannot be moved. A high advertised rate on a coin you cannot exit quickly is a different product from the same rate on a liquid position, and that difference shows up exactly when you need it — during a sharp drawdown.
Two things the dollar figure cannot tell you. First, rewards are usually taxable as income when you receive them in most jurisdictions, at the value on the day — see the tax guide for your country. Second, INJ has a small supply relative to its market cap, which cuts both ways: rallies are sharp, and so are the reversals. A 11% yield does not protect you from a price move several times that size, so judge staking on total return, not on the APR alone.
What 11% actually compounds to on INJ
- Reward rate
- 11% (roughly low-to-mid teens, moving inversely with how much INJ is staked)
- First year on 100 INJ
- 11 INJ
- Monthly-compounded 1y
- 11.57 INJ
- Compounded 5y
- 72.89 INJ
At 11% (roughly low-to-mid teens, moving inversely with how much INJ is staked), staking 100 INJ pays about 11 INJ in the first year simple. Compounded monthly that becomes 11.57 INJ, and left to compound for five years, 72.89 INJ — the gap widens the longer your INJ stays put, which is where the lockup matters: Unbonding takes 21 days, during which the tokens earn nothing and cannot be moved.
Staking is native to Injective, so you are securing the protocol directly rather than trusting a wrapper. Rewards arrive in INJ, so their dollar value rides the price — a 11% yield is no defence against a price move several times that size, so judge the position on total return rather than the headline rate.
Figures are derived from INJ's own daily closes over the window shown and are bounded by it — not all-time values. Prices move; treat them as context, not a forecast.
Injective at a glance
- Launched
- Mainnet 2021
- Consensus
- Proof-of-stake (Cosmos SDK, Tendermint)
- Total supply
- 100,000,000 INJ
- Order book
- Built into the chain, shared by every application on it
- Burn
- Weekly auction of collected fees; the winning INJ is burned
- Native staking
- Yes — delegate to a validator
Frequently asked questions
- How much can I earn staking Injective?
- At roughly 11% a year, staking 100 INJ earns about 11 INJ over twelve months before commission. Enter your own amount and rate above for the exact figure, in coins and at the live INJ price.
- Is my INJ locked while staking?
- Unbonding takes 21 days, during which the tokens earn nothing and cannot be moved.
- Are INJ staking rewards taxed?
- In most countries staking rewards are income at the moment you can access them, valued in your local currency on that date, and then a second capital-gains event when you later sell. A few treat them differently — Germany, for instance, has its own allowance for staking income. Check our tax guide for your jurisdiction.
- How are staking rewards calculated?
- Rewards ≈ amount staked × annual reward rate × (days ÷ 365). This is a simple (non-compounded) estimate.
- APR vs APY for staking?
- APR is the flat annual rate. If you restake (compound) rewards, your effective APY is higher — see the APY calculator.
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For educational purposes only. Rates, fees and protocol parameters change — verify current figures with your exchange or validator before acting. Not financial advice.