☕Kava SRB

Learn how Kava staking rewards are calculated. KAVASRB annualizes the fixed per-second staking reward paid from the Kava community pool and divides it by bonded KAVA tokens; Kava has zero inflation.

KAVASRB is a benchmark representing the mean, annualized staking rate across all active Kava validators.

KAVASRB is calculated and published by Staking Rewards via the Kava Profile and Data API.

TL;DR: Kava has no inflation. Stakers are paid a fixed, governance-set reward per second (currently 10,000,000 KAVA per year) out of the x/community pool. KAVASRB annualizes that per-second reward and divides it by total bonded KAVA tokens. Validator-level rates factor in performance and commission.

Unlike most Cosmos SDK chains, Kava does not mint staking rewards through the x/mint module: its inflation is set to 0. Instead, the x/community module transfers a fixed amount of KAVA per second (the staking_rewards_per_second parameter) from the community pool to the fee collector in every block, and x/distribution allocates it pro-rata to bonded stake alongside that block's transaction fees. The community tax is 0, so no share of these rewards is diverted back to the community pool.

The generic ATOMSRB reward-rate formula (annual provisions plus fees, minus community tax) therefore does not apply to Kava. The validator-level rate and the real reward rate still follow the ATOMSRB docs.

⚛️Cosmos Hub SRB

KAVA Staking Rewards Rate: KAVASRB

$$KAVASRB = (r_s * t_y * t_d) / st$$

Formula Key	Metric Name	Description
$r_s$	Staking Rewards Per Second	The amount of KAVA paid to stakers per second from the x/community pool (the governance-set staking_rewards_per_second parameter of the x/community module).
st	Staked Tokens	The total number of tokens bonded with active, non-jailed validators.
$t_y$	Year Constant	365d
$t_d$	Day Constant	86400s

• KAVASRB is non-compounded and counts all rewards, whether claimed or unclaimed.

• Transaction fees are also distributed to stakers but are excluded from KAVASRB: they are negligible next to the community-pool reward (about 0.15% of it, or roughly +0.01 percentage points of reward rate, measured over 7 days in September 2026).

• No community-tax adjustment is applied because Kava's community tax is 0.

• The reward is funded by the x/community pool balance (about 8.77M KAVA as of 09/24/2026). KAVASRB reflects the configured per-second reward and assumes the pool continues to fund it.

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KAVA Validator Staking Rewards Rate: KAVASRB(v)

Staking Rewards calculates the KAVASRB for each validator based on their individual performance and commission rate.

$$KAVASRB(v) = ATOMSRB(v)$$

Cosmos Hub SRB | Staking Datadocs.stakingrewards.com

ATOM Validator Staking Rewards Rate

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KAVA Real Reward Rate: KAVASRB^R

The real reward rate calculates the KAVASRB adjusted for inflation in the network.

$$KAVASRB^R = ATOMSRB^R$$

Cosmos Hub SRB | Staking Datadocs.stakingrewards.com

ATOM Real Reward Rate

Inflation Rate Behavior

Kava's x/mint inflation is 0 (minimum and maximum inflation are both set to 0), so no new KAVA is minted. Staking rewards are redistributed from the existing community pool rather than issued. Because the inflation rate is 0, KAVASRB^R equals KAVASRB.

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Other Kava metrics calculated by Staking Rewards

Metric	Description
Delegated Tokens	The number of tokens delegated to validators.
Self Staked Tokens	The number of tokens staked by validators directly.
Staking Wallets	This metric refers to the number of unique delegator addresses with at least one delegation on-chain. An address delegating to several validators is counted once. It excludes considerations of any minimum delegation thresholds.

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Data Sources:

• Staking Rewards from indexed Kava Blocks and Blockchain RPC Endpoints.

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References:

• https://docs.kava.io/docs/intro/

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Last updated on 09/24/2026