🛡️Sentinel SRB

Learn how Sentinel staking rewards are calculated. DVPNSRB uses the Cosmos SDK formula with annual provisions, fees, community tax, and staked DVPN tokens.

DVPNSRB is a benchmark representing the mean, annualized staking rate across all active Sentinel validators.

DVPNSRB is calculated and published by Staking Rewards via the Sentinel Profile and Data API.

TL;DR: Sentinel staking rewards follow the Cosmos SDK formula (ATOMSRB): annual provisions plus annualized fees (including the 20% dVPN node revenue staking share), minus community tax, divided by total staked DVPN tokens. Validator-level rates factor in performance and commission.

The calculations are derived from the ATOMSRB documentation, serving as the foundational reference to ensure the accuracy of relevant metrics.

For more information visit the ATOMSRB docs.

⚛️Cosmos Hub SRB

DVPN Staking Rewards Rate: DVPNSRB

DVPNSRB = ATOMSRB

Difference from ATOMSRB: the Daily Fees term (df). For Sentinel, df is the full non-inflationary inflow to the fee collector, not transaction fees alone.

Sentinel's node revenue system routes a staking_share of 20% of every dVPN session, subscription and lease payment from the deposit module to the fee collector.
The distribution module sweeps it together with newly minted tokens and transaction fees, so it reaches stakers exactly like a fee: 93% goes to validators and delegators, and 7% goes to the community pool as community tax.
This staking share dominates df. Transaction fees are only about 0.1% of minted tokens, while the staking share has measured at roughly 5–9% of minted tokens.

How df is measured. Because the distribution module sends exactly the community tax share of every sweep to the community pool, the pool is a cumulative counter of everything distributed. Over a height-pinned window of about 7 days:

df = \frac{\Delta cp / ct - m}{t_{window}}

where $\Delta cp$ is the change in the community pool (DVPN), $ct$ is the community tax, $m$ is the tokens minted in the window (blocks in the window × average annual provisions ÷ blocks per year), and $t_{window}$ is the elapsed time in days measured from the two block timestamps. df is gross, before community tax; the ATOMSRB formula applies $(1 - ct)$ itself. As in ATOMSRB, the reward rate uses the 30-day average of df. A window is discarded, never recorded as zero, if any archived read cannot be verified at its requested height, if the non-mint inflow is not positive (a community pool spend landed in the window), or if it exceeds 50% of minted tokens (a community pool deposit).

DVPN Validator Staking Rewards Rate: DVPNSRB(v)

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

DVPNSRB(v) = ATOMSRB(v)

DVPN Real Reward Rate: DVPNSRB^R

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

DVPNSRB^R = ATOMSRB^R

Inflation Rate Behavior

Sentinel uses the standard Cosmos SDK mint module. Inflation moves within a band of 7% to 10% per year, adjusting by up to 3 percentage points per year toward a bonded-ratio goal of 67%: it rises while less than 67% of the supply is staked and falls while more is staked.
With about 53% of the supply bonded, inflation currently sits at the 10% maximum. There is no supply cap; the total supply is about 35.55 billion DVPN.
Inflation is measured against the actual block time rather than the protocol's target block time, as described in ATOMSRB.

Other Sentinel 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.

Daily Fees

The daily non-inflationary inflow to the fee collector, gross of community tax: the 20% node revenue staking share of dVPN session, subscription and lease payments, plus transaction fees.

Fee Revenue

Daily Fees annualized (365 days) and converted to USD.

Data Sources:

Staking Rewards from indexed Sentinel Blocks and Blockchain RPC Endpoints, including archived (height-pinned) community pool and mint state from Sentinel LCD endpoints.

References:

https://docs.sentinel.co/
https://github.com/sentinel-official/hub (node revenue staking_share, sent to the fee collector)

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Last updated on 09/25/2026

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