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# Mina Reward Calculation

This article reveals how rewards are calculated on Mina

> 🚧 This article is relevant for the post-hardfork state of the Mina Blockchain.

Mina blockchain offers a reward for block production to encourage nodes to produce new blocks so that the blockchain will be continuously maintained. You can be rewarded for staking Mina by running a node and producing blocks or delegating tokens to a validator. Validators that stake Mina get 100% of the reward they win minus the reward of their delegators and the snark-work fee (see Formula 1).

> 📘 Glossary
>
> **Block** - a discrete unit of a blockchain that carries information about transactions, which is recorded in a special cryptographic way.\
> **Block production** - the process of producing blocks, which includes adding transactions to a block and recording them therein in a cryptographic manner, as well as gossiping network participants and adding a new block to the network.\
> **Delegation** - a type of blockchain consensus protocol that allows users to spend their coins or tokens to vote for different delegates.\
> **Delegator** - an account that makes its staking by providing its own funds to a node rather than running its own node.\
> **Node** - a device (such as a computer) that contains a copy of the blockchain's transaction history and maintains a blockchain.\
> **Reward** - tokens paid to a block producer for block production to encourage it to engage in maintaining blockchain consistency.\
> **Snarker fee** - a fee for using the network node that provides ZK-proof.\
> **Validator** - a node that maintains the integrity of the blockchain by constantly calculating the link from the first to the last block and by approving new blocks created by block producers.\
> **Validator pool** - a pool that consists of the stake of elected validators.

> 📘 Formula 1 - Validator Reward Calculation
>
> **BR = CR+TF+SF**,\
> where **BR**- block reward,\
> **CR** - coinbase reward,\
> **TF** - transaction fee,\
> **SF** - snark-work fee

Winning a reward for block creation is a lottery; the chances depend on the validator’s pool share: the higher the pool share, the more chances a validator has to win block production. The amount of the reward paid is 720 Mina.

Delegators can win a reward as a result of a delegation, and its size depends on their stake (share) in the validator pool: the more significant stake a delegator has in the validator pool, the more substantial share of the reward it can receive. Delegation is beneficial for both validators and delegators: the first charge a fee for a delegation from delegators, while the latter gets a chance to participate in staking without having to run a node. The amount of the reward paid to a delegator is calculated as specified by Formula 2.

> 📘 Formula 2 - Delegator Reward Calculation
>
> **DR = BR *S* (1-PF)**,\
> where **DR** - delegator reward,\
> **BR** - block reward,\
> **S** - shares,\
> **PF** - pool fees.

You can see how validators pay rewards on [Minascan](https://minascan.io/mainnet/validators/rewards)