Staking Strategy and Rewards

The best way to maximize your liquid ICP is to follow this guide: https://icp.guide/the-best-staking-strategy-to-maximize-liquid-icp/. We haven’t seen a calculator or formula to do this yet.

The 8 year dissolve delay staking reward right now is about 28%. This means that the daily rate of return is 0.076%, the weekly rate of return is 0.538%, and the monthly rate of return is 2.3%. To get 1 ICP in rewards every day, you need 1 / 0.00076 ICP, which is 1,316 ICP

The best strategy to maximize ICP return (regardless of when you want your ICP out) is to make your dissolve delay as high as possible and then compound your returns, meaning take any ICP rewards you get and reinvest them into your staked neuron. Compounding is currently a manual activity, but the Dfinity foundation has

No. Once you have earned voting rewards, they will not decrease. The amount of voting rewards you have earned is expressed as maturity in the NNS app. Rewards = Maturity * Staked ICP. There are conditions that will change your maturity, but they will not change your rewards. Adding more ICP to a neuron and

Annualized returns are not fixed and will generally decrease over the next 8 years. The total voting reward token allocation will decrease over time.  Also, as more ICP is staked, the fraction of the “total voting reward token allocation” received by each individual will decrease. You can increase your dissolve delay any time which will

The “Spawn” button will not become active until your ICP rewards are greater than 1 ICP (meaning maturity multiplied by total ICP staked is greater than 1). Then you can spawn a new neuron with your newly minted ICP.

In order to earn rewards your dissolve delay has to be 6 months or longer and you have to vote on NNS proposals.  A way to guarantee that you vote on all proposals is to follow another neuron that you trust will vote in a manner that is consistent with your preferences.  The two most

When you have greater than 1 ICP in rewards (when maturity multiplied by total staked ICP is greater than 1), then you can “Spawn” a new neuron with your freshly minted ICP rewards.

Daily voting rewards are based on your chosen dissolve delay, the age of your neuron, the number of ICP you staked, the percentage of proposals you voted on for the day, the total number of ICP staked in the network, and the total voting reward token allocation dedicated to governance.  The formula is a bit