ETH Staking APR: Validator Rewards and Yield
What ETH staking pays per year, split into consensus rewards, priority fees and MEV, measured from the rewards validators received.
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stETH APR Compared With rETH, weETH and Other LSTs
What APR has each ETH liquid staking token actually paid over the last 7 and 30 days?
The yield each ETH liquid staking token actually paid over 7 and 30 days, from its on-chain exchange rate, with supply and protocol fee.
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Blueprint
What the table will hold.
The table as it will open in Strata. Each figure is named here and arrives with its receipt; until its data is published, its place stays empty.
One row One row per ETH liquid staking token, on the latest complete daySorted by APR, 30 days, highest first
| Token | Protocol | APR, 7 days | APR, 30 days | Exchange rateETH | Supplytokens | ETH representedETH | Protocol fee | Rate type | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- Token token Token
- The token's name and symbol, linked to its contract on Ethereum.
- Protocol protocol Text
- The protocol that issues the token and redeems it for ETH.
- APR, 7 days apr_7d Percent
- Realized APR over the last 7 days, from the token's exchange rate at the window's start and end blocks.
- APR, 30 days apr_30d Percent
- Realized APR over the last 30 days, measured the same way.
- Exchange rate exchange_rate Number
- ETH per token at the day's last block, from the token's own rate function.
- Supply supply Exact amount
- totalSupply() at the same block, scaled by decimals, as an exact amount.
- ETH represented eth_backing Exact amount
- Supply times the exchange rate: the ETH the token's holders can claim.
- Protocol fee protocol_fee Percent
- The share of staking rewards the protocol keeps, read on-chain where set there and otherwise from its documentation.
- Rate type rate_type Text
- Whether the token rebases or accrues through an exchange rate, and the function this table reads.
- Receipt receipt Link
- The two blocks, their hashes and the calls behind the row's APR.
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About
What it answers, and for whom.
A liquid staking token earns its yield through an exchange rate: each wstETH, rETH or weETH is worth more ETH over time as staking rewards accrue. This table reads that rate from each token's contract at two pinned blocks and turns the change into a realized APR over 7 and 30 days, so the figure is what holders actually received after the protocol's fee.
Rates are read on Ethereum, where each token is minted and redeemed; bridged copies on layer 2s are claims on the same token and are not listed again. Sort by 30-day APR to compare tokens or by supply to see the largest, and open any cell to see the two reads behind it.
Method
How it will be measured.
Every figure will be read at a block, kept with its source and its exact read, and open a receipt anyone can re-check.
How receipts work →- Each token's ETH value is read from its own rate function at the last block of each day: stEthPerToken() for wstETH, getExchangeRate() for rETH, getRate() for weETH and exchangeRate() for cbETH.
- Realized APR is the change in that rate between two pinned blocks, divided by the earlier rate and scaled to a year by the time between the two block timestamps.
- Rebasing tokens such as stETH are measured through their wrapped form, whose rate captures the same rewards as the daily balance changes.
- The protocol fee is the share of staking rewards the protocol keeps, read on-chain where it is set there (for Lido, from TokenRebased events) and otherwise taken from the protocol's documentation and marked as documented.
- Every rate carries a receipt: the block, its hash and the call that returned it.
The data it needs
Read from chain state and history
- lst_rates_dailyTo buildLiquid staking ratesExchange rates of liquid staking and restaking tokens (wstETH, rETH, cbETH, weETH and others) at day end, and the realized yield they imply.
- token_supply_dailyTo buildToken supply by dayTotal supply of each registry token on each chain at day end: wrapped BTC, liquid staking tokens, tokenized assets and other tracked tokens.
- wstETH stEthPerToken() at day-end blocks
- rETH getExchangeRate(), weETH getRate() and cbETH exchangeRate() at the same blocks
- mETH mETHToETH(), ETHx getExchangeRate() and the rate getters of other registry tokens
- Block timestamps of each window's start and end blocks
- Lido TokenRebased events for the share of rewards minted as fees
- totalSupply() of each token at the end block
Questions
Questions people ask.
What is the stETH APR?
It is the yield stETH holders received over a period, measured from the change in wstETH's stEthPerToken() between two blocks and annualized. It already reflects Lido's fee on rewards, so it is lower than the gross yield of the validators behind it.
Why do liquid staking tokens pay different APRs?
They differ in fees, in how much ETH waits unstaked in buffers or withdrawal reserves, in validator performance and in extra strategies some of them run. The realized APR captures all of these at once, because it only reads what the exchange rate did.
What is the difference between the 7-day and 30-day APR?
The 7-day APR responds quickly to busy weeks with high fees and MEV, and to timing effects such as when oracle reports land. The 30-day APR smooths those out. Reading both shows whether a token's yield is changing or only noisy.
How does stETH differ from wstETH?
stETH rebases: holders' balances grow each day as rewards are reported. wstETH wraps stETH into a token with a fixed balance whose exchange rate rises instead, which suits DeFi contracts and bridges better. Both earn the same rewards.
Can a liquid staking token's exchange rate go down?
Yes, if the protocol reports a loss, for example from slashing or penalties larger than rewards. A falling rate shows here as a negative realized APR for the window, with the blocks where it happened.
- Liquid staking token
- A token that represents staked ETH and can be traded or used in DeFi while the ETH behind it stays in validators.
- Exchange rate
- How much ETH one unit of a non-rebasing liquid staking token is worth, as reported by its own contract.
- Rebasing
- A token design where holders' balances change on their own as rewards accrue, instead of the token's exchange rate rising.
- Realized APR
- The yield actually earned between two dates, measured from on-chain rates, rather than a rate a protocol announces in advance.
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