Block Rewards VS Swap Fees

    When you provide liquidity in Thorchain pools You will get rewarded RUNE from two different sources: Block Rewards and Swap Fees. We are going to look at numbers from these two sources and try to see how they changed over time.

    Block rewards can be found in two tables in velosity database. we first went digging inside daily earnings and chart them to provide a comprehensive scene of what we are facing.

    • beside from block rewards, all other variables in chart below are calculated in USD (block reward are in RUNE).
    • lately, there has been a huge difference between pools and nodes earnings and we expect to see more rewards for nodes and less rewards for pools to balance this difference.
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    Now lets get more accurate by showing how much fee usd was paid for each pool in each month.

    • ETH and BUSD seem to cost more than other pools in fees. BTC is also a close rival to BUSD.
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    And in the end, as the questions asks, we investigated total fees for each pool separately. But there are some ambiguities that should be addresses here. the point is that numbers look very unrealistic

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