# DOT staking rewards

**URL:** <https://forum.polkadot.network/t/dot-staking-rewards/15450>\
**Category:** Tech Talk\
**Tags:** staking\
**Created:** [October 14, 2025, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/dot-staking-rewards/15450 "2025-10-14T06:17:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![u238](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/59ef9b/32.png) [@u238](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/u238)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/dot-staking-rewards/15450/1 "2025-10-14T06:17:13Z")

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Hello, can anyone explain why the staking rewards drastically fall whenever there is a price dip, like on 10.OCT?

As far as I understand, besides validator’s performance, rewards are related to amount of dot staked vs inflation.

Considering unbonding period of 28 days, nobody can make a sudden change in amount of DOT staked….

My validator has been the same for over a year.

But sill, whenever there is a price dip, the rewards reduce.

For the past months or so I was getting 0.9 per day, and now suddenly 0.5 - WTF???

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**Author:** ![monomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@monomorph](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/monomorph)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/dot-staking-rewards/15450/2 "2025-10-14T13:32:05Z")

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I would also like to know.

It concerns me that nobody cares to provide \*any\* answer.

Is this site really completely filled with scammers sending DM’s to suspicious links?

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**Author:** ![bill\_w3f](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/bill_w3f/32/910_2.png) [@bill\_w3f](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/bill_w3f)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/dot-staking-rewards/15450/3 "2025-10-14T13:44:46Z")

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Price has absolutely no impact on staking rewards (the system has no idea of what the price is and no real way _to_ know). Any observation you notice is likely statistical noise.

Feel free to send your address to [https://support.polkadot.network/](https://support.polkadot.network/) (as always don’t share seed, ignore any DMs you get on here, etc.) and they can review it for you to see if there is a reason you are getting less DOT.

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**Author:** ![bill\_w3f](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/bill_w3f/32/910_2.png) [@bill\_w3f](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/bill_w3f)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/dot-staking-rewards/15450/4 "2025-10-14T13:46:04Z")

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The majority of people at Parity, and quite a few at W3F, are at a retreat this week. However, even in general, I would not expect responses on a forum post within a few hours of it being posted.