Here is a handy estimator worksheet aimed at helping people model outcomes based on RToken TVL, revenue shares and total RSR staked. You can fork the worksheet and play with the formulas.
Posting here in the Forums since its not currently possible to post google spreadsheet links in the Discord–a bit of a workaround.
If you find the tool useful or have critique on the maths please say so and will correct.
I am not 100% certain on the maths so hopeful others will weigh in.
Also happy to add active RToken community member as co-editor–just raise your hand!
None of this is financial advice, its just a tool you can play with and improve upon.
This is great. I would like to see something like this on the website as well. From an SEO POV I would consider making it available for non-RTokens to bring more top of the funnel traffic in and then evangelize about RTokens on the calculator page. This is a common tactic in SEO circles and I can see something like this attracting traffic from people who otherwise would not be familiar with RTokens.
Thanks James, really helpful! I have quickly gone through the maths and I did not find any errors there. There a couple of things that could be added depending on what insight you are looking for. For instance, I am for now more interested in the staking yield in terms of number of RSR tokens (I enjoy accumulating). But to build that in the sheet would also require to know/estimate the (average) RSR price in the staking period, so it would make it more complex with every ‘user story’ you would like to implement. I therefor think it is best left as-is and let people in the community build on this and share back an ‘extended version’ if deemed useful for everyone.
Great work @0xJMG, it would definitely be great if someone could transform that data and integrate it into a website like @RyanTreeFiddy mentions… Having a kind of dynamic calculator, where the user can know with more certainty how much yield they will get by staking X amount of RSR.
Yes @RyanTreeFiddy good idea to add the estimator to app.reserve.org RToken staking pages, as it immediatly adds more utility and might even enhance SEO.
As you stated @R72 next-level-coolness would be to look at existing RSR staked on the RToken along with my proposed RSR stake to give some estimate of how it impacts “me.” In fact, thats why I created this goog-sheets estimator is for a whale to model their outcomes on this exact question.
For a hypothetical example with round numbers:
990 million RSR staked on eUSD.
Blended Yield: 5.10%.
Stakers’ Share: 89.5% of Blended Yield.
Your Stake: 10 million RSR (1% of total).
Projected Rewards: ____ million RSR annually (run rate estimate).
Caveat: projections cannot be financial advice nor will they be very correct as the market for RTokens and RSR staking is dynamic, liquid and can change daily. But a helpful barometer nonetheless!
This is the burning question every staker needs answered when evaluating their options.
While spreadsheet pros can crunch it manually, an integrated, user-friendly tool in the UI would turbocharge the process.
Faster staking means quicker governance eligibility, accelerating RToken decentralization—a massive win for everyone involved!
Not sure if ABC Labs has the bandwidth to build this or it would be better suited as a Confusion Capital grant to an independent dev, adding yet one more important spoke to the wheel of the Reserve ecosystem. Maybe @starl3xx@Sinatra can weigh in?
Until slick version is built we may just have to use and keep improving the google spreadsheet. Fun fact: “RToken yield update” was a manual graphic for 9 months before we got the Earn page on Register.
