Short answer: at recent market rates, staked TRX earns ~15% a year combined — roughly ~3.3% from voting and ~11.9% from renting energy out (you’ll also see it called energy lending — same mechanism). Here’s what that looks like in actual TRX, by wallet size, and what makes the number move.
The worked example: 100,000 TRX
- Voting rewards: ~3,300 TRX/yr — about 9 TRX landing every day, claimable once per 24 hours, compounding only if someone claims, restakes and re-votes daily.
- Energy rental: ~11,900 TRX/yr net — call it ~33 TRX/day on average, arriving as payout transfers when fills happen, not as a smooth drip.
- Together: ~15,200 TRX/yr, or ~1,270 TRX a month. Energy is about four fifths of the total — which is why “just staking” leaves most of the money on the table.
Net matters: order books quote gross, and markets keep 25–30% of every deal. All numbers above are after those cuts — the arithmetic behind that is in TRON energy markets compared.
What changes with size
| stake | a year, roughly | the catch |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 TRX | ~1,400 TRX | fewer venues accept your fill sizes |
| 100,000 TRX | ~15,200 TRX | the model rate — all venues in reach |
| 1,000,000 TRX | ~152,000 TRX | fills spread across venues and days |
The mechanics behind the first row: markets set minimum fill sizes (TronSave ~100k energy per fill, TEM ~50k), so a small stake can only sell where small orders are taken — which trims the effective rate below the model. From ~100,000 TRX everything is in reach and the model rate applies. At whale sizes the question flips to demand depth: the energy sells, just across more orders and venues.
The compounding bonus
The table shows simple-rate numbers, deliberately — the rate itself floats more than compounding adds, and we’d rather understate. But the loop does compound: the engine restakes the wallet’s whole liquid balance daily — claimed voting rewards and landed rental payouts alike — so yesterday’s income starts earning today. Run at the model rate, daily compounding lifts ~15.2% nominal to ~16.4% effective; at 1,000,000 TRX that’s roughly +12,000 TRX a year on top of the table. It’s the quiet reward for a discipline that never skips a day — which is exactly what breaks first when the loop is run by hand.
What moves the rate
Energy prices float like any market: up when USDT traffic runs hot and demand for cheap transfers grows, down when more TRX gets staked and supply expands. Voting rewards are steadier but drift with total network stake too. That’s why everything here is a live model, not an APY promise — the honest way to read it is “this is what the machine earns at current prices”, re-measured every day.
Seeing your own number
Generic math only goes so far — the dashboard reads your actual stake and shows what it produces, and every rental it books is backed by an on-chain payout you can verify. For the mechanism behind all of this, start at how TRON energy rental works.