I have some questions regarding the distribution of rewards and fees between PoS (Proof of Stake) and PoW (Proof of Work)

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As the mainnet launch approaches, some people are considering whether they should prepare more SSDs or accumulate more ATC tokens to participate in PoS or PoW. They have some questions about the distribution of rewards.

For PoW (Farmers), they can earn both block rewards and transaction fees, and the total allocation for PoW in the tokenomics is fixed.

But where does the main income for PoS (Operators) come from? Is it only from transaction fees? That seems like too little. Will PoS have block rewards similar to ETH?

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Have you read through this section of the Academy? Rewards & Fees | Autonomys Academy

Feel free to come back for any clarifications required.

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Correct, its just transaction fees for operators.

You also don’t have to choose between the two though and just do both :slight_smile:

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BTW there is no PoW, there is Proof-of-Archival-Storage. There is no PoS either, it is just stake-based election mechanism for domains, operators don’t actually participate in consensus.

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