⚠️ Reminder for DOT nominators With the new issuance curve now live, staking yields have dropped noticeably. • Previously: around 10% APY • Now: roughly 5–6% APY (depending on validator commission and stake distribution) This change comes after Polkadot’s tokenomics reset, which reduced annual DOT issuance to about 55 million DOT. However, this is before another major change takes effect. The DAP upgrade, which will decouple validator and nominator rewards, has not been implemented yet. Once it is live, nominator rewards will come directly from allocations within the DAP, rather than the current staking reward structure. How exactly those rewards will be distributed and what the final yield will look like is still unclear. Originally, the idea was to establish an economics fellowship via OpenGov to periodically adjust these parameters. Whether the @Web3foundation economists will propose the first set of parameters remains to be seen. A simpler way to think about it might be this: DAP could function somewhat like a “bank” for DOT. You lock your DOT in a DAP allocation pool, and in return receive yield. What that yield will be is still unknown, it could be 5%, 10%, or even higher. Higher yields would likely encourage more DOT to be locked, while lower yields could lead to more DOT circulating in the market. For now, this is something the community will need to watch closely as the details evolve.