Storagenode Payout Update: 2026 September

The information is already shared in other threads, but I am creating a new one to make it easier to follow.

In this month we payout:

  • the difference between August pre-payment and reality
    • (including the ~15-20% of off-calculation of prepayment
  • the real usage from last 5 days of July (post Chapter 11 period of July)
  • prepayment for September based on estimated usage (using new rates)

This image shows that we paid out every month, but due to legal bounds, the recent payouts were slightly more complicated.

Green is already paid, yellow is in-progress.

The numbers in the rounded rectangles are the unique identifier of the usage calculation (so called paystubs) and payments in our system. These records are synchronized with the storagenode. Proper representation on the SN web UI will be improved with new releases.

The payment has been started yesterday, but for technical reason we need to do it in multiple weaves.

Progress can be followed by checking the wallet what we use:

https://etherscan.io/address/0x303EDCD8DbE1607fe512D45CC15d3E41fa4db44B

My usage is always higher than my payout. I saw no delays in payouts. Is it because they are really just deductions from the total I pay to storj, and not actual payments?

Does it confirmed by your payout history?

The avg usage always far from the reality.

Maybe I worded it incorrectly. By usage I intend usage as a customer of storj, as I am both customer and SNO. Every month I always pay much more than what I get from running my node. So it’s a discount, not an actual payment: I just get a credit note, no actual funds. My credit notes did not change noticeably in those months.

Of course, it’s expected. We need to have a some profit after all expenses.

Exactly how is the difference in the token price handled? For the upcoming payments, now that the token has increased by double digits, how will that price difference be managed?

As always, you earn in USD and conversion is done at the time of payment.

No Zksync payments, no matter what node configuration says, right?

only a few people received this month payment, it’s still going, right?

What is the reference date Storj uses to determine the token amount for a node?

  • Is it just before the tokens are sent (minutes or seconds before sending)?
  • Is it the day before?
  • Is it at the end of the according month?
  • Anything else?

From here: https://forum.storj.io/t/storagenode-payout-update-august-prepayments-and-july-2026-status/32266/10

Yep. No ZkSync. L1 only.

Yep. Not yet finished. See the end of my announcement. We need to do it in multiple weaves.

Previous seconds.

(BTW, our payment system is open source, you can check with LLM: GitHub - storj/crypto-batch-payment: A high volume ERC20 token payment application. · GitHub)

Do you have a value for the payout threshold this round?

Where is the reference Storj token value taken from? Some specific exchanges?

waiting for next waves..

coinmarketcap API, spot price

Do you mean the small payments?

Currently we use the default 4x threshold_divisor, which means payout should be ≥ 4 × estimated fee. It’s dynamic, and depends on the current ETH and gas prices, but with current prices I would expect it to be less than 0.1 USD.

PAYOUTS just started outgoing!
SWAP ASAP on receive!
https://etherscan.io/address/0x303edcd8dbe1607fe512d45cc15d3e41fa4db44b#tokentxns

thank you, I swapped it instantly inside encrypt walet.

Are payments over for today?