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Staking

Solana staking

What delegating actually paid, recovered from the rewards the chain issued rather than modelled from an inflation rate. Solana is the one chain measured here where that is possible: it publishes what every validator was paid, every epoch.

What the chain is paying

epoch 1020 · 1 epoch observed

Gross rate, measured

4.71%

Median of every payment the chain made

Gross rate, protocol

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Needs total supply, which this endpoint will not serve

Total staked

433.44MSOL

Share of supply unavailable

Cluster slots skipped

0.05%

Assigned slots that produced no block

The two gross rates are computed from inputs that share nothing. One is the median of every payment the chain actually made; the other is inflation multiplied by supply and divided by total stake. They agree, and that agreement is what makes either publishable — a single unexplained number would be worth no more here than it is anywhere else.

Rates are annualised at 182.6 epochs a year, from Solana’s 400 ms target slot time. No full epoch has been observed end to end yet; once one has, the measured length replaces the target. Real epochs run slightly longer, so this figure is if anything a little generous.

How the set is actually paid

751 validators

A single network rate says almost nothing about what a delegation pays, because the set it averages over is not shaped like a bell. These are the three distributions the headline hides.

What a delegation earns

Net annual return after commission, in whole per cent. The lowest column holds two different things — validators that pay a little, and validators that take the whole reward — so it is labelled rather than coloured.

01234

net APR, %

What validators charge

Commission is bimodal, not spread: most validators sit at one end or the other, so the average commission describes almost nobody.

01–56–91011–5051–99100

commission, %

Where the stake sits

Cumulative share of stake against validator count. Delegating to a validator already near the top of this curve is what makes it steeper.

a third0%50%100%110100Solana validators: the top 1 hold 3.9%Solana validators: the top 5 hold 15.2%Solana validators: the top 10 hold 23.9%Solana validators: the top 20 hold 34.6%Solana validators: the top 50 hold 54.2%Solana validators: the top 100 hold 71.4%Solana validators: the top 250 hold 87.9%Solana validators: the top 500 hold 97.2%Solana validators: the top 751 hold 100.0%

validators, cumulative

Every validator

6-epoch window

Ordered by what a delegation would have earned, after commission. A validator’s advertised rate is not what it pays: the two things that separate them are the commission they take and the share of their assigned slots they actually produce.

How to read a rate

  • Measured— Recovered from a payment the chain made to this validator
  • Derived— The cohort's measured rate with this validator's commission and block production applied
  • Pays nothing— Commission of 100%: every reward is taken before the delegator sees it

451–500 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
4516XKqyUVUcp…y4Ps1U4.71%derived0%742K100.0Excellent
4527EzbSahSfS…QnEtjE4.71%derived0%696K100.0Excellent
4534SsMncJdtK…W4reWC4.71%derived0%651K100.0Excellent
454HM1KjNaXa4…KeBW3L4.71%derived0%646K100.0Excellent
455HarmonicyK…8WMyZi4.71%derived0%641K100.0Excellent
4562Wf9V9rPeV…2DuMDc4.71%derived0%627K100.0Excellent
457EdFUcP2f6j…Zrsk6w4.71%derived0%626K100.0Excellent
458Frog1Fks1A…2Kz5Ch4.71%derived0%624K100.0Excellent
459STKEsvUSpD…Vkgd1t4.71%derived0%608K100.0Excellent
460bkpk9KVsDR…MGiR8Z4.71%derived0%569K100.0Excellent
461anza1rXDVh…ibSAJd4.71%derived0%553K100.0Excellent
462E5UXkzUxqE…wgRGDT4.71%derived0%551K100.0Excellent
463GREEDkgav1…GwmNKc4.71%derived0%550K100.0Excellent
464FLwV8tm3pL…wrfega4.71%derived0%535K100.0Excellent
465Cogent51kH…d4ypdA4.71%derived0%502K100.0Excellent
466Cu9Ls6dsTL…5FRq864.71%derived0%495K100.0Excellent
4678cqck84cox…3oGmu84.71%derived0%485K100.0Excellent
468HnrXmm65Cy…6BxTYA4.71%derived0%467K100.0Excellent
4696vG7fgweSf…TKNjUW4.71%derived0%460K100.0Excellent
4703RXKQBRv7x…Mf5LnS4.71%derived0%401K100.0Excellent
4714Nwpynvugn…gMiYDr4.71%derived0%393K100.0Excellent
472CVvaeDPR2o…aEL4Cm4.71%derived0%391K100.0Excellent
4734k6wgP5WPB…eG5zSF4.71%derived0%379K100.0Excellent
474Bi9kKNxfW2…LyVoQ44.71%derived0%370K100.0Excellent
475AurseT3W3t…74teU34.71%derived0%365K100.0Excellent
476WUNoB9YQXm…YwJVwp4.71%derived0%365K100.0Excellent
4779xcXe4WRAf…7PeczT4.71%derived0%363K100.0Excellent
478FyrwfMaomE…JD6d4j4.71%derived0%357K100.0Excellent
4799WzPWqKSqb…Wp28KR4.71%derived0%352K100.0Excellent
480Diman2GphW…diDZau4.71%derived0%339K100.0Excellent
481BEsnodYCgi…fRHUTG4.71%derived0%338K100.0Excellent
482D1Vbgkrhp1…R8QMC14.71%derived0%317K100.0Excellent
4833WDh9HgusC…1Awo354.71%derived0%316K100.0Excellent
4844XspXDcJy3…jmWWNy4.71%derived0%311K100.0Excellent
485gUvo3g5LfH…hwYqis4.71%derived0%308K100.0Excellent
486CEL22Qx7p8…ZdT8Ns4.71%derived0%303K100.0Excellent
4879AW87WqARQ…NUXDPD4.71%derived0%302K100.0Excellent
488HT41udB8mL…iviXk54.71%derived0%302K100.0Excellent
4899gFxqsXbFy…QoXrUJ4.71%derived0%299K100.0Excellent
490BULKzVM41W…xraf8b4.71%derived0%297K100.0Excellent
491BoNKmNCGvo…A4t5as4.71%derived0%284K100.0Excellent
492FNTPSUuRpD…YUfNRL4.71%derived0%282K100.0Excellent
493EQhTjikb1L…peM44W4.71%derived0%279K100.0Excellent
494qZMH9GWnnB…xDQrbP4.71%derived0%276K100.0Excellent
4952mDrrmhSzp…iJDby24.71%derived0%274K100.0Excellent
496ALPHA6rdHZ…tZ1T7R4.71%derived0%265K100.0Excellent
497soLStaCk5T…826e9N4.71%derived0%253K100.0Excellent
498ETcW7iuVra…MPmXTc4.71%derived0%249K100.0Excellent
4992gDeeRa3mw…r8uibX4.71%derived0%246K100.0Excellent
500PAWsME7oYb…r9YAZ64.71%derived0%228K100.0Excellent
Take it awayCSV— Solana staking yieldsJSON— Solana staking yieldsevery validator, not only the filtered view

Rates are annualised from completed epochs. A measured rate is recovered from the payment the chain made to the validator's vote account; a derived rate is the cohort's own measured gross rate with this validator's commission and block production applied, used where no payment can be inverted — at zero commission there is nothing to invert.

How a rate is arrived at

Measured

The chain reports what it paid a validator’s vote account, which is that validator’s commission on its delegators’ rewards — not the rewards themselves. Those are paid straight into individual stake accounts and are not reported anywhere.

So the commission is divided back out. A validator charging 7% that was paid 351 SOL earned its delegators 351 ÷ 0.07 × 0.93 between them.

Derived, and why it is needed

Dividing by zero recovers nothing, and roughly half of Solana’s validators charge no commission at all — so for them there is no payment to invert. The same applies where a validator’s stake has changed so much since it was paid that the two figures no longer describe the same moment.

Those rows use the rate the rest of the cohort was measurably paid, with this validator’s own commission and block production applied — and they say so, on every row.

Neither figure includes MEV. Jito tips are distributed outside the protocol’s own reward mechanism and are not visible in what the chain reports here, so a validator running Jito may pay more than this page shows. It is not estimated here. Full methodology