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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
451BNtHBLo1L2…jtubrg4.48%5%206K80.4Good
45291oPXTs2oq…SctwMt4.45%5%206K77.9Good
453puffinQSvK…r1jsyy4.71%derived0%206K100.0Excellent
454Ed9WjPnZfA…Fva2Zv4.71%derived0%207K100.0Excellent
4552Gfd4mkMqD…zdaRwe4.71%derived0%208K100.0Excellent
456GHQsq6bAdg…83gctU4.19%5%208K58.8Degraded
457SLAY6uN1zZ…fS3n414.47%derived5%209K79.4Good
4585pZvwjSpGY…M3YcNT4.38%5%209K71.8Degraded
459ECZx4Dfyn2…bWgrdU4.71%derived0%209K100.0Excellent
460idCE5k2BtT…QP7LY74.46%5%210K78.5Good
461EdGevanA2M…EyE9hy4.71%derived0%211K100.0Excellent
462GwHH8ciFhR…5tBvji4.71%derived0%211K100.0Excellent
4635marvipGzf…D3V4ou4.28%5%211K63.2Degraded
464svsD6T44XJ…y8Jsj34.71%derived0%213K100.0Excellent
465NordEHiwa6…2b6cv34.71%derived0%214K100.0Excellent
466JC7bH7HSZo…QfG5er4.47%derived5%215K79.4Good
467AsMpvJ3DZ2…tE1bWr4.71%derived0%215K100.0Excellent
4688pyp3vfVPR…DcRV3w4.65%1%218K94.7Excellent
469AQDCuNe1ao…f9dTNM4.71%derived0%218K—Insufficient data
470grptonHnt7…CfzzPa4.71%derived0%218K100.0Excellent
4714b1onMDEas…eZUkck4.71%derived0%219K100.0Excellent
4728W8v28d1fB…Usob6Z4.46%5%219K78.8Good
473BTGPbq4KuF…sZnMLb4.46%5%220K78.4Good
474TREEir31Fs…ha88dA4.23%5%220K58.8Degraded
4753s97yjq2Mh…vrQPw54.71%derived0%221K100.0Excellent
476sTEAKPk59E…gUfbiW4.46%5%221K78.3Good
4778a4juhtQSc…GBnKu84.71%derived0%221K100.0Excellent
4784DraK9wUrM…we6e514.46%5%221K78.4Good
479GiYSnFRrXr…X2WpDe4.38%5%222K71.1Degraded
480DViARWAWKk…wgVUKX4.71%derived0%224K100.0Excellent
481FwnWx7x99r…6LivgZ4.48%5%224K80.0Good
482BeSovDCzhE…teNzXM4.71%derived0%226K100.0Excellent
483spcti6GQVv…mK4M5F4.71%derived0%227K100.0Excellent
484zeroT6PTAE…DcuidX4.32%5%227K65.8Degraded
485DnQBmTJyLb…VRGnG44.42%5%227K75.3Good
486PAWsME7oYb…r9YAZ64.71%derived0%228K100.0Excellent
487AHNX2YiD8S…JMVedb4.33%8%232K67.0Degraded
4889GHvMeJ4ZW…y4MZJQ4.71%derived0%234K—Insufficient data
4898NpDWRcKHk…GSdSgr4.23%10%243K58.8Degraded
490ABC1U4cf9D…EJthwY4.46%5%243K78.2Good
491vALigXFg9w…doniBY4.41%4%245K74.5Degraded
4928BwBBt23a6…2DxGvR4.49%3%245K81.3Good
4932gDeeRa3mw…r8uibX4.71%derived0%246K100.0Excellent
494mD1afZhSis…EfFX1e4.46%5%248K78.2Good
495ETcW7iuVra…MPmXTc4.71%derived0%249K100.0Excellent
4967VZM7YHcX7…A7Y2xn4.47%5%250K79.1Good
497icex1C6pnZ…7XXrXE4.48%5%251K80.5Good
498SLNDCSGTEs…tRpdU24.46%5%252K78.2Good
499soLStaCk5T…826e9N4.71%derived0%253K100.0Excellent
500Tri1F8B6Yt…TT7ZG34.48%5%254K80.0Good
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