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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
451EUDis6LJeJ…unC2Ej4.47%derived5%369K79.4Good
452EvnRmnMrd6…JXqDo44.40%7%7.51M67.9Degraded
453EW8DFK4LPY…FeQtxE4.71%derived0%450K—Insufficient data
454EWARp8Syq8…wpgQ6m4.50%5%65—delinquent
455Ex1AxFCipX…HiXAaT4.61%2%893K91.8Excellent
456ExCHWgfeJy…GNqjWD4.47%5%103K79.6Good
457EXckihF3qm…MMnDMm4.16%10%1.25M58.8Degraded
458Ey3DkEVbfB…jjkykf4.53%4%145K84.2Good
459EydLxzdWfD…CRUkJ44.48%5%136K80.6Good
460eyeYaqg9e2…8TXNoK4.46%5%111K78.2Good
461F6kVwubXEf…xSLa7S2.60%10%100K58.8Degraded
462FACb6bbTDR…YAMv2o4.51%4%291K82.5Good
463Fb77sbwgXm…xxiCSf4.71%derived0%1—delinquent
464FBbqKvwLfK…BkSe894.65%1%1.91M95.0Excellent
465FBKFWadXZJ…oUjeNi0.00%100%4.05M0.0Poor
466FbYX2uN573…YUuT4k0.00%100%2.41M0.0Poor
467Fc6NNdS2j3…YbULGD4.15%5%3.97M56.4Degraded
468FCWkGAHDWK…ezUnpr4.46%5%187K78.1Good
469Fd7btgySsr…2v69Nk4.40%7%17.82M64.4Degraded
470FdH9QEQBxP…RjTQwj4.71%derived0%53K100.0Excellent
471fdzip81euD…RBfBYG4.46%5%192K78.3Good
472FFevTkywys…hJiYnr4.47%derived5%35K79.4Good
473FGiEdzde7F…mCzHiS4.10%5%128K58.8Degraded
474FhFB8MAj5K…eQ1evD—100%00.0Poor
475fhsM2sxME8…HeYZxe4.47%5%139K79.4Good
476fishfishrD…QPMJqF4.47%5%505K79.3Good
477FjYEr2UCeF…c7SLQL4.52%5%131K84.1Good
478FLVgaCPvSG…MtkwQJ4.47%derived5%9—delinquent
479FLwV8tm3pL…wrfega4.71%derived0%535K100.0Excellent
480FNKgX9dYUh…zfqB8a4.42%8%3.54M73.2Degraded
481FNTPSUuRpD…YUfNRL4.71%derived0%282K100.0Excellent
482FoigPJ6kL6…xc1f8H0.00%100%61K0.0Poor
483forb5u56Xg…qL6P7q4.46%5%90K78.3Good
484FoXyHJXdQG…PS9eAk4.45%5%82K78.0Good
485FphFJA451q…KxxQ1q4.71%derived5%83K100.0Excellent
486Frog1Fks1A…2Kz5Ch4.71%derived0%624K100.0Excellent
487FsEq1UFSuc…z9qY2W4.24%derived10%0—Insufficient data
488FSyAsxcE7g…zh3Nbi4.71%derived100%3K—delinquent
489Fudp7uPDYN…i3PBzS4.46%5%204K78.1Good
490FwnWx7x99r…6LivgZ4.48%5%224K80.0Good
491FWwwP9tNtt…MiLFTH4.71%derived0%1.15M100.0Excellent
492Fy7RCjDdFL…dUHf5o4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
493FyLVPAKkgd…UnC8uA4.71%derived0%75K100.0Excellent
494FyrwfMaomE…JD6d4j4.71%derived0%357K100.0Excellent
495FzQqaDStQQ…oFZwaS0.00%100%1.88M0.0Poor
496G1eAmANVWf…k5hZqN4.47%5%106K79.5Good
497G2TBEh2ahN…8b6KfH4.71%derived0%909K100.0Excellent
498G3a3iYZKNL…DNKkBQ—100%1.32M0.0Poor
499G4GT8z4AKW…4GvWdU4.71%derived0%101K100.0Excellent
500G8kUFxhR7e…Bo55kJ4.48%5%257K79.8Good
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