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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

501–550 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
501qZMH9GWnnB…xDQrbP4.71%derived0%276K100.0Excellent
5022mDrrmhSzp…iJDby24.71%derived0%274K100.0Excellent
503ALPHA6rdHZ…tZ1T7R4.71%derived0%265K100.0Excellent
504soLStaCk5T…826e9N4.71%derived0%253K100.0Excellent
505ETcW7iuVra…MPmXTc4.71%derived0%249K100.0Excellent
5062gDeeRa3mw…r8uibX4.71%derived0%246K100.0Excellent
507PAWsME7oYb…r9YAZ64.71%derived0%228K100.0Excellent
508spcti6GQVv…mK4M5F4.71%derived0%227K100.0Excellent
509BeSovDCzhE…teNzXM4.71%derived0%226K100.0Excellent
510DViARWAWKk…wgVUKX4.71%derived0%224K100.0Excellent
5118a4juhtQSc…GBnKu84.71%derived0%221K100.0Excellent
5123s97yjq2Mh…vrQPw54.71%derived0%221K100.0Excellent
5134b1onMDEas…eZUkck4.71%derived0%219K100.0Excellent
514grptonHnt7…CfzzPa4.71%derived0%218K100.0Excellent
515AsMpvJ3DZ2…tE1bWr4.71%derived0%215K100.0Excellent
516NordEHiwa6…2b6cv34.71%derived0%214K100.0Excellent
517svsD6T44XJ…y8Jsj34.71%derived0%213K100.0Excellent
518GwHH8ciFhR…5tBvji4.71%derived0%211K100.0Excellent
519EdGevanA2M…EyE9hy4.71%derived0%211K100.0Excellent
520ECZx4Dfyn2…bWgrdU4.71%derived0%209K100.0Excellent
5212Gfd4mkMqD…zdaRwe4.71%derived0%208K100.0Excellent
522Ed9WjPnZfA…Fva2Zv4.71%derived0%207K100.0Excellent
523puffinQSvK…r1jsyy4.71%derived0%206K100.0Excellent
524THWsLPufeq…ztG8x14.71%derived0%201K100.0Excellent
5259FXD1NXrK6…uDfm2e4.71%derived0%197K100.0Excellent
526ciTyjzN9iy…Er6cQj4.71%derived0%195K100.0Excellent
527H9ENbtmy2t…aG8L2T4.71%derived0%189K100.0Excellent
528popscoyTKV…MQopKu4.71%derived0%188K100.0Excellent
5298yjHdsCgx3…KJBqhN4.71%derived0%188K100.0Excellent
5308GLRbAstsa…yofEz74.71%derived0%183K100.0Excellent
531sbidYi7fbi…sKqNux4.71%derived0%179K100.0Excellent
532CVRr5oHCAA…Vu8v8e4.71%derived0%177K100.0Excellent
5334VrjyXQT61…Lotq3n4.71%derived0%175K100.0Excellent
534nymsGg7ZXc…LPyGDV4.71%derived0%172K100.0Excellent
535GmCxjmjKZo…fofaF54.71%derived0%168K100.0Excellent
536parafiUS6h…Tq46dS4.71%derived0%167K100.0Excellent
5377MTjmteQHh…NxHFGE4.71%derived5%166K100.0Excellent
538vaoJKVZYPA…QaEiva4.71%derived0%166K100.0Excellent
5398AkVj5aAtJ…DjZv7c4.71%derived0%165K100.0Excellent
540GFXVa19rX6…DRo23V4.71%derived0%164K100.0Excellent
5418LDyyeJQTj…WSTt8D4.71%derived0%162K100.0Excellent
542CVgwMrWo9c…eNubr64.71%derived5%155K100.0Excellent
5436k1YkmTKwP…L9jycB4.71%derived0%153K100.0Excellent
544A23LfQn6kh…YQgiX24.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
545MagiCBYNPD…XQZxuV4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
5462X7WoaXX9K…jWRthz4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
547HLXxkmjb47…Emh2Qh4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
548Ste1115xFG…327zty4.71%derived0%149K100.0Excellent
5497nzTzRZzez…uYzt7A4.71%derived0%148K100.0Excellent
550AiBEt9kE8y…3zrLfu4.71%derived0%148K100.0Excellent
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