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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

551–600 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
551mds2fZEpJP…YCwjrq4.24%10%58K58.8Degraded
552scb2TYPmwH…bCKZZR4.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
553mds3Df1ieB…cjiCdq4.24%10%57K58.8Degraded
554mds4GEuiSg…LHcT6Z4.24%derived10%341K58.8Degraded
555revtecFsGS…4fyH5K4.24%derived10%113K58.8Degraded
556sce1oTWYVX…Si5tgE4.24%derived10%59K58.8Degraded
557sce3TfT81r…6WLSzE4.24%derived10%59K58.8Degraded
5588NpDWRcKHk…GSdSgr4.23%10%243K58.8Degraded
559GEM1N1UE3C…YjUReR4.23%10%764K58.8Degraded
5602Df1aLCRYi…GJfR9E4.23%10%542K58.8Degraded
561TREEir31Fs…ha88dA4.23%5%220K58.8Degraded
562GHQsq6bAdg…83gctU4.19%5%208K58.8Degraded
563GvfaiJUhNC…fyhrbt4.18%5%145K58.8Degraded
5643iSQtPgkZB…38bKsE4.18%10%799K58.8Degraded
565EXckihF3qm…MMnDMm4.16%10%1.25M58.8Degraded
566AbvfvRfKHD…xQxg1x4.15%10%167K58.8Degraded
567ppppoqHcHV…rziyHE4.14%5%121K58.8Degraded
568kyzzzgRymG…vz1xgj4.11%5%113K58.8Degraded
569FGiEdzde7F…mCzHiS4.10%5%128K58.8Degraded
5705ghoFEVrsX…EBXkHV4.04%5%65K58.8Degraded
571juigBT2qet…FKkqY64.01%5%334K58.8Degraded
5722mMGsb5uy1…PaVHHd4.00%5%528K58.8Degraded
5734W3jdXyqhL…xfjcKE3.98%5%51K58.8Degraded
574ChKZmewGBz…mR7g413.97%10%167K58.8Degraded
575EKgSCR3ahd…Kjqbz72.98%5%21K58.8Degraded
5768tjFeSApQ8…zNnYC72.82%40%1.00M58.8Degraded
577F6kVwubXEf…xSLa7S2.60%10%100K58.8Degraded
578gojir4WnhS…WAHEmw2.55%5%129K58.8Degraded
579Atom7LRkdX…WE8Z3S0.95%80%24K58.8Degraded
580BLUEHGDihX…XaJokR0.47%90%65K58.8Degraded
581GoeW4aFK4d…53tDK94.24%10%2.69M58.4Degraded
582Fc6NNdS2j3…YbULGD4.15%5%3.97M56.4Degraded
583GnC339vkyX…91qta64.16%7%4.84M55.6Degraded
5845Cchr1XGEg…6rq9Ux0.00%100%5.65M0.0Poor
585EkvdKhULbM…mi6C1f0.00%100%4.11M0.0Poor
586BtsmiEEvnS…J1DAaH0.00%100%4.05M0.0Poor
587FBKFWadXZJ…oUjeNi0.00%100%4.05M0.0Poor
5885ZqveVffQP…jSq9qk0.00%100%4.01M0.0Poor
589Hz5aLvpKSc…ekk8m50.00%100%3.94M0.0Poor
590A1vqhA2fS6…tHANy40.00%100%3.93M0.0Poor
591GSTampk6BJ…p83XKc0.00%100%2.50M0.0Poor
5925ejbTALcBs…LiYj1z0.00%100%2.50M0.0Poor
5933SkE34PVeG…NXNzXd0.00%100%2.50M0.0Poor
594FbYX2uN573…YUuT4k0.00%100%2.41M0.0Poor
59522rU5yUmdV…v4bJDU0.00%100%2.32M0.0Poor
596AWcCdYG7Dy…3QrVRV0.00%100%2.01M0.0Poor
5972m1A2WM1vt…UjoAAb0.00%100%2.01M0.0Poor
598BUv44cVtsd…5ARyyB0.00%100%1.94M0.0Poor
599FzQqaDStQQ…oFZwaS0.00%100%1.88M0.0Poor
600EUcJwf7jXs…62XctB0.00%100%1.64M0.0Poor
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