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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

601–650 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
601SWiz7QwnYP…cB2cov4.71%derived5%99K100.0Excellent
602HMWXfjaeSH…MXbDGH4.71%derived0%97K100.0Excellent
6033DaPk6TdeG…gYK8BV4.71%derived0%97K100.0Excellent
6045fSQdv4zsA…RJB9NE4.71%derived5%96K100.0Excellent
605BCJN2vZFAH…3mSWuh4.71%derived0%95K100.0Excellent
606vahMVcSS3v…1P7L424.71%derived0%94K100.0Excellent
607By8MseMKtZ…3ktrHt4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
608CpgSfd6QUo…fSbNEE4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
6092uxEHizFmm…xjt87m4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
610BxkAkLR2W3…st99KY4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
611KTMkUG8WCw…HHbsNM4.71%derived0%91K100.0Excellent
612LitxAVo3Rn…PZjZwE4.71%derived0%90K100.0Excellent
6139ueKvL3WiL…ibx1Zq4.71%derived0%90K100.0Excellent
614nodeEgRVkb…jMfN1D4.71%derived0%86K100.0Excellent
6156xFDLX751L…PDbWoJ4.71%derived0%85K100.0Excellent
6165ysfTZ42VT…YKDs5d4.71%derived0%84K100.0Excellent
617BuonuQoAR7…zaJ97G4.71%derived4%84K100.0Excellent
618FphFJA451q…KxxQ1q4.71%derived5%83K100.0Excellent
6197PpXQgDb9e…qvaJXd4.71%derived0%83K100.0Excellent
620Fy7RCjDdFL…dUHf5o4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
6211Link6hB1N…U8PRDG4.71%derived5%81K100.0Excellent
6223CKKAoVi94…kSUofX4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
6237HMHSdQkjD…KXcKt54.71%derived5%81K100.0Excellent
624DupN8puwoP…axyUG44.71%derived5%80K100.0Excellent
625FyLVPAKkgd…UnC8uA4.71%derived0%75K100.0Excellent
6267knvB4bbqH…LdRfkx4.71%derived0%74K100.0Excellent
627NoditgWLFb…M4EJpu4.71%derived0%72K100.0Excellent
628D1A4F2yh38…SSePKe4.71%derived0%70K100.0Excellent
6298aySXUFrqJ…BpKmHK4.71%derived0%66K100.0Excellent
630MargusJeV9…go8Tfj4.71%derived0%62K100.0Excellent
6319bkyxgYxRr…dH2Uvr4.71%derived0%61K100.0Excellent
632CTDGxTK789…YYqXxC4.71%derived5%60K100.0Excellent
6332icWF7Tvxy…qUij1B4.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
634CVGwNaC1Fa…MyHnw64.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
635DeepM3FDWa…78z51p4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
6362nhGaJvR17…gRdQot4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
637FdH9QEQBxP…RjTQwj4.71%derived0%53K100.0Excellent
638B94PGWcxE9…pQxh6S4.71%derived0%52K100.0Excellent
63971F3mXrwgu…XEhaPy4.71%derived0%51K100.0Excellent
640GqDCbnafLm…82jPUf4.71%derived0%50K100.0Excellent
6412jS8AX38m8…SJcWwo4.71%derived0%47K100.0Excellent
6427pR7t5axFf…5MmHTB4.71%derived0%45K100.0Excellent
643rssaJ2iKcE…GMzWQr4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
644DEU4agzdUC…r823Uu4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
645ssx2rHZNVy…uhb4774.71%derived0%42K100.0Excellent
6467Nn8qBJey7…uf49yV4.71%derived0%40K100.0Excellent
647suoHAQF4NJ…XTsu5U4.71%derived0%37K100.0Excellent
648omeg2wsojz…oXCwSd4.71%derived4%36K100.0Excellent
6493DaifGfDES…uggHVe4.71%derived0%34K100.0Excellent
65049j9bnkdgV…8ijBrb4.71%derived5%33K100.0Excellent
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