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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

651–700 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
6513ytgyJXpm3…z79gpJ4.56%derived3%1.01M87.6Good
6522DTXh3ruMU…Qfda3V4.71%derived0%1.01M100.0Excellent
6535essVpBYvo…LR4dRn4.47%5%1.04M79.4Good
654CwyVpfmfSi…zcBuD24.71%derived0%1.06M100.0Excellent
65558KprHKFNH…WjtESn4.71%derived0%1.10M100.0Excellent
656FWwwP9tNtt…MiLFTH4.71%derived0%1.15M100.0Excellent
6576xWLi1TDSh…wgunS84.52%5%1.18M83.6Good
6585Us18hLZPX…sf5nBS0.00%100%1.21M0.0Poor
659DcTPJqPNrT…Ev7KPZ4.71%derived0%1.23M100.0Excellent
6607cVfgArChe…5xkxXy4.43%6%1.24M75.5Good
661HLnodbYkL5…2L6St94.71%derived0%1.24M100.0Excellent
662EXckihF3qm…MMnDMm4.16%10%1.25M58.8Degraded
6635DYpYgKgHV…Am56bG0.00%100%1.25M0.0Poor
664privaEdSEm…7C5wUM—100%1.32M0.0Poor
665G3a3iYZKNL…DNKkBQ—100%1.32M0.0Poor
6666TkKqq15wX…Yme1ea4.71%derived0%1.33M100.0Excellent
667bitHUmbKSQ…duUHfb—100%1.34M0.0Poor
6687y5VhV4fkz…NWkWRL4.71%derived0%1.36M100.0Excellent
669Ninja1spj6…firmjs4.71%derived0%1.38M100.0Excellent
670A9mvukTd77…tA8FAC4.47%5%1.38M79.7Good
671CfgRXmp1LE…RxVSoW4.71%derived0%1.39M100.0Excellent
672HSDTxfgrqY…BSLoQJ4.47%derived5%1.40M79.4Good
673CMPSSdrTnR…5z6gbd4.71%derived0%1.41M100.0Excellent
674AMukCLCr52…aR6DJF4.66%1%1.43M96.2Excellent
675GYx8kpp7Ss…ky3YGQ—100%1.44M0.0Poor
6766aDs9tUm2g…aWQYd44.33%8%1.46M67.1Degraded
6779W3QTgBhkU…JmWws74.33%derived8%1.49M67.1Degraded
678Df16xM2XWz…yS4r654.47%5%1.53M79.3Good
679BkoS26vBua…8KsLHd4.33%8%1.54M66.8Degraded
680CW9C7HBwAM…Vacd1A4.33%8%1.59M66.8Degraded
681pSo1KZXgG1…kVnkfc4.52%derived4%1.60M—Insufficient data
682ChorusmmK7…1EH15n4.51%8%1.62M82.9Good
683EUcJwf7jXs…62XctB0.00%100%1.64M0.0Poor
684722RdWmHC5…z6Xzbp4.43%6%1.66M75.6Good
685HTeRsa3gm3…u2u3Jo4.24%10%1.78M59.1Degraded
6865TGfVQV1S3…VYsf1j4.71%derived0%1.81M0.0Poor
6878gDfqHXZ5e…Ct2LoM4.71%derived0%1.82M—Insufficient data
688HbidP4hpQd…napD2p—100%1.84M0.0Poor
689CQdLgwkmmH…Tmow124.71%derived0%1.84M—Insufficient data
6903JotfSFPao…kJNhrt—100%1.84M0.0Poor
6917QQGNm3ptw…7nwLpE—100%1.88M0.0Poor
692FzQqaDStQQ…oFZwaS0.00%100%1.88M0.0Poor
693FBbqKvwLfK…BkSe894.65%1%1.91M95.0Excellent
694DNVZMSqeRH…23eWkf4.66%1%1.92M95.9Excellent
695BUv44cVtsd…5ARyyB0.00%100%1.94M0.0Poor
6962m1A2WM1vt…UjoAAb0.00%100%2.01M0.0Poor
697AWcCdYG7Dy…3QrVRV0.00%100%2.01M0.0Poor
698AEHqTB2RtJ…6kqTBD—100%2.08M0.0Poor
6996ptuwW4rg5…TGJwWG—100%2.14M0.0Poor
700HnfPZDrbJF…yMCgML—100%2.18M0.0Poor
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