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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

701–750 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
701CoG8d9Fp2T…svRgmJ4.71%derived0%2.19M100.0Excellent
7027qGNnXKW1e…tRyMQc4.71%derived0%2.24M100.0Excellent
7036WgdYhhGE5…mBtAHN4.24%10%2.31M59.0Degraded
70422rU5yUmdV…v4bJDU0.00%100%2.32M0.0Poor
705FbYX2uN573…YUuT4k0.00%100%2.41M0.0Poor
706ana2y2YvQ3…q9xcfY4.71%derived0%2.49M99.6Excellent
7072GUnfxZavK…CS1rSx—100%2.50M0.0Poor
708Aw5wEMXhby…WPk1ex—100%2.50M0.0Poor
709DUND26mEDf…EWzYw4—100%2.50M0.0Poor
710HpcB5Qg8Y9…bCuKac—100%2.50M0.0Poor
7113SkE34PVeG…NXNzXd0.00%100%2.50M0.0Poor
71276rcGHdPvg…S2TBBJ—100%2.50M0.0Poor
713BSVckjdW2f…xgEdwq—100%2.50M0.0Poor
714GQzMeEMwAR…6AgV460.00%100%2.50M0.0Poor
7155ejbTALcBs…LiYj1z0.00%100%2.50M0.0Poor
716GSTampk6BJ…p83XKc0.00%100%2.50M0.0Poor
7173psxMyr7rQ…t2sMQW4.47%5%2.61M79.1Good
718GoeW4aFK4d…53tDK94.24%10%2.69M58.4Degraded
719DrifTrN923…mZxatz4.71%derived0%2.81M99.1Excellent
7206y7V8dL673…DqsyrK—100%2.92M0.0Poor
721GBQ2GvTzmj…YXAAAA4.47%5%3.00M78.2Good
722krakeNd6ed…2mhXV14.28%10%3.35M60.9Degraded
723FNKgX9dYUh…zfqB8a4.42%8%3.54M73.2Degraded
7245EhGYUyQNr…vvULeC—100%3.60M0.0Poor
725shftkxnsXm…HfVikj4.71%derived0%3.65M98.0Excellent
7269UM8wQ8F5o…isJd9i4.61%2%3.75M89.6Good
72787CcUxpyR7…VMLJL54.71%derived0%3.85M—Insufficient data
728J6etcxDdYj…FPJEbK4.71%derived0%3.90M97.7Excellent
729A1vqhA2fS6…tHANy40.00%100%3.93M0.0Poor
730Hz5aLvpKSc…ekk8m50.00%100%3.94M0.0Poor
731Fc6NNdS2j3…YbULGD4.15%5%3.97M56.4Degraded
7325ZqveVffQP…jSq9qk0.00%100%4.01M0.0Poor
733FBKFWadXZJ…oUjeNi0.00%100%4.05M0.0Poor
734BtsmiEEvnS…J1DAaH0.00%100%4.05M0.0Poor
735EkvdKhULbM…mi6C1f0.00%100%4.11M0.0Poor
7369jxgosAfHg…eynGFP—100%4.61M0.0Poor
7379rkJMARqK6…gFNDSQ4.33%8%4.71M64.0Degraded
738GnC339vkyX…91qta64.16%7%4.84M55.6Degraded
7395Cchr1XGEg…6rq9Ux0.00%100%5.65M0.0Poor
7405pPRHniefF…GwHzSm4.50%5%5.95M77.9Good
741Awes4Tr6TX…yGvpLM4.71%derived0%6.41M95.6Excellent
742JD549HsbJH…UrHybB4.71%derived0%6.69M95.4Excellent
7439eGrDohdNT…xe8FoY4.47%5%6.81M74.7Degraded
744EvnRmnMrd6…JXqDo44.40%7%7.51M67.9Degraded
745C8Bey3LKVJ…99JP1k4.38%7%9.26M65.9Degraded
746CAo1dCGYrB…umSve44.25%10%9.27M54.4Degraded
747JUPiTERrZq…LT1h4b4.49%5%11.08M74.8Degraded
748E1r4Psq84t…5RdxHL4.71%derived0%11.22M93.2Excellent
749DRpbCBMxVn…km21hy4.71%derived0%12.32M92.9Excellent
750HEL1USMZKA…v1e2TU4.71%derived0%15.94M91.8Excellent
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