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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.

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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
701AYY1TCe347…ZiRoew4.71%derived0%11K—delinquent
7025ZjxMYBbnK…xUseHV4.71%derived0%3K—delinquent
703FSyAsxcE7g…zh3Nbi4.71%derived100%3K—delinquent
704mrgn4atx3J…72ncsS4.71%derived0%2K—delinquent
705ChaossRPGK…ZNz5d64.71%derived0%828—delinquent
706VicAQ3U2Gj…DKmdo74.71%derived5%284—delinquent
707CpdzCVzaR9…MBs6Rn4.71%derived100%193—delinquent
708inWVrrYJ38…LyqUWD4.71%derived0%14—delinquent
709gangtCrQg5…uS26vN4.71%derived0%1—delinquent
710ECNnK4VjcK…Mazmxi4.71%derived5%1—delinquent
711prt1st4RSx…sdYRXW4.47%5%6K—delinquent
7127ZjHeeYEes…pG2bZJ4.47%5%176—delinquent
713E4xNK4UwGn…3wEdGZ4.47%derived5%6K—delinquent
714HgozywotiK…KjWCtB4.47%derived100%790—delinquent
715kom1oNHyyt…9rWknE4.47%derived5%663—delinquent
716xLabscif2D…mZ1ARE4.46%5%3K—delinquent
7174YGgmwyqzt…K6zz6X4.42%3%63—delinquent
718AccReGBNBd…yqQuWm4.30%3%5K—delinquent
719ApVnoa3r3o…41VSu63.76%derived20%10K—delinquent
720toshB4tPQT…Wiexn24.71%derived0%161100.0Excellent
721FhFB8MAj5K…eQ1evD—100%00.0Poor
722Eu6FQvMfaV…MppVwa4.71%derived0%242—Insufficient data
723TiMxX1yasS…DhhDkG4.71%derived0%114—delinquent
724p1ayS5DGgr…m6ApAC4.71%derived0%12—delinquent
725jzDsimGW1g…YJ1to54.71%derived0%1—Insufficient data
726bcZxRSozXD…Xi5K8V4.71%derived0%0—Insufficient data
72751MH6LwUCr…GAKiU14.71%derived0%0—Insufficient data
728GfGB5BALiQ…MsQoVX4.56%derived3%0—Insufficient data
729EF3goezr7J…1EsaM64.47%derived5%5K—delinquent
7308Cia7Yc8Qz…2cGgzB4.47%derived5%641—delinquent
731FLVgaCPvSG…MtkwQJ4.47%derived5%9—delinquent
732stacheBmGG…ur3voH4.47%derived5%3—delinquent
733R1parD2Ctx…qvAJR34.47%derived5%3—delinquent
734RLMS1pv3YK…QpqZJo4.47%derived5%1—delinquent
735BZBKHmW1Dh…c6nGLb4.47%derived5%1—delinquent
7368Mp6Yx7h2p…pSQh3R4.47%derived5%1—delinquent
737BpdmpWst6J…St8vFH4.47%derived5%0—Insufficient data
7389fa5wcqnAQ…7jGJfZ4.42%derived6%11K—Insufficient data
739NWY18yrPHs…qSchkH4.24%derived10%10K—delinquent
740FsEq1UFSuc…z9qY2W4.24%derived10%0—Insufficient data
7416mygxmZxmT…c4gyDS—100%2—delinquent
7426adw3JVBUH…kvoz2s—100%2—delinquent
7437Dvp5zCFtV…zUDjTq—100%1—Insufficient data
7444kdjgZKJUw…CNEAc6—100%1—Insufficient data
745C6yZKSQpce…KYRgi4—100%1—delinquent
746CZMekcZwyK…mtinPf—100%1—delinquent
7473BoZ4AF2t7…7U6fjV—100%1—Insufficient data
748CQYPRQ4vqn…L6nMUD—100%1—delinquent
749JDY2ADULVm…3qp8zo—100%1—delinquent
750BAqygpJA82…viJjn9—100%1—delinquent
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