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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

101–150 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
101mds2fZEpJP…YCwjrq4.24%10%58K58.8Degraded
102mds1WWedpe…wjP5KC4.24%10%58K58.8Degraded
103scs1NCSTaf…Ekf25i4.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
104sce2zXNjLp…g2H37U4.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
105scs2Ra91pM…pVMJko4.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
106scb1Z7du8N…L739Y14.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
1076WgdYhhGE5…mBtAHN4.24%10%2.31M59.0Degraded
108HTeRsa3gm3…u2u3Jo4.24%10%1.78M59.1Degraded
10984gC25fbFK…eqGpoW4.24%10%518K59.6Degraded
110HH5dA42XF1…M4hWFi4.25%10%849K60.1Degraded
111R2D2imoV8n…WbFruq4.25%5%190K60.5Degraded
112krakeNd6ed…2mhXV14.28%10%3.35M60.9Degraded
113CLsFr1KZVb…jBMaoE4.28%5%190K62.9Degraded
1145marvipGzf…D3V4ou4.28%5%211K63.1Degraded
1159rkJMARqK6…gFNDSQ4.33%8%4.71M64.0Degraded
1165zuNci3TV7…aT24AK4.29%5%193K64.0Degraded
117Fd7btgySsr…2v69Nk4.40%7%17.82M64.4Degraded
118DP9iBgK9c7…zQnjmg4.31%5%142K65.1Degraded
1193YX7PQuESm…1Kg9DS4.31%2%103K65.2Degraded
120zeroT6PTAE…DcuidX4.32%5%227K65.8Degraded
121C8Bey3LKVJ…99JP1k4.38%7%9.26M65.9Degraded
122LeDbQ99QT3…dAuE3V4.32%7%580K66.0Degraded
123BkoS26vBua…8KsLHd4.33%8%1.54M66.8Degraded
124CW9C7HBwAM…Vacd1A4.33%8%1.59M66.8Degraded
125XkCriyrNwS…VqeKAr4.33%8%690K67.0Degraded
126AHNX2YiD8S…JMVedb4.33%8%232K67.0Degraded
127HnwMGBAw5P…dnJmeq4.33%5%159K67.0Degraded
1289W3QTgBhkU…JmWws74.33%derived8%1.49M67.1Degraded
1297RtC1QgiNV…GuJ6Gr4.33%derived8%282K67.1Degraded
130HE2REn7YRh…Hd819r4.33%derived8%121K67.1Degraded
1316aDs9tUm2g…aWQYd44.33%8%1.46M67.1Degraded
1327Zm1pE4Fub…gEAZ844.33%8%202K67.1Degraded
133EfPYQ4BUMi…gWHuyp4.33%8%325K67.1Degraded
134UPSCQNqdbi…o7GubF4.33%8%265K67.1Degraded
135BeaCHioStq…eEiTPb4.33%8%632K67.3Degraded
136EvnRmnMrd6…JXqDo44.40%7%7.51M67.9Degraded
137BRAZAtTTzR…n4A6GT4.35%5%131K68.4Degraded
138BSGMRbK97D…RBTZxU4.37%5%161K70.5Degraded
1392N7v8pDKDY…PWTf6Z4.37%5%197K70.5Degraded
140ACvL73V4GN…vh2Xmi4.37%7%679K70.6Degraded
141GiYSnFRrXr…X2WpDe4.38%5%222K71.0Degraded
1424MKi9PLRv4…PBdNSR4.38%7%61K71.1Degraded
1435HYjArGt81…vT9Mp44.38%5%186K71.1Degraded
14432ke3uf1qL…ien3zm4.38%derived7%429K71.2Degraded
145HPJ2KUVgRn…jLZU1N4.38%derived7%2K71.2Degraded
146DeXsDvvZzK…jzZB8t4.38%5%204K71.3Degraded
147Hj2jzpAp57…Yzwxet4.38%5%197K71.4Degraded
1488T8AJfUCXw…yhLhFJ4.38%5%176K71.4Degraded
1495pZvwjSpGY…M3YcNT4.38%5%209K71.8Degraded
1508Nvaxzif1N…DkgaNy4.39%5%170K72.4Degraded
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