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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

251–300 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
2515MAGJ3zSht…7KpjcB4.56%3%277K87.7Good
2523ytgyJXpm3…z79gpJ4.56%derived3%1.01M87.6Good
253sfvTq7ojrE…SdRDAB4.56%derived5%90K87.6Good
254meshRrDTME…sw3o6Y4.56%5%110K87.6Good
255DP9SwUE9Wi…pt8GgZ4.56%3%267K87.6Good
2565zm9g3zgAP…LFwCKK4.56%5%160K86.9Good
257pSoLoZx55z…jbYgT24.54%4%2K85.3Good
2582X5yarNUWG…2J1to14.53%4%520K84.9Good
2593B2mGaZoFw…1XWynU4.53%2%190K84.7Good
2607GkMBmtrTZ…mJD4We4.53%4%421K84.7Good
261Ey3DkEVbfB…jjkykf4.53%4%145K84.2Good
2623tzpLMWRkW…uo4gTk4.52%4%193K84.1Good
263FjYEr2UCeF…c7SLQL4.52%5%131K84.1Good
2646xWLi1TDSh…wgunS84.52%5%1.18M83.6Good
265AqyRvpjjSN…HcJ2o74.52%4%524K83.5Good
266AG1PsJMQcu…znYFKW4.52%4%84K83.5Good
267NLMSHTjmSi…Nmw5kH4.52%derived5%135K83.5Good
2683BeharBd3j…dXYSNw4.52%derived5%107K83.5Good
269A4hyMd3Fyv…AJ1to24.52%4%384K83.5Good
270huinBRP3mu…kQz5534.51%4%115K83.2Good
271ChorusmmK7…1EH15n4.51%8%1.62M82.9Good
272rapXHroUoG…YarvSC4.51%5%102K82.8Good
273MCFmmmXdzT…sCU5kx4.51%4%190K82.8Good
274simpRo1FrQ…hjXYJb4.51%5%180K82.8Good
275FACb6bbTDR…YAMv2o4.51%4%291K82.4Good
276Lua1fxRRHC…uF2WSb4.50%5%103K82.2Good
277SANDCxXBbQ…aS4mXU4.50%5%59K82.2Good
2781i1yPyh843…2KAs2i4.50%5%98K82.1Good
2798hAYbagNt7…ybjJsN4.50%5%188K82.0Good
280mint13XHZS…xeLB8f4.50%5%340K81.9Good
2813V2xaccDpF…3w1Bg74.50%4%145K81.9Good
282BR1aTt4ZZU…eSwUB84.50%5%94K81.8Good
283b1ueZK9bWT…XnkiqF4.50%5%107K81.6Good
28461QB1Evn9E…JJfEQk4.50%5%256K81.6Good
2858BwBBt23a6…2DxGvR4.49%3%245K81.3Good
286BPKAfGkkzF…EMNMCT4.49%5%168K81.1Good
2876qwYjs5vCS…1EHKsw4.49%5%142K81.0Good
288777idJ8gG2…aU8nN24.49%5%84K80.8Good
289bookoVmqw4…M7A5Lo4.49%5%138K80.8Good
2901ggyZGbYtE…pnszLT4.49%5%180K80.7Good
2919pBHfuE19q…du7Nx24.48%5%189K80.6Good
29274MzXStH8p…Sn37nE4.48%5%349K80.6Good
293EydLxzdWfD…CRUkJ44.48%5%136K80.6Good
294chopskqnud…ucAwfb4.48%5%119K80.6Good
295CpNnGGhgVA…7YgavX4.48%5%137K80.5Good
296E3mDbFMr8y…c54h3F4.48%5%870K80.5Good
297icex1C6pnZ…7XXrXE4.48%5%251K80.5Good
298BNtHBLo1L2…jtubrg4.48%5%206K80.4Good
299LA1NEzryoi…RpM3wc4.48%5%402K80.1Good
300Tri1F8B6Yt…TT7ZG34.48%5%254K80.0Good
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