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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

401–450 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
401sfvTq7ojrE…SdRDAB4.56%derived5%90K87.6Good
4025MAGJ3zSht…7KpjcB4.56%3%277K87.7Good
4035429ouKuzS…scqXoB4.56%3%10K87.7Good
404GGX3BEoZDq…mVuZNS4.57%3%155K87.8Good
405VQwCCSfW3o…Bvv2YH4.57%3%576K87.8Good
406D3htsc6iRQ…aNcTQz4.57%5%78K88.0Good
4075RvfTSowms…mBAwCs4.57%3%774K88.3Good
4089UM8wQ8F5o…isJd9i4.61%2%3.75M89.6Good
4097CR6whiYUL…BQKiVe4.59%3%96K89.9Good
410HEL1USMZKA…v1e2TU4.71%derived0%15.94M91.8Excellent
411Ex1AxFCipX…HiXAaT4.61%2%893K91.8Excellent
412CRNyGD7xNP…nmTi8r4.61%2%20K91.8Excellent
413BXAxLMMMUN…ghmRtH4.61%2%794K91.8Excellent
414DRpbCBMxVn…km21hy4.71%derived0%12.32M92.9Excellent
4154QNekaDqrL…unx9su4.63%2%184K93.1Excellent
416E1r4Psq84t…5RdxHL4.71%derived0%11.22M93.2Excellent
417LodeuWMHPi…GJ9TSS4.64%1%104K93.9Excellent
418DidkDYa64D…QGihi54.64%5%366K94.1Excellent
4198pyp3vfVPR…DcRV3w4.65%1%218K94.7Excellent
420FBbqKvwLfK…BkSe894.65%1%1.91M95.0Excellent
421Awes4Tr6TX…yGvpLM4.70%derived0%6.41M95.2Excellent
422JD549HsbJH…UrHybB4.71%derived0%6.69M95.4Excellent
423DNVZMSqeRH…23eWkf4.66%1%1.92M95.9Excellent
424BGAjnivVWq…ui3SEk4.66%derived1%196K95.9Excellent
425G9vCpJUUSp…zCGvzM4.66%1%532K95.9Excellent
426AMukCLCr52…aR6DJF4.66%1%1.43M96.2Excellent
4277y5VhV4fkz…NWkWRL4.67%derived0%1.36M96.3Excellent
4283tm92VTxwy…uUACCk4.66%5%91K96.3Excellent
429hy1oMaD3Vi…zYXnwu4.67%derived0%586K96.4Excellent
430J6etcxDdYj…FPJEbK4.71%derived0%3.90M97.7Excellent
431shftkxnsXm…HfVikj4.71%derived0%3.65M98.0Excellent
4325tfcGyf3NQ…aC3Zwm4.68%1%310K98.0Excellent
433DrifTrN923…mZxatz4.71%derived0%2.81M99.1Excellent
434ana2y2YvQ3…q9xcfY4.71%derived0%2.49M99.6Excellent
4357qGNnXKW1e…tRyMQc4.71%derived0%2.24M100.0Excellent
436CoG8d9Fp2T…svRgmJ4.71%derived0%2.19M100.0Excellent
437CMPSSdrTnR…5z6gbd4.71%derived0%1.41M100.0Excellent
438CfgRXmp1LE…RxVSoW4.71%derived0%1.39M100.0Excellent
439Ninja1spj6…firmjs4.71%derived0%1.38M100.0Excellent
4406TkKqq15wX…Yme1ea4.71%derived0%1.33M100.0Excellent
441HLnodbYkL5…2L6St94.71%derived0%1.24M100.0Excellent
442DcTPJqPNrT…Ev7KPZ4.71%derived0%1.23M100.0Excellent
443FWwwP9tNtt…MiLFTH4.71%derived0%1.15M100.0Excellent
44458KprHKFNH…WjtESn4.71%derived0%1.10M100.0Excellent
445CwyVpfmfSi…zcBuD24.71%derived0%1.06M100.0Excellent
4462DTXh3ruMU…Qfda3V4.71%derived0%1.01M100.0Excellent
447PUmpKiNnSV…o54xjb4.71%derived0%1.00M100.0Excellent
4488uJiHDJ1b7…y9nxvM4.71%derived0%1,000K100.0Excellent
449C1ocKDYMCm…ysyzcA4.71%derived0%990K100.0Excellent
450G2TBEh2ahN…8b6KfH4.71%derived0%909K100.0Excellent
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