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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

1–50 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
1 (1st)11AMA4mnNb…vnbcjk4.46%5%203K78.1Good
2 (2nd)1ggyZGbYtE…pnszLT4.49%5%180K80.7Good
3 (3rd)1i1yPyh843…2KAs2i4.50%5%98K82.1Good
41KXvrkPXwk…K9bsK34.46%5%186K78.5Good
51Link6hB1N…U8PRDG4.71%derived5%81K100.0Excellent
622rU5yUmdV…v4bJDU0.00%100%2.32M0.0Poor
723SUe5fzmL…M4b9Er4.47%5%675K79.6Good
82abwQG3v2x…jyLeaK4.71%derived0%12K100.0Excellent
92AKKnirWVZ…tPWpbc4.47%derived5%122K79.4Good
102bpfa8JbFf…PgXd2d4.47%derived8%30K79.4Good
112Df1aLCRYi…GJfR9E4.23%10%542K58.8Degraded
122dfgsiSaZ5…Qb8YEC4.47%5%292K79.7Good
132DTXh3ruMU…Qfda3V4.71%derived0%1.01M100.0Excellent
142dxz129YxB…ueWZV70.00%100%83K0.0Poor
152Eq6YD8P8Q…CoPmQU4.47%5%112K79.4Good
162gDeeRa3mw…r8uibX4.71%derived0%246K100.0Excellent
172Gfd4mkMqD…zdaRwe4.71%derived0%208K100.0Excellent
182GUnfxZavK…CS1rSx—100%2.50M0.0Poor
192icWF7Tvxy…qUij1B4.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
202jS8AX38m8…SJcWwo4.71%derived0%47K100.0Excellent
212Le6TjeEes…BCHUr54.71%derived0%20K100.0Excellent
222m1A2WM1vt…UjoAAb0.00%100%2.01M0.0Poor
232mDrrmhSzp…iJDby24.71%derived0%274K100.0Excellent
242mMGsb5uy1…PaVHHd4.00%5%528K58.8Degraded
252Mob8FJkb8…bASitD4.47%5%352K79.4Good
262N7v8pDKDY…PWTf6Z4.37%5%197K70.5Degraded
272nhGaJvR17…gRdQot4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
282oHUYyW2PU…kxW4ns0.00%100%286K0.0Poor
292ooJ5UKSrp…SozdKy4.71%derived0%412—Insufficient data
302P9ZYA4vBo…gk6jRL4.71%derived0%135K100.0Excellent
312t53LvZfsk…BaEBhM4.47%5%140K79.5Good
322T9NfUEDBc…XMnvzR4.71%derived0%184K—Insufficient data
332UBhtRuyr9…KiRa9H4.71%derived5%112K100.0Excellent
342uxEHizFmm…xjt87m4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
352VKu11f8zc…6YvYMd4.46%5%113K78.5Good
362Wf9V9rPeV…2DuMDc4.71%derived0%627K100.0Excellent
372X5yarNUWG…2J1to14.53%4%520K84.9Good
382X7WoaXX9K…jWRthz4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
392XmhZKHmfj…9mo82C4.47%derived5%98K79.4Good
402zykwzzo1p…TVd5Tq4.71%derived0%109K100.0Excellent
4132ke3uf1qL…ien3zm4.38%derived7%429K71.2Degraded
4238zm5bBgDa…juTq8W4.71%derived0%121K100.0Excellent
433B2mGaZoFw…1XWynU4.53%2%190K84.7Good
443BeharBd3j…dXYSNw4.52%derived5%107K83.5Good
453BoZ4AF2t7…7U6fjV—100%1—Insufficient data
463CKKAoVi94…kSUofX4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
473cZSHGfNda…NR5pgA4.47%5%636K79.0Good
483DaifGfDES…uggHVe4.71%derived0%34K100.0Excellent
493DaPk6TdeG…gYK8BV4.71%derived0%97K100.0Excellent
503iQqh65Gby…y1c9dF4.47%derived5%213—Insufficient data
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