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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

0.06%

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

753 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 753 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

451–500 of 753 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
4513x9nibnhgB…KW27KJ4.46%5%118K78.6Good
452PRGNnb8DxV…V1BGKN4.46%5%259K78.6Good
453EAW9vxqogv…854VTc4.46%5%120K78.6Good
454vnd1Ps8w3f…xvbysd4.46%5%103K78.6Good
4556NDen7aDi6…W4Q5Pg4.46%5%126K78.6Good
4569Wmaz9VPpE…ac5wkf4.46%5%33K78.5Good
457idCE5k2BtT…QP7LY74.46%5%210K78.5Good
458SA1LFXr4os…4SmRcr4.46%5%71K78.5Good
459E9hD3ikumJ…E5uhmo4.46%5%125K78.5Good
460nateKhsYkr…fNkxdC4.46%5%105K78.5Good
461radM7PKUpZ…KkftP94.46%5%257K78.5Good
462adre1Xia7e…2agAKZ4.46%5%104K78.5Good
4632VKu11f8zc…6YvYMd4.46%5%113K78.5Good
464PuRposE4ut…EUram44.46%5%307K78.5Good
465te1ee9rGf3…UF8rNY4.46%5%100K78.5Good
4661KXvrkPXwk…K9bsK34.46%5%186K78.5Good
467dmMwc4RazL…aiun8S4.46%5%115K78.5Good
468chrtyETASK…NVqnJL4.46%5%117K78.5Good
469DCKyEmMENQ…SDCzKA4.46%5%96K78.4Good
470h3ZXAE168m…Kb1Nch4.46%5%141K78.4Good
47173hojLdq1v…Sdv6BZ4.46%5%200K78.4Good
472hxMhrsuGPD…gHwePj4.46%5%119K78.4Good
473novaeuhY2J…CtARZn4.46%5%174K78.4Good
474NATsUSZGoh…eqKbRk4.46%5%113K78.4Good
475BTGPbq4KuF…sZnMLb4.46%5%220K78.4Good
4764DraK9wUrM…we6e514.46%5%221K78.4Good
4775XKJwdKB2H…AMPtoQ4.46%5%176K78.4Good
478sTEAKPk59E…gUfbiW4.46%5%221K78.3Good
479YE11a5nVJt…hAAUEV4.46%5%112K78.3Good
480D8xKNftHzF…57KK4e4.46%5%96K78.3Good
481forb5u56Xg…qL6P7q4.46%5%90K78.3Good
482GWJyUxzcVw…nuLmz54.46%5%186K78.3Good
483AmjX7CerZb…yD7TSD4.46%5%195K78.3Good
484fdzip81euD…RBfBYG4.46%5%192K78.3Good
485SLNDCSGTEs…tRpdU24.46%5%252K78.2Good
486axy3tCRL3w…9ADnJ44.46%5%137K78.2Good
487GBQ2GvTzmj…YXAAAA4.47%5%3.00M78.2Good
488ABC1U4cf9D…EJthwY4.46%5%243K78.2Good
489LunaowJnt8…rqc57c4.46%5%162K78.2Good
490mastWEbKEM…rgzn1g4.46%5%102K78.2Good
491dxa6QFqLcB…2h8inH4.46%5%190K78.2Good
492mD1afZhSis…EfFX1e4.46%5%248K78.2Good
493eyeYaqg9e2…8TXNoK4.46%5%111K78.2Good
494BitokuDHQi…axM3Kh4.46%5%187K78.2Good
495UNrgBLmc8J…PQfqEL4.46%5%255K78.1Good
496FCWkGAHDWK…ezUnpr4.46%5%187K78.1Good
4979ppJrpsbbu…cDab4f4.46%5%188K78.1Good
4984vcmYPfLzt…v97LGJ4.46%5%196K78.1Good
499Fudp7uPDYN…i3PBzS4.46%5%204K78.1Good
500capyS1jerx…RGLsQf4.46%5%164K78.1Good
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