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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
451BbCQMWnfxo…1ivCi44.71%derived0%157K—Insufficient data
452bay3wXfJsu…WM5G1z4.71%derived5%113K100.0Excellent
453BAqygpJA82…viJjn9—100%1—delinquent
454BaDhUB1eWf…NGZUPy0.00%100%75K0.0Poor
455B94PGWcxE9…pQxh6S4.71%derived0%52K100.0Excellent
456b1ueZK9bWT…XnkiqF4.50%5%107K81.6Good
457AYY1TCe347…ZiRoew4.71%derived0%11K—delinquent
458axy3tCRL3w…9ADnJ44.46%5%137K78.2Good
459AWZhUiQjrj…i411hN4.71%derived0%99K100.0Excellent
460Awes4Tr6TX…yGvpLM4.70%derived0%6.41M95.3Excellent
461AwcMVMvmT1…s6dM4o4.52%4%199K82.1Good
462AWcCdYG7Dy…3QrVRV0.00%100%2.01M0.0Poor
463Aw5wEMXhby…WPk1ex—100%2.50M0.0Poor
464avnujiRNoS…v6REZo4.44%5%142K77.1Good
465Av8EnYrPBn…yLnBfe4.71%derived0%129K100.0Excellent
466AurseT3W3t…74teU34.71%derived0%365K100.0Excellent
467Atom7LRkdX…WE8Z3S0.95%80%24K58.8Degraded
468AsMpvJ3DZ2…tE1bWr4.71%derived0%215K100.0Excellent
469As9NxA9bCf…3tN6am4.71%derived100%47—delinquent
470AS4i8EXUZn…43Ds5z—0%10K0.0Poor
471ArMBx6veRq…SMfXiM4.47%derived5%78K79.4Good
472ARKk6RgiFq…wvmfju4.24%10%64—delinquent
473ark1hdnnfm…DAdABZ0.00%100%42K0.0Poor
474AqyRvpjjSN…HcJ2o74.52%4%524K83.5Good
475AQDCuNe1ao…f9dTNM4.71%derived0%218K—Insufficient data
476ApVnoa3r3o…41VSu63.76%derived20%10K—delinquent
477anza1rXDVh…ibSAJd4.71%derived0%553K100.0Excellent
478ANC1u9sY36…SPzKsk4.47%5%681K79.1Good
479ana2y2YvQ3…q9xcfY4.71%derived0%2.49M99.6Excellent
480AMukCLCr52…aR6DJF4.66%1%1.43M96.2Excellent
481AmjX7CerZb…yD7TSD4.46%5%195K78.3Good
482AmhQFcGvH2…UwBGrG4.45%5%185K78.0Good
483ALPHA6rdHZ…tZ1T7R4.71%derived0%265K100.0Excellent
484ALp2GdA1eJ…gjDs8R4.47%derived0%392K79.4Good
485AiDoLWFKzN…ANVPEq4.71%derived0%897K100.0Excellent
486AicQr2zCWB…pbXEQA0.00%100%742K0.0Poor
487AiBEt9kE8y…3zrLfu4.71%derived0%148K100.0Excellent
488AHZxzLeRGR…bfEmYR—100%300K0.0Poor
489AHNX2YiD8S…JMVedb4.33%8%232K67.0Degraded
490AH6jC785Xt…JAveyc4.71%derived0%519K—Insufficient data
491AG1PsJMQcu…znYFKW4.52%4%84K83.5Good
492AfZTWYoFQb…ryxtKc4.44%5%300K77.0Good
493AEHqTB2RtJ…6kqTBD—100%2.08M0.0Poor
494AEAJtnjjB1…3tGXbP—100%1—delinquent
495AdSHK6vpQn…pAxL1y4.47%5%35K79.4Good
496adre1Xia7e…2agAKZ4.46%5%104K78.5Good
497adramSYKBv…4fpfi74.46%5%265K78.8Good
498ADjyeNzWd8…QcXjop4.71%derived0%100K100.0Excellent
499ACvL73V4GN…vh2Xmi4.37%7%679K70.6Degraded
500AccReGBNBd…yqQuWm4.30%3%5K—delinquent
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