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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

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

501–550 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
5019Wmaz9VPpE…ac5wkf4.46%5%33K78.5Good
502idCE5k2BtT…QP7LY74.46%5%210K78.5Good
503SA1LFXr4os…4SmRcr4.46%5%71K78.5Good
504E9hD3ikumJ…E5uhmo4.46%5%125K78.5Good
505nateKhsYkr…fNkxdC4.46%5%105K78.5Good
506radM7PKUpZ…KkftP94.46%5%257K78.5Good
507adre1Xia7e…2agAKZ4.46%5%104K78.5Good
5082VKu11f8zc…6YvYMd4.46%5%113K78.5Good
509PuRposE4ut…EUram44.46%5%307K78.5Good
510te1ee9rGf3…UF8rNY4.46%5%100K78.5Good
5111KXvrkPXwk…K9bsK34.46%5%186K78.5Good
512dmMwc4RazL…aiun8S4.46%5%115K78.5Good
513chrtyETASK…NVqnJL4.46%5%117K78.5Good
514DCKyEmMENQ…SDCzKA4.46%5%96K78.4Good
515h3ZXAE168m…Kb1Nch4.46%5%141K78.4Good
51673hojLdq1v…Sdv6BZ4.46%5%200K78.4Good
517hxMhrsuGPD…gHwePj4.46%5%119K78.4Good
518novaeuhY2J…CtARZn4.46%5%174K78.4Good
519NATsUSZGoh…eqKbRk4.46%5%113K78.4Good
520BTGPbq4KuF…sZnMLb4.46%5%220K78.4Good
5214DraK9wUrM…we6e514.46%5%221K78.4Good
5225XKJwdKB2H…AMPtoQ4.46%5%176K78.4Good
523sTEAKPk59E…gUfbiW4.46%5%221K78.3Good
524YE11a5nVJt…hAAUEV4.46%5%112K78.3Good
525D8xKNftHzF…57KK4e4.46%5%96K78.3Good
526forb5u56Xg…qL6P7q4.46%5%90K78.3Good
527GWJyUxzcVw…nuLmz54.46%5%186K78.3Good
528AmjX7CerZb…yD7TSD4.46%5%195K78.3Good
529ABREU5YkQc…umiPdV4.46%5%78K78.3Good
530fdzip81euD…RBfBYG4.46%5%192K78.3Good
531SLNDCSGTEs…tRpdU24.46%5%252K78.2Good
532axy3tCRL3w…9ADnJ44.46%5%137K78.2Good
533ABC1U4cf9D…EJthwY4.46%5%243K78.2Good
534LunaowJnt8…rqc57c4.46%5%162K78.2Good
535mastWEbKEM…rgzn1g4.46%5%102K78.2Good
536dxa6QFqLcB…2h8inH4.46%5%190K78.2Good
537mD1afZhSis…EfFX1e4.46%5%248K78.2Good
538eyeYaqg9e2…8TXNoK4.46%5%111K78.2Good
539BitokuDHQi…axM3Kh4.46%5%187K78.2Good
540UNrgBLmc8J…PQfqEL4.46%5%255K78.1Good
541FCWkGAHDWK…ezUnpr4.46%5%187K78.1Good
5429ppJrpsbbu…cDab4f4.46%5%188K78.1Good
543xLabscif2D…mZ1ARE4.46%5%3K—delinquent
5444vcmYPfLzt…v97LGJ4.46%5%196K78.1Good
545Fudp7uPDYN…i3PBzS4.46%5%204K78.1Good
546capyS1jerx…RGLsQf4.46%5%164K78.1Good
54711AMA4mnNb…vnbcjk4.46%5%203K78.1Good
548yJeahQNRHN…uYVwxt4.45%5%162K78.0Good
549AmhQFcGvH2…UwBGrG4.45%5%185K78.0Good
5505AsoSeQtLo…CP1k3H4.45%5%179K78.0Good
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