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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

501–550 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
501JUPiTERrZq…LT1h4b4.49%5%11.08M74.8Degraded
5029eGrDohdNT…xe8FoY4.47%5%6.81M74.7Degraded
503vALigXFg9w…doniBY4.41%4%245K74.5Degraded
504RAuSNo4DRj…cPHK1D4.45%5%158K74.1Degraded
505FNKgX9dYUh…zfqB8a4.42%8%3.54M73.2Degraded
5069hQqNe3DQT…NRwnTf4.39%7%119K72.8Degraded
507LFGGGJtnBL…hDABBC4.39%5%87K72.7Degraded
5088Nvaxzif1N…DkgaNy4.39%5%170K72.4Degraded
5095pZvwjSpGY…M3YcNT4.38%5%209K71.8Degraded
5108T8AJfUCXw…yhLhFJ4.38%5%176K71.4Degraded
511Hj2jzpAp57…Yzwxet4.38%5%197K71.4Degraded
512DeXsDvvZzK…jzZB8t4.38%5%204K71.3Degraded
51332ke3uf1qL…ien3zm4.38%derived7%429K71.2Degraded
514HPJ2KUVgRn…jLZU1N4.38%derived7%2K71.2Degraded
5155HYjArGt81…vT9Mp44.38%5%186K71.1Degraded
5164MKi9PLRv4…PBdNSR4.38%7%61K71.1Degraded
517GiYSnFRrXr…X2WpDe4.38%5%222K71.1Degraded
518ACvL73V4GN…vh2Xmi4.37%7%679K70.6Degraded
5192N7v8pDKDY…PWTf6Z4.37%5%197K70.6Degraded
520BSGMRbK97D…RBTZxU4.37%5%161K70.5Degraded
521BRAZAtTTzR…n4A6GT4.35%5%131K68.4Degraded
522EvnRmnMrd6…JXqDo44.40%7%7.51M67.9Degraded
523BeaCHioStq…eEiTPb4.33%8%632K67.3Degraded
524UPSCQNqdbi…o7GubF4.33%8%265K67.1Degraded
525EfPYQ4BUMi…gWHuyp4.33%8%325K67.1Degraded
5267Zm1pE4Fub…gEAZ844.33%8%202K67.1Degraded
5276aDs9tUm2g…aWQYd44.33%8%1.46M67.1Degraded
5289W3QTgBhkU…JmWws74.33%derived8%1.49M67.1Degraded
529HE2REn7YRh…Hd819r4.33%derived8%121K67.1Degraded
530HnwMGBAw5P…dnJmeq4.33%5%159K67.0Degraded
531AHNX2YiD8S…JMVedb4.33%8%232K67.0Degraded
532XkCriyrNwS…VqeKAr4.33%8%690K67.0Degraded
533CW9C7HBwAM…Vacd1A4.33%8%1.59M66.9Degraded
534BkoS26vBua…8KsLHd4.33%8%1.54M66.8Degraded
535LeDbQ99QT3…dAuE3V4.32%7%580K66.0Degraded
536C8Bey3LKVJ…99JP1k4.38%7%9.26M65.9Degraded
537zeroT6PTAE…DcuidX4.32%5%227K65.8Degraded
5383YX7PQuESm…1Kg9DS4.31%2%103K65.2Degraded
539DP9iBgK9c7…zQnjmg4.31%5%142K65.1Degraded
540Fd7btgySsr…2v69Nk4.40%7%17.82M64.4Degraded
5415zuNci3TV7…aT24AK4.29%5%193K64.0Degraded
5429rkJMARqK6…gFNDSQ4.33%8%4.71M64.0Degraded
5435marvipGzf…D3V4ou4.28%5%211K63.2Degraded
544CLsFr1KZVb…jBMaoE4.28%5%190K62.9Degraded
545krakeNd6ed…2mhXV14.28%10%3.35M60.9Degraded
546R2D2imoV8n…WbFruq4.25%5%190K60.5Degraded
547HH5dA42XF1…M4hWFi4.25%10%849K60.1Degraded
54884gC25fbFK…eqGpoW4.24%10%518K59.7Degraded
549HTeRsa3gm3…u2u3Jo4.24%10%1.78M59.1Degraded
5506WgdYhhGE5…mBtAHN4.24%10%2.31M59.0Degraded
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