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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

501–550 of 753 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
501Fudp7uPDYN…i3PBzS4.46%5%204K78.1Good
502capyS1jerx…RGLsQf4.46%5%164K78.1Good
50311AMA4mnNb…vnbcjk4.46%5%203K78.1Good
504yJeahQNRHN…uYVwxt4.45%5%162K78.0Good
505AmhQFcGvH2…UwBGrG4.45%5%185K78.0Good
5065AsoSeQtLo…CP1k3H4.45%5%179K78.0Good
507FoXyHJXdQG…PS9eAk4.45%5%82K78.0Good
508MFLKSo4XDf…bCHTR44.45%5%79K78.0Good
509bxrAptB5Zp…23Rrq64.45%5%82K77.9Good
5105pPRHniefF…GwHzSm4.50%5%5.95M77.9Good
51191oPXTs2oq…SctwMt4.45%5%206K77.9Good
51297jbhVBYcS…B6eeMt4.45%5%200K77.8Good
513HrpWeJSYnQ…oGDBs64.45%5%198K77.8Good
514mALL2W6DUg…tEoG3y4.45%5%98K77.8Good
5158uPW9msN75…Zr3jCo4.45%5%164K77.8Good
51674Xkp2iLXm…PRSgN54.45%5%170K77.8Good
5174Kbcyn7JVP…sUC6jP4.45%5%150K77.7Good
518ReFiqMfGnc…F2QnfR4.45%5%143K77.5Good
519Stakex4B2t…zPitLh4.45%5%197K77.3Good
520avnujiRNoS…v6REZo4.44%5%142K77.1Good
521AfZTWYoFQb…ryxtKc4.44%5%300K77.0Good
522jagBNeXYnc…SJZ6vT4.44%5%154K76.8Good
523sTepQGoReJ…okLyuM4.44%5%203K76.7Good
524EBk678aQvc…c89RSV4.44%5%78K76.5Good
52543Am3PKFeo…qZXEW24.44%5%260K76.5Good
526gotasRuLTu…kgCwCX4.44%5%87K76.4Good
527PKdLMugp1M…o6eJoQ4.43%5%167K76.2Good
528jntr1vkzvS…P5uDQA4.43%5%96K75.8Good
529722RdWmHC5…z6Xzbp4.43%6%1.66M75.6Good
5307cVfgArChe…5xkxXy4.43%6%1.24M75.5Good
531DnQBmTJyLb…VRGnG44.42%5%227K75.3Good
532spur5CDwBv…q7zgvD4.42%derived1%106K75.3Good
533RBFiUqjYuy…vDAsFM4.42%6%308K75.3Good
534DDnAqxJVFo…Hoshdp4.42%2%175K75.1Good
535c3rtoMCHSb…JwkHwx4.42%5%127K75.0Good
536JUPiTERrZq…LT1h4b4.49%5%11.08M74.8Degraded
5379eGrDohdNT…xe8FoY4.47%5%6.81M74.7Degraded
538vALigXFg9w…doniBY4.41%4%245K74.5Degraded
539FNKgX9dYUh…zfqB8a4.42%8%3.54M73.2Degraded
5409hQqNe3DQT…NRwnTf4.39%7%119K72.8Degraded
541LFGGGJtnBL…hDABBC4.39%5%87K72.7Degraded
5428Nvaxzif1N…DkgaNy4.39%5%170K72.4Degraded
5435pZvwjSpGY…M3YcNT4.38%5%209K71.8Degraded
5448T8AJfUCXw…yhLhFJ4.38%5%176K71.4Degraded
545Hj2jzpAp57…Yzwxet4.38%5%197K71.4Degraded
546DeXsDvvZzK…jzZB8t4.38%5%204K71.3Degraded
54732ke3uf1qL…ien3zm4.38%derived7%429K71.2Degraded
548HPJ2KUVgRn…jLZU1N4.38%derived7%2K71.2Degraded
5495HYjArGt81…vT9Mp44.38%5%186K71.1Degraded
5504MKi9PLRv4…PBdNSR4.38%7%61K71.1Degraded
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