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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
501AbvfvRfKHD…xQxg1x4.15%10%167K58.8Degraded
502ABREU5YkQc…umiPdV4.46%5%78K78.3Good
503ABC1U4cf9D…EJthwY4.46%5%243K78.2Good
504A9mvukTd77…tA8FAC4.47%5%1.38M79.7Good
505A4hyMd3Fyv…AJ1to24.52%4%384K83.5Good
506A23LfQn6kh…YQgiX24.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
507A1vqhA2fS6…tHANy40.00%100%3.93M0.0Poor
5089XhmwxwWto…Zb7ct74.71%derived0%152K—Insufficient data
5099xcXe4WRAf…7PeczT4.71%derived0%363K100.0Excellent
5109WzPWqKSqb…Wp28KR4.71%derived0%352K100.0Excellent
5119Wmaz9VPpE…ac5wkf4.46%5%33K78.5Good
5129W3QTgBhkU…JmWws74.33%derived8%1.49M67.1Degraded
5139UM8wQ8F5o…isJd9i4.61%2%3.75M89.6Good
5149ueKvL3WiL…ibx1Zq4.71%derived0%90K100.0Excellent
5159U4WqNGVyw…ysaJmg0.00%100%58K0.0Poor
5169rkJMARqK6…gFNDSQ4.33%8%4.71M64.0Degraded
5179q16BB7WGm…juM4k74.71%derived0%124K100.0Excellent
5189PRr9k87Hj…BWXKdQ4.71%derived0%131K100.0Excellent
5199ppJrpsbbu…cDab4f4.46%5%188K78.1Good
5209pBHfuE19q…du7Nx24.48%5%189K80.6Good
5219jxgosAfHg…eynGFP—100%4.61M0.0Poor
5229iFPQbP1jG…ZSnz8R4.47%5%395K79.4Good
5239hQqNe3DQT…NRwnTf4.39%7%119K72.8Degraded
5249gMjDS6WPa…pQ38t6—100%0—Insufficient data
5259GHvMeJ4ZW…y4MZJQ4.71%derived0%234K—Insufficient data
5269gFxqsXbFy…QoXrUJ4.71%derived0%299K100.0Excellent
5279FXD1NXrK6…uDfm2e4.71%derived0%197K100.0Excellent
5289fTWmMqVz5…SdX1PS4.71%derived0%24—delinquent
5299fa5wcqnAQ…7jGJfZ4.42%derived6%11K—Insufficient data
5309eGrDohdNT…xe8FoY4.47%5%6.81M74.7Degraded
5319dH6wfdJVg…BYXANK4.71%derived0%107K100.0Excellent
5329D3o3EYekn…gPZJDA4.47%5%37K79.4Good
5339bkyxgYxRr…dH2Uvr4.71%derived0%61K100.0Excellent
5349AW87WqARQ…NUXDPD4.71%derived0%302K100.0Excellent
53599rG5AhkVa…X3cwaJ4.47%derived8%147K79.4Good
53697jbhVBYcS…B6eeMt4.45%5%200K77.8Good
53793Q99nhdKj…RkUkMn4.71%derived0%114K100.0Excellent
53891oPXTs2oq…SctwMt4.45%5%206K77.9Good
5398yjHdsCgx3…KJBqhN4.71%derived0%188K100.0Excellent
5408x5Tti54yD…bJ1to44.71%derived0%0—Insufficient data
5418W8v28d1fB…Usob6Z4.46%5%219K78.8Good
5428vk6QpG93J…5E5JhU4.47%derived5%280K79.4Good
5438uPW9msN75…Zr3jCo4.45%5%164K77.8Good
5448uJiHDJ1b7…y9nxvM4.71%derived0%1,000K100.0Excellent
5458tjFeSApQ8…zNnYC72.82%40%1.00M58.8Degraded
5468T8AJfUCXw…yhLhFJ4.38%5%176K71.4Degraded
5478pyp3vfVPR…DcRV3w4.65%1%218K94.7Excellent
5488o8wWCYNwP…B6fe5i4.47%5%756K79.4Good
5498Nvaxzif1N…DkgaNy4.39%5%170K72.4Degraded
5508NpDWRcKHk…GSdSgr4.23%10%243K58.8Degraded
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