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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

551–600 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
551FoXyHJXdQG…PS9eAk4.45%5%82K78.0Good
552MFLKSo4XDf…bCHTR44.45%5%79K78.0Good
553bxrAptB5Zp…23Rrq64.45%5%82K77.9Good
55491oPXTs2oq…SctwMt4.45%5%206K77.9Good
55597jbhVBYcS…B6eeMt4.45%5%200K77.8Good
556HrpWeJSYnQ…oGDBs64.45%5%198K77.8Good
557mALL2W6DUg…tEoG3y4.45%5%98K77.8Good
5588uPW9msN75…Zr3jCo4.45%5%164K77.8Good
55974Xkp2iLXm…PRSgN54.45%5%170K77.8Good
5604Kbcyn7JVP…sUC6jP4.45%5%150K77.7Good
561ReFiqMfGnc…F2QnfR4.45%5%143K77.5Good
562Stakex4B2t…zPitLh4.45%5%197K77.3Good
563RAuSNo4DRj…cPHK1D4.45%5%158K73.8Degraded
564avnujiRNoS…v6REZo4.44%5%142K77.1Good
565AfZTWYoFQb…ryxtKc4.44%5%300K77.0Good
566jagBNeXYnc…SJZ6vT4.44%5%154K76.8Good
567sTepQGoReJ…okLyuM4.44%5%203K76.7Good
568EBk678aQvc…c89RSV4.44%5%78K76.5Good
56943Am3PKFeo…qZXEW24.44%5%260K76.5Good
570gotasRuLTu…kgCwCX4.44%5%87K76.4Good
571PKdLMugp1M…o6eJoQ4.43%5%167K76.2Good
572jntr1vkzvS…P5uDQA4.43%5%96K75.8Good
573722RdWmHC5…z6Xzbp4.43%6%1.66M75.6Good
5747cVfgArChe…5xkxXy4.43%6%1.24M75.5Good
575DnQBmTJyLb…VRGnG44.42%5%227K75.3Good
576spur5CDwBv…q7zgvD4.42%derived1%106K75.3Good
5779fa5wcqnAQ…7jGJfZ4.42%derived6%11K—Insufficient data
578RBFiUqjYuy…vDAsFM4.42%6%308K75.3Good
579DDnAqxJVFo…Hoshdp4.42%2%175K75.1Good
580FNKgX9dYUh…zfqB8a4.42%8%3.54M73.2Degraded
581c3rtoMCHSb…JwkHwx4.42%5%127K75.0Good
5824YGgmwyqzt…K6zz6X4.42%3%63—delinquent
583vALigXFg9w…doniBY4.41%4%245K74.5Degraded
584Fd7btgySsr…2v69Nk4.40%7%17.82M64.4Degraded
585EvnRmnMrd6…JXqDo44.40%7%7.51M67.9Degraded
5869hQqNe3DQT…NRwnTf4.39%7%119K72.8Degraded
587LFGGGJtnBL…hDABBC4.39%5%87K72.7Degraded
5888Nvaxzif1N…DkgaNy4.39%5%170K72.4Degraded
589C8Bey3LKVJ…99JP1k4.38%7%9.26M65.9Degraded
5905pZvwjSpGY…M3YcNT4.38%5%209K71.8Degraded
5918T8AJfUCXw…yhLhFJ4.38%5%176K71.4Degraded
592Hj2jzpAp57…Yzwxet4.38%5%197K71.4Degraded
593DeXsDvvZzK…jzZB8t4.38%5%204K71.3Degraded
59432ke3uf1qL…ien3zm4.38%derived7%429K71.2Degraded
595HPJ2KUVgRn…jLZU1N4.38%derived7%2K71.2Degraded
5965HYjArGt81…vT9Mp44.38%5%186K71.1Degraded
5974MKi9PLRv4…PBdNSR4.38%7%61K71.1Degraded
598GiYSnFRrXr…X2WpDe4.38%5%222K71.1Degraded
599ACvL73V4GN…vh2Xmi4.37%7%679K70.6Degraded
6002N7v8pDKDY…PWTf6Z4.37%5%197K70.6Degraded
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