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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.

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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
5518LDyyeJQTj…WSTt8D4.71%derived0%162K100.0Excellent
5528hAYbagNt7…ybjJsN4.50%5%188K82.0Good
5538GLRbAstsa…yofEz74.71%derived0%183K100.0Excellent
5548gDfqHXZ5e…Ct2LoM4.71%derived0%1.82M—Insufficient data
5558ebFZA8NPL…3sYhhs4.71%derived0%146K100.0Excellent
5568cqck84cox…3oGmu84.71%derived0%485K100.0Excellent
5578Cia7Yc8Qz…2cGgzB4.47%derived5%641—delinquent
5588BwBBt23a6…2DxGvR4.49%3%245K81.3Good
5598aySXUFrqJ…BpKmHK4.71%derived0%66K100.0Excellent
5608augxYLUge…wpnzyw4.71%derived0%134K100.0Excellent
5618AkVj5aAtJ…DjZv7c4.71%derived0%165K100.0Excellent
5628a4juhtQSc…GBnKu84.71%derived0%221K100.0Excellent
56387CcUxpyR7…VMLJL54.71%derived0%3.85M—Insufficient data
56484gC25fbFK…eqGpoW4.24%10%518K59.7Degraded
5657Zm1pE4Fub…gEAZ844.33%8%202K67.1Degraded
5667ZjHeeYEes…pG2bZJ4.47%5%176—delinquent
5677zAHbRxEQa…UNPa7G4.47%5%12K79.3Good
5687y5VhV4fkz…NWkWRL4.64%derived0%1.36M93.4Excellent
5697VZM7YHcX7…A7Y2xn4.47%5%250K79.1Good
5707tqeaFKsg2…FAngYw0.00%100%488K0.0Poor
5717S22CYpfBR…E2bYvJ—100%300K0.0Poor
5727RtC1QgiNV…GuJ6Gr4.07%derived8%282K56.3Degraded
5737QQGNm3ptw…7nwLpE—100%1.88M0.0Poor
5747qGNnXKW1e…tRyMQc4.71%derived0%2.24M100.0Excellent
5757pR7t5axFf…5MmHTB4.71%derived0%45K100.0Excellent
5767PpXQgDb9e…qvaJXd4.71%derived0%83K100.0Excellent
5777PdKhpKz7T…aUckFf4.47%5%768K79.4Good
5787nzTzRZzez…uYzt7A4.71%derived0%148K100.0Excellent
5797Nu9ckgtjo…KMM9NB4.71%derived0%135K100.0Excellent
5807Nn8qBJey7…uf49yV4.71%derived0%40K100.0Excellent
5817MTjmteQHh…NxHFGE4.71%derived5%166K100.0Excellent
5827knvB4bbqH…LdRfkx4.71%derived0%74K100.0Excellent
5837HMHSdQkjD…KXcKt54.71%derived5%81K100.0Excellent
5847GkMBmtrTZ…mJD4We4.53%4%421K84.7Good
5857G4RfctwLL…Rv8i7v4.71%derived100%76—delinquent
5867EzbSahSfS…QnEtjE4.71%derived0%696K100.0Excellent
5877Dvp5zCFtV…zUDjTq—100%1—Insufficient data
5887d7x84jiVt…Py8oVi4.47%5%35K79.7Good
5897cVfgArChe…5xkxXy4.43%6%1.24M75.5Good
5907CR6whiYUL…BQKiVe4.59%3%96K89.9Good
5917CR3Jq4ny2…WjAqCT—100%589K0.0Poor
592777idJ8gG2…aU8nN24.49%5%84K80.8Good
59376rcGHdPvg…S2TBBJ—100%2.50M0.0Poor
59474Xkp2iLXm…PRSgN54.45%5%170K77.8Good
59574MzXStH8p…Sn37nE4.48%5%349K80.6Good
59673hojLdq1v…Sdv6BZ4.46%5%200K78.4Good
597722RdWmHC5…z6Xzbp4.43%6%1.66M75.6Good
59871F3mXrwgu…XEhaPy4.71%derived0%51K100.0Excellent
5996YY2VS44RP…wHpTqM4.71%derived0%814K100.0Excellent
6006yFGGAgYpB…YtKrwE4.47%5%904K79.4Good
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