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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

651–700 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
651By8MseMKtZ…3ktrHt4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
652CpgSfd6QUo…fSbNEE4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
6532uxEHizFmm…xjt87m4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
654BxkAkLR2W3…st99KY4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
655KTMkUG8WCw…HHbsNM4.71%derived0%91K100.0Excellent
656LitxAVo3Rn…PZjZwE4.71%derived0%90K100.0Excellent
6579ueKvL3WiL…ibx1Zq4.71%derived0%90K100.0Excellent
658nodeEgRVkb…jMfN1D4.71%derived0%86K100.0Excellent
6596xFDLX751L…PDbWoJ4.71%derived0%85K100.0Excellent
6605ysfTZ42VT…YKDs5d4.71%derived0%84K100.0Excellent
6617PpXQgDb9e…qvaJXd4.71%derived0%83K100.0Excellent
662Fy7RCjDdFL…dUHf5o4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
6633CKKAoVi94…kSUofX4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
664FyLVPAKkgd…UnC8uA4.71%derived0%75K100.0Excellent
6657knvB4bbqH…LdRfkx4.71%derived0%74K100.0Excellent
666NoditgWLFb…M4EJpu4.71%derived0%72K100.0Excellent
667D1A4F2yh38…SSePKe4.71%derived0%70K100.0Excellent
6688aySXUFrqJ…BpKmHK4.71%derived0%66K100.0Excellent
669MargusJeV9…go8Tfj4.71%derived0%62K100.0Excellent
6709bkyxgYxRr…dH2Uvr4.71%derived0%61K100.0Excellent
6712icWF7Tvxy…qUij1B4.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
672CVGwNaC1Fa…MyHnw64.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
673DeepM3FDWa…78z51p4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
6742nhGaJvR17…gRdQot4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
675FdH9QEQBxP…RjTQwj4.71%derived0%53K100.0Excellent
676B94PGWcxE9…pQxh6S4.71%derived0%52K100.0Excellent
67771F3mXrwgu…XEhaPy4.71%derived0%51K100.0Excellent
678GqDCbnafLm…82jPUf4.71%derived0%50K100.0Excellent
6792jS8AX38m8…SJcWwo4.71%derived0%47K100.0Excellent
6807pR7t5axFf…5MmHTB4.71%derived0%45K100.0Excellent
681rssaJ2iKcE…GMzWQr4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
682DEU4agzdUC…r823Uu4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
683ssx2rHZNVy…uhb4774.71%derived0%42K100.0Excellent
6847Nn8qBJey7…uf49yV4.71%derived0%40K100.0Excellent
685suoHAQF4NJ…XTsu5U4.71%derived0%37K100.0Excellent
6863DaifGfDES…uggHVe4.71%derived0%34K100.0Excellent
6872Le6TjeEes…BCHUr54.71%derived0%20K100.0Excellent
6886bBw4LYVzX…ZmNeKy4.71%derived0%15K100.0Excellent
6892abwQG3v2x…jyLeaK4.71%derived0%12K100.0Excellent
690Xoir1BnQX9…AV64Re4.71%derived0%10K100.0Excellent
691ana2y2YvQ3…q9xcfY4.71%derived0%2.49M99.6Excellent
692DrifTrN923…mZxatz4.71%derived0%2.81M99.1Excellent
693shftkxnsXm…HfVikj4.71%derived0%3.65M98.0Excellent
694J6etcxDdYj…FPJEbK4.71%derived0%3.90M97.7Excellent
695hy1oMaD3Vi…zYXnwu4.67%derived0%586K96.4Excellent
6967y5VhV4fkz…NWkWRL4.67%derived0%1.36M96.3Excellent
697JD549HsbJH…UrHybB4.71%derived0%6.69M95.4Excellent
698Awes4Tr6TX…yGvpLM4.70%derived0%6.41M95.2Excellent
699E1r4Psq84t…5RdxHL4.71%derived0%11.22M93.2Excellent
700DRpbCBMxVn…km21hy4.71%derived0%12.32M92.9Excellent
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