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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

51–100 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
51SQDS9iwyWv…uMRBkA4.47%4%125K79.4Good
52spur5CDwBv…q7zgvD4.42%derived1%106K75.3Good
53spcti6GQVv…mK4M5F4.71%derived0%227K100.0Excellent
54soLStaCk5T…826e9N4.71%derived0%253K100.0Excellent
55SLNDCSGTEs…tRpdU24.46%5%252K78.2Good
56SLAY6uN1zZ…fS3n414.47%derived5%209K79.4Good
57simpRo1FrQ…hjXYJb4.51%5%180K82.8Good
58siidBVew9g…xrYWbi4.71%derived0%820K100.0Excellent
59shftkxnsXm…HfVikj4.71%derived0%3.65M98.0Excellent
60sfvTq7ojrE…SdRDAB4.56%derived5%90K87.6Good
61SFundNVpuW…sPZLos4.47%derived5%182K79.4Good
62scs2Ra91pM…pVMJko4.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
63scs1NCSTaf…Ekf25i4.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
64sce3TfT81r…6WLSzE4.24%derived10%59K58.8Degraded
65sce2zXNjLp…g2H37U4.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
66sce1oTWYVX…Si5tgE4.24%derived10%59K58.8Degraded
67scb2TYPmwH…bCKZZR4.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
68scb1Z7du8N…L739Y14.24%10%59K58.8Degraded
69sCANXAaS1a…KKPkfY4.47%5%113K79.8Good
70sbidYi7fbi…sKqNux4.71%derived0%179K100.0Excellent
71SANDCxXBbQ…aS4mXU4.50%5%59K82.2Good
72SaGAgdkowo…xYFnXJ4.47%derived5%151K79.4Good
73SA1LFXr4os…4SmRcr4.46%5%71K78.5Good
74rssaJ2iKcE…GMzWQr4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
75rsbp8zMHbG…CD9BiU4.46%5%281K78.6Good
76RoYLttggWw…R8pTz44.46%5%97K78.6Good
77RoYFUUD7QD…moy5S44.71%derived0%134K100.0Excellent
78RNXnAJV1De…4ovwZz4.47%5%497K79.7Good
79RLMS1pv3YK…QpqZJo4.47%derived5%1—delinquent
80revtecFsGS…4fyH5K4.24%derived10%113K58.8Degraded
81ReFiqMfGnc…F2QnfR4.45%5%143K77.4Good
82RBFiUqjYuy…vDAsFM4.42%6%308K75.3Good
83Raydiumm3w…UKMsMc4.47%5%295K79.4Good
84RAuSNo4DRj…cPHK1D4.45%5%158K73.1Degraded
85rapXHroUoG…YarvSC4.51%5%102K82.8Good
86radM7PKUpZ…KkftP94.46%5%257K78.5Good
87R2D2imoV8n…WbFruq4.25%5%190K60.5Degraded
88R1parD2Ctx…qvAJR34.47%derived5%3—delinquent
89qZMH9GWnnB…xDQrbP4.71%derived0%276K100.0Excellent
90PuRposE4ut…EUram44.46%5%307K78.5Good
91PUmpKiNnSV…o54xjb4.71%derived0%1.00M100.0Excellent
92puffinQSvK…r1jsyy4.71%derived0%206K100.0Excellent
93pSoLoZx55z…jbYgT24.54%4%2K85.3Good
94pSo1KZXgG1…kVnkfc4.52%derived4%1.60M—Insufficient data
95prt1st4RSx…sdYRXW4.47%5%6K—delinquent
96privaEdSEm…7C5wUM—100%1.32M0.0Poor
97PRGNnb8DxV…V1BGKN4.46%5%259K78.6Good
98ppppoqHcHV…rziyHE4.14%5%121K58.8Degraded
99popscoyTKV…MQopKu4.71%derived0%188K100.0Excellent
100PKdLMugp1M…o6eJoQ4.43%5%167K76.2Good
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