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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

151–200 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
151E5UXkzUxqE…wgRGDT4.71%derived0%551K100.0Excellent
152GREEDkgav1…GwmNKc4.71%derived0%550K100.0Excellent
1532Df1aLCRYi…GJfR9E4.23%10%542K58.8Degraded
154FLwV8tm3pL…wrfega4.71%derived0%535K100.0Excellent
155G9vCpJUUSp…zCGvzM4.66%1%532K95.9Excellent
1566XJ4aKjsKQ…78doFu4.71%derived0%531K—Insufficient data
1572mMGsb5uy1…PaVHHd4.00%5%528K58.8Degraded
158AqyRvpjjSN…HcJ2o74.52%4%524K83.5Good
159EJsJx7Smt3…5tkJk84.24%derived10%520K—Insufficient data
1602X5yarNUWG…2J1to14.53%4%520K84.9Good
161AH6jC785Xt…JAveyc4.71%derived0%519K—Insufficient data
16284gC25fbFK…eqGpoW4.24%10%518K59.6Degraded
1634VRs6A9zBR…C3T4Nv4.47%5%510K79.4Good
164fishfishrD…QPMJqF4.47%5%505K79.3Good
165Cogent51kH…d4ypdA4.71%derived0%502K100.0Excellent
166RNXnAJV1De…4ovwZz4.47%5%497K79.7Good
167Cu9Ls6dsTL…5FRq864.71%derived0%495K100.0Excellent
1683YVoK8UN62…NRs9BE4.46%5%494K78.7Good
1697tqeaFKsg2…FAngYw0.00%100%488K0.0Poor
170HaLanfo94e…triEqN0.00%100%487K0.0Poor
1718cqck84cox…3oGmu84.71%derived0%485K100.0Excellent
172HnrXmm65Cy…6BxTYA4.71%derived0%467K100.0Excellent
173HW4zorvt6x…KW4cqV4.47%derived0%465K79.4Good
1746vG7fgweSf…TKNjUW4.71%derived0%460K100.0Excellent
1754SNKY7GCp7…4yvtks0.00%100%450K0.0Poor
176EW8DFK4LPY…FeQtxE4.71%derived0%450K—Insufficient data
1776Fg7hJUXDN…o8rb734.71%derived0%446K—Insufficient data
17832ke3uf1qL…ien3zm4.38%derived7%429K71.2Degraded
1797GkMBmtrTZ…mJD4We4.53%4%421K84.7Good
180LA1NEzryoi…RpM3wc4.48%5%402K80.1Good
1813RXKQBRv7x…Mf5LnS4.71%derived0%401K100.0Excellent
1829iFPQbP1jG…ZSnz8R4.47%5%395K79.4Good
1834Nwpynvugn…gMiYDr4.71%derived0%393K100.0Excellent
184ALp2GdA1eJ…gjDs8R4.47%derived0%392K79.4Good
185CVvaeDPR2o…aEL4Cm4.71%derived0%391K100.0Excellent
186DF1owXYZ1f…tqrpwd4.47%5%389K79.4Good
187A4hyMd3Fyv…AJ1to24.52%4%384K83.5Good
1884k6wgP5WPB…eG5zSF4.71%derived0%379K100.0Excellent
189Certusm1sa…S6hJ244.47%5%376K79.2Good
190Bi9kKNxfW2…LyVoQ44.71%derived0%370K100.0Excellent
191EUDis6LJeJ…unC2Ej4.47%derived5%369K79.4Good
192DidkDYa64D…QGihi54.64%5%366K94.1Excellent
193AurseT3W3t…74teU34.71%derived0%365K100.0Excellent
194WUNoB9YQXm…YwJVwp4.71%derived0%365K100.0Excellent
1959xcXe4WRAf…7PeczT4.71%derived0%363K100.0Excellent
1965d9Mdc2Zk8…7UUWwG4.47%5%361K79.4Good
197FyrwfMaomE…JD6d4j4.71%derived0%357K100.0Excellent
1989WzPWqKSqb…Wp28KR4.71%derived0%352K100.0Excellent
1992Mob8FJkb8…bASitD4.47%5%352K79.4Good
20074MzXStH8p…Sn37nE4.48%5%349K80.6Good
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