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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

201–250 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
201CVGwNaC1Fa…MyHnw64.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
202DeepM3FDWa…78z51p4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
2032nhGaJvR17…gRdQot4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
204FdH9QEQBxP…RjTQwj4.71%derived0%53K100.0Excellent
205B94PGWcxE9…pQxh6S4.71%derived0%52K100.0Excellent
20671F3mXrwgu…XEhaPy4.71%derived0%51K100.0Excellent
207GqDCbnafLm…82jPUf4.71%derived0%50K100.0Excellent
2082jS8AX38m8…SJcWwo4.71%derived0%47K100.0Excellent
2097pR7t5axFf…5MmHTB4.71%derived0%45K100.0Excellent
210rssaJ2iKcE…GMzWQr4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
211DEU4agzdUC…r823Uu4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
212ssx2rHZNVy…uhb4774.71%derived0%42K100.0Excellent
2137Nn8qBJey7…uf49yV4.71%derived0%40K100.0Excellent
214suoHAQF4NJ…XTsu5U4.71%derived0%37K100.0Excellent
215omeg2wsojz…oXCwSd4.71%derived4%36K100.0Excellent
2163DaifGfDES…uggHVe4.71%derived0%34K100.0Excellent
21749j9bnkdgV…8ijBrb4.71%derived5%33K100.0Excellent
2182Le6TjeEes…BCHUr54.71%derived0%20K100.0Excellent
2196bBw4LYVzX…ZmNeKy4.71%derived0%15K100.0Excellent
220HzrEstnLfz…9swo1f4.71%derived99%15K100.0Excellent
2212abwQG3v2x…jyLeaK4.71%derived0%12K100.0Excellent
222Xoir1BnQX9…AV64Re4.71%derived0%10K100.0Excellent
223toshB4tPQT…Wiexn24.71%derived0%161100.0Excellent
224ana2y2YvQ3…q9xcfY4.71%derived0%2.49M99.6Excellent
225DrifTrN923…mZxatz4.71%derived0%2.81M99.1Excellent
2265tfcGyf3NQ…aC3Zwm4.68%1%310K98.0Excellent
227shftkxnsXm…HfVikj4.71%derived0%3.65M98.0Excellent
228J6etcxDdYj…FPJEbK4.71%derived0%3.90M97.7Excellent
229hy1oMaD3Vi…zYXnwu4.67%derived0%586K96.4Excellent
2303tm92VTxwy…uUACCk4.66%5%91K96.3Excellent
231AMukCLCr52…aR6DJF4.66%1%1.43M96.2Excellent
232G9vCpJUUSp…zCGvzM4.66%1%532K95.9Excellent
233BGAjnivVWq…ui3SEk4.66%derived1%196K95.9Excellent
234DNVZMSqeRH…23eWkf4.66%1%1.92M95.9Excellent
235Awes4Tr6TX…yGvpLM4.71%derived0%6.41M95.6Excellent
236JD549HsbJH…UrHybB4.71%derived0%6.69M95.4Excellent
237FBbqKvwLfK…BkSe894.65%1%1.91M95.0Excellent
2388pyp3vfVPR…DcRV3w4.65%1%218K94.7Excellent
239DidkDYa64D…QGihi54.64%5%366K94.1Excellent
240LodeuWMHPi…GJ9TSS4.64%1%104K93.9Excellent
241E1r4Psq84t…5RdxHL4.71%derived0%11.22M93.2Excellent
2424QNekaDqrL…unx9su4.63%2%184K93.1Excellent
243DRpbCBMxVn…km21hy4.71%derived0%12.32M92.9Excellent
244BXAxLMMMUN…ghmRtH4.61%2%794K91.8Excellent
245CRNyGD7xNP…nmTi8r4.61%2%20K91.8Excellent
246Ex1AxFCipX…HiXAaT4.61%2%893K91.8Excellent
247HEL1USMZKA…v1e2TU4.71%derived0%15.94M91.8Excellent
2487CR6whiYUL…BQKiVe4.59%3%96K89.9Good
2499UM8wQ8F5o…isJd9i4.61%2%3.75M89.6Good
2505RvfTSowms…mBAwCs4.57%3%774K88.3Good
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