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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
201mds4GEuiSg…LHcT6Z4.24%derived10%341K58.8Degraded
202mint13XHZS…xeLB8f4.50%5%340K81.9Good
203Diman2GphW…diDZau4.71%derived0%339K100.0Excellent
204HcZvwZ83Pf…tmL4qv4.47%derived5%338K79.4Good
205BEsnodYCgi…fRHUTG4.71%derived0%338K100.0Excellent
206juigBT2qet…FKkqY64.01%5%334K58.8Degraded
207EfPYQ4BUMi…gWHuyp4.33%8%325K67.1Degraded
2085VrW7YNBcc…9mN8Ec4.46%5%319K78.6Good
209D1Vbgkrhp1…R8QMC14.71%derived0%317K100.0Excellent
2103WDh9HgusC…1Awo354.71%derived0%316K100.0Excellent
2114XspXDcJy3…jmWWNy4.71%derived0%311K100.0Excellent
212D2RV1q6Fge…NKSDsX4.47%derived5%311K79.4Good
2135tfcGyf3NQ…aC3Zwm4.68%1%310K98.0Excellent
214gUvo3g5LfH…hwYqis4.71%derived0%308K100.0Excellent
215RBFiUqjYuy…vDAsFM4.42%6%308K75.3Good
216PuRposE4ut…EUram44.46%5%307K78.5Good
217BGD4V7L4aZ…59hQs74.24%derived10%306K—Insufficient data
218CEL22Qx7p8…ZdT8Ns4.71%derived0%303K100.0Excellent
2199AW87WqARQ…NUXDPD4.71%derived0%302K100.0Excellent
220HT41udB8mL…iviXk54.71%derived0%302K100.0Excellent
2217S22CYpfBR…E2bYvJ—100%300K0.0Poor
222AHZxzLeRGR…bfEmYR—100%300K0.0Poor
223AfZTWYoFQb…ryxtKc4.44%5%300K77.0Good
2249gFxqsXbFy…QoXrUJ4.71%derived0%299K100.0Excellent
225BULKzVM41W…xraf8b4.71%derived0%297K100.0Excellent
226Raydiumm3w…UKMsMc4.47%5%295K79.4Good
2272dfgsiSaZ5…Qb8YEC4.47%5%292K79.7Good
228FACb6bbTDR…YAMv2o4.51%4%291K82.4Good
229SSmBEooM7R…JKoQLY4.46%5%287K78.8Good
2302oHUYyW2PU…kxW4ns0.00%100%286K0.0Poor
231BoNKmNCGvo…A4t5as4.71%derived0%284K100.0Excellent
2327RtC1QgiNV…GuJ6Gr4.33%derived8%282K67.1Degraded
233FNTPSUuRpD…YUfNRL4.71%derived0%282K100.0Excellent
234rsbp8zMHbG…CD9BiU4.46%5%281K78.6Good
2358vk6QpG93J…5E5JhU4.47%derived5%280K79.4Good
236EQhTjikb1L…peM44W4.71%derived0%279K100.0Excellent
2375MAGJ3zSht…7KpjcB4.56%3%277K87.7Good
238qZMH9GWnnB…xDQrbP4.71%derived0%276K100.0Excellent
2392mDrrmhSzp…iJDby24.71%derived0%274K100.0Excellent
240gridqZmeBc…LD1cAd4.46%5%274K78.8Good
241DP9SwUE9Wi…pt8GgZ4.56%3%267K87.6Good
2423KiDz3wuZr…F5ei3F4.47%5%266K79.2Good
243UPSCQNqdbi…o7GubF4.33%8%265K67.1Degraded
244adramSYKBv…4fpfi74.46%5%265K78.8Good
245ALPHA6rdHZ…tZ1T7R4.71%derived0%265K100.0Excellent
24643Am3PKFeo…qZXEW24.44%5%260K76.5Good
247PRGNnb8DxV…V1BGKN4.46%5%259K78.6Good
248G8kUFxhR7e…Bo55kJ4.48%5%257K79.8Good
249radM7PKUpZ…KkftP94.46%5%257K78.5Good
25061QB1Evn9E…JJfEQk4.50%5%256K81.6Good
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