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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
201ADjyeNzWd8…QcXjop4.71%derived0%100K100.0Excellent
202uEhHSnCXvW…hC54i34.71%derived0%100K100.0Excellent
2034JahMMrVRS…MttL1E4.71%derived0%99K100.0Excellent
204AWZhUiQjrj…i411hN4.71%derived0%99K100.0Excellent
205SWiz7QwnYP…cB2cov4.71%derived5%99K100.0Excellent
206HMWXfjaeSH…MXbDGH4.71%derived0%97K100.0Excellent
2073DaPk6TdeG…gYK8BV4.71%derived0%97K100.0Excellent
2085fSQdv4zsA…RJB9NE4.71%derived5%96K100.0Excellent
209BCJN2vZFAH…3mSWuh4.71%derived0%95K100.0Excellent
210vahMVcSS3v…1P7L424.71%derived0%94K100.0Excellent
211By8MseMKtZ…3ktrHt4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
212CpgSfd6QUo…fSbNEE4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
2132uxEHizFmm…xjt87m4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
214BxkAkLR2W3…st99KY4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
215KTMkUG8WCw…HHbsNM4.71%derived0%91K100.0Excellent
216LitxAVo3Rn…PZjZwE4.71%derived0%90K100.0Excellent
2179ueKvL3WiL…ibx1Zq4.71%derived0%90K100.0Excellent
218nodeEgRVkb…jMfN1D4.71%derived0%86K100.0Excellent
2196xFDLX751L…PDbWoJ4.71%derived0%85K100.0Excellent
2205ysfTZ42VT…YKDs5d4.71%derived0%84K100.0Excellent
221BuonuQoAR7…zaJ97G4.71%derived4%84K100.0Excellent
222FphFJA451q…KxxQ1q4.71%derived5%83K100.0Excellent
2237PpXQgDb9e…qvaJXd4.71%derived0%83K100.0Excellent
224Fy7RCjDdFL…dUHf5o4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
2251Link6hB1N…U8PRDG4.71%derived5%81K100.0Excellent
2263CKKAoVi94…kSUofX4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
2277HMHSdQkjD…KXcKt54.71%derived5%81K100.0Excellent
228DupN8puwoP…axyUG44.71%derived5%80K100.0Excellent
229FyLVPAKkgd…UnC8uA4.71%derived0%75K100.0Excellent
2307knvB4bbqH…LdRfkx4.71%derived0%74K100.0Excellent
231NoditgWLFb…M4EJpu4.71%derived0%72K100.0Excellent
232D1A4F2yh38…SSePKe4.71%derived0%70K100.0Excellent
2338aySXUFrqJ…BpKmHK4.71%derived0%66K100.0Excellent
234MargusJeV9…go8Tfj4.71%derived0%62K100.0Excellent
2359bkyxgYxRr…dH2Uvr4.71%derived0%61K100.0Excellent
236CTDGxTK789…YYqXxC4.71%derived5%60K100.0Excellent
2372icWF7Tvxy…qUij1B4.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
238CVGwNaC1Fa…MyHnw64.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
239DeepM3FDWa…78z51p4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
2402nhGaJvR17…gRdQot4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
241FdH9QEQBxP…RjTQwj4.71%derived0%53K100.0Excellent
242B94PGWcxE9…pQxh6S4.71%derived0%52K100.0Excellent
24371F3mXrwgu…XEhaPy4.71%derived0%51K100.0Excellent
244GqDCbnafLm…82jPUf4.71%derived0%50K100.0Excellent
2452jS8AX38m8…SJcWwo4.71%derived0%47K100.0Excellent
2467pR7t5axFf…5MmHTB4.71%derived0%45K100.0Excellent
247rssaJ2iKcE…GMzWQr4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
248DEU4agzdUC…r823Uu4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
249ssx2rHZNVy…uhb4774.71%derived0%42K100.0Excellent
2507Nn8qBJey7…uf49yV4.71%derived0%40K100.0Excellent
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