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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

0.06%

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

351–400 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
3516qwYjs5vCS…1EHKsw4.49%5%142K81.0Good
352777idJ8gG2…aU8nN24.49%5%84K80.8Good
353bookoVmqw4…M7A5Lo4.49%5%138K80.8Good
3541ggyZGbYtE…pnszLT4.49%5%180K80.7Good
3559pBHfuE19q…du7Nx24.48%5%189K80.6Good
35674MzXStH8p…Sn37nE4.48%5%349K80.6Good
357EydLxzdWfD…CRUkJ44.48%5%136K80.6Good
358chopskqnud…ucAwfb4.48%5%119K80.6Good
359CpNnGGhgVA…7YgavX4.48%5%137K80.5Good
360E3mDbFMr8y…c54h3F4.48%5%870K80.5Good
361icex1C6pnZ…7XXrXE4.48%5%251K80.5Good
362BNtHBLo1L2…jtubrg4.48%5%206K80.4Good
363LA1NEzryoi…RpM3wc4.48%5%402K80.1Good
364Tri1F8B6Yt…TT7ZG34.48%5%254K80.0Good
365FwnWx7x99r…6LivgZ4.48%5%224K80.0Good
3664uH4G6YiD5…cZrh6x4.48%5%197K79.9Good
367G8kUFxhR7e…Bo55kJ4.48%5%257K79.8Good
368sCANXAaS1a…KKPkfY4.47%5%113K79.8Good
369ByszyWdqC3…xS5vnm4.47%5%188K79.8Good
3707d7x84jiVt…Py8oVi4.47%5%35K79.7Good
371A9mvukTd77…tA8FAC4.47%5%1.38M79.7Good
3722dfgsiSaZ5…Qb8YEC4.47%5%292K79.7Good
3733psxMyr7rQ…t2sMQW4.47%5%2.61M79.1Good
374RNXnAJV1De…4ovwZz4.47%5%497K79.7Good
375ExCHWgfeJy…GNqjWD4.47%5%103K79.6Good
37623SUe5fzmL…M4b9Er4.47%5%675K79.6Good
3772t53LvZfsk…BaEBhM4.47%5%140K79.5Good
3783Rv6ZVGUuR…ocQJer4.47%5%92K79.5Good
379G1eAmANVWf…k5hZqN4.47%5%106K79.5Good
380prt1st4RSx…sdYRXW4.47%5%6K—delinquent
381BCeczqpTRP…ndrV1p4.47%5%57K79.5Good
382DiFeTctQSa…TELJLE4.47%5%16K79.5Good
3832Eq6YD8P8Q…CoPmQU4.47%5%112K79.5Good
384GBQ2GvTzmj…YXAAAA4.47%5%3.00M78.2Good
3857ZjHeeYEes…pG2bZJ4.47%5%176—delinquent
3869iFPQbP1jG…ZSnz8R4.47%5%395K79.4Good
387Raydiumm3w…UKMsMc4.47%5%295K79.4Good
388DF1owXYZ1f…tqrpwd4.47%5%389K79.4Good
3895essVpBYvo…LR4dRn4.47%5%1.04M79.4Good
390tboxdsRMjU…b9uVgs4.47%5%60K79.4Good
391dzBhD4wiky…smRX8Y4.47%5%18K79.4Good
392Hu7pi2Xg5K…u3oBtW4.47%5%86K79.4Good
3935d9Mdc2Zk8…7UUWwG4.47%5%361K79.4Good
394Gv9gguvrAk…mQMsWV4.47%5%814K79.4Good
3952Mob8FJkb8…bASitD4.47%5%352K79.4Good
396Ha1iade1AH…cjqJJU4.47%5%903K79.4Good
3974VRs6A9zBR…C3T4Nv4.47%5%510K79.4Good
398HSDTxfgrqY…BSLoQJ4.47%derived5%1.40M79.4Good
399mineL1YNwc…V8KfFY4.47%derived5%580K79.4Good
400HW4zorvt6x…KW4cqV4.47%derived0%465K79.4Good
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