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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

351–400 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
351MBVyz9s72W…2Mees94.46%5%183K78.7Good
352SFundNVpuW…sPZLos4.47%derived5%182K79.4Good
3531ggyZGbYtE…pnszLT4.49%5%180K80.7Good
354simpRo1FrQ…hjXYJb4.51%5%180K82.8Good
355sbidYi7fbi…sKqNux4.71%derived0%179K100.0Excellent
3565AsoSeQtLo…CP1k3H4.45%5%179K78.0Good
357CVRr5oHCAA…Vu8v8e4.71%derived0%177K100.0Excellent
3588T8AJfUCXw…yhLhFJ4.38%5%176K71.4Degraded
3595XKJwdKB2H…AMPtoQ4.46%5%176K78.4Good
360DDnAqxJVFo…Hoshdp4.42%2%175K75.1Good
3614VrjyXQT61…Lotq3n4.71%derived0%175K100.0Excellent
362novaeuhY2J…CtARZn4.46%5%174K78.4Good
363nymsGg7ZXc…LPyGDV4.71%derived0%172K100.0Excellent
3648Nvaxzif1N…DkgaNy4.39%5%170K72.4Degraded
36574Xkp2iLXm…PRSgN54.45%5%170K77.8Good
366BPKAfGkkzF…EMNMCT4.49%5%168K81.1Good
367GmCxjmjKZo…fofaF54.71%derived0%168K100.0Excellent
368AbvfvRfKHD…xQxg1x4.15%10%167K58.8Degraded
369ChKZmewGBz…mR7g413.97%10%167K58.8Degraded
370PKdLMugp1M…o6eJoQ4.43%5%167K76.2Good
371parafiUS6h…Tq46dS4.71%derived0%167K100.0Excellent
3727MTjmteQHh…NxHFGE4.71%derived5%166K100.0Excellent
373vaoJKVZYPA…QaEiva4.71%derived0%166K100.0Excellent
3748AkVj5aAtJ…DjZv7c4.71%derived0%165K100.0Excellent
375capyS1jerx…RGLsQf4.46%5%164K78.1Good
376GFXVa19rX6…DRo23V4.71%derived0%164K100.0Excellent
3778uPW9msN75…Zr3jCo4.45%5%164K77.8Good
3788LDyyeJQTj…WSTt8D4.71%derived0%162K100.0Excellent
379yJeahQNRHN…uYVwxt4.45%5%162K78.0Good
380LunaowJnt8…rqc57c4.46%5%162K78.2Good
381BSGMRbK97D…RBTZxU4.37%5%161K70.5Degraded
3825zm9g3zgAP…LFwCKK4.56%5%160K86.9Good
383HnwMGBAw5P…dnJmeq4.33%5%159K67.0Degraded
384RAuSNo4DRj…cPHK1D4.45%5%158K74.1Degraded
385Lake8NXDTh…sFNrsL4.46%5%157K78.6Good
386BbCQMWnfxo…1ivCi44.71%derived0%157K—Insufficient data
387GGX3BEoZDq…mVuZNS4.57%3%155K87.8Good
388CVgwMrWo9c…eNubr64.71%derived5%155K100.0Excellent
389jagBNeXYnc…SJZ6vT4.44%5%154K76.8Good
3906k1YkmTKwP…L9jycB4.71%derived0%153K100.0Excellent
3916xUK9Nbonr…6deX4d4.46%5%152K78.8Good
3929XhmwxwWto…Zb7ct74.71%derived0%152K—Insufficient data
393SaGAgdkowo…xYFnXJ4.47%derived5%151K79.4Good
394A23LfQn6kh…YQgiX24.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
395MagiCBYNPD…XQZxuV4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
3962X7WoaXX9K…jWRthz4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
397HLXxkmjb47…Emh2Qh4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
3984Kbcyn7JVP…sUC6jP4.45%5%150K77.7Good
399Ste1115xFG…327zty4.71%derived0%149K100.0Excellent
4007nzTzRZzez…uYzt7A4.71%derived0%148K100.0Excellent
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