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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
351DEU4agzdUC…r823Uu4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
352DefiihS7gL…Fe56CY4.47%derived5%86K—delinquent
353DeepM3FDWa…78z51p4.71%derived0%56K100.0Excellent
354DDnAqxJVFo…Hoshdp4.42%2%175K75.1Good
355DcTPJqPNrT…Ev7KPZ4.71%derived0%1.23M100.0Excellent
356dcntruDNP5…Q8H7Vu4.46%5%202K78.6Good
357DCKyEmMENQ…SDCzKA4.46%5%96K78.4Good
358DaRKu4L3qA…mQS1dE4.47%derived10%118K79.4Good
359D8xKNftHzF…57KK4e4.46%5%96K78.3Good
360D4r6Rcua2L…bugvCG4.71%derived0%121K100.0Excellent
361D4KUs6wFY8…mGBt6e—100%8K0.0Poor
362D3htsc6iRQ…aNcTQz4.57%5%78K88.0Good
363D2RV1q6Fge…NKSDsX4.47%derived5%311K79.4Good
364D1Vbgkrhp1…R8QMC14.71%derived0%317K100.0Excellent
365D1A4F2yh38…SSePKe4.71%derived0%70K100.0Excellent
366CZMekcZwyK…mtinPf—100%1—delinquent
367CZanBzZHFz…i4J6dr4.47%5%78K79.2Good
368cybi55ebub…W6vFkC4.71%derived5%122K100.0Excellent
369CwyVpfmfSi…zcBuD24.71%derived0%1.06M100.0Excellent
370CW9C7HBwAM…Vacd1A4.33%8%1.59M66.9Degraded
371CVvaeDPR2o…aEL4Cm4.71%derived0%391K100.0Excellent
372CVRr5oHCAA…Vu8v8e4.71%derived0%177K100.0Excellent
373CVGwNaC1Fa…MyHnw64.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
374CVgwMrWo9c…eNubr64.71%derived5%155K100.0Excellent
375CuStTdKU5n…1G2hTw0.00%100%16K0.0Poor
376Cu9Ls6dsTL…5FRq864.71%derived0%495K100.0Excellent
377CtzN7ysR5r…G7ecNP4.47%derived5%115K79.4Good
378CTwsruptUc…SG213y4.71%derived0%139K100.0Excellent
379CtvdyHYt8c…225uMW4.71%derived0%117K100.0Excellent
380CTDGxTK789…YYqXxC4.71%derived5%60K100.0Excellent
381CRNyGD7xNP…nmTi8r4.61%2%20K91.8Excellent
382CQYPRQ4vqn…L6nMUD—100%1—delinquent
383CQdLgwkmmH…Tmow124.71%derived0%1.84M—Insufficient data
384CpNnGGhgVA…7YgavX4.48%5%137K80.5Good
385CpgSfd6QUo…fSbNEE4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
386CpdzCVzaR9…MBs6Rn4.71%derived100%193—delinquent
387Cogent51kH…d4ypdA4.71%derived0%502K100.0Excellent
388CoG8d9Fp2T…svRgmJ4.71%derived0%2.19M100.0Excellent
389CMPSSdrTnR…5z6gbd4.71%derived0%1.41M100.0Excellent
390CLsFr1KZVb…jBMaoE4.28%5%190K62.9Degraded
391CjmXSapt1o…RscwYD4.71%derived0%132K100.0Excellent
392CJFQNDPydt…CBL4g24.71%derived0%89K—Insufficient data
393ciTyjzN9iy…Er6cQj4.71%derived0%195K100.0Excellent
394chrtyETASK…NVqnJL4.46%5%117K78.5Good
395ChorusmmK7…1EH15n4.51%8%1.62M82.9Good
396chopskqnud…ucAwfb4.48%5%119K80.6Good
397ChKZmewGBz…mR7g413.97%10%167K58.8Degraded
398chdvWr6T14…u3AfHe4.46%5%96K78.6Good
399ChaossRPGK…ZNz5d64.71%derived0%828—delinquent
400CfgRXmp1LE…RxVSoW4.71%derived0%1.39M100.0Excellent
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