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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

753 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 753 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

401–450 of 753 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
4015t4shVsKnU…qqEVEW4.47%derived5%51K79.4Good
402FFevTkywys…hJiYnr4.47%derived5%35K79.4Good
4032bpfa8JbFf…PgXd2d4.47%derived8%30K79.4Good
4049D3o3EYekn…gPZJDA4.47%5%37K79.4Good
405SQDS9iwyWv…uMRBkA4.47%4%125K79.4Good
4066yFGGAgYpB…YtKrwE4.47%5%904K79.4Good
407fhsM2sxME8…HeYZxe4.47%5%139K79.4Good
4087PdKhpKz7T…aUckFf4.47%5%768K79.4Good
409tkmaiSoZ3F…ohx3WJ4.47%5%113K79.4Good
4108o8wWCYNwP…B6fe5i4.47%5%756K79.4Good
411AdSHK6vpQn…pAxL1y4.47%5%35K79.4Good
412KAW1LjxH73…R4QjkW4.47%5%81K79.3Good
4137zAHbRxEQa…UNPa7G4.47%5%12K79.3Good
414Va1idLRtYE…3eraJh4.47%5%643K79.3Good
415Df16xM2XWz…yS4r654.47%5%1.53M79.3Good
416fishfishrD…QPMJqF4.47%5%505K79.3Good
4173KiDz3wuZr…F5ei3F4.47%5%266K79.3Good
418KAoSp3EudG…4ySbJJ4.47%5%82K79.2Good
4195FbKKGdEaF…cSQ2a54.47%5%114K79.2Good
420HyperSPG8w…dXJUud4.47%5%39879.2Good
421mythxvB89e…oDFYyk4.47%5%115K79.2Good
422CZanBzZHFz…i4J6dr4.47%5%78K79.2Good
423Certusm1sa…S6hJ244.47%5%376K79.2Good
4247VZM7YHcX7…A7Y2xn4.47%5%250K79.1Good
4253psxMyr7rQ…t2sMQW4.47%5%2.61M79.1Good
426ANC1u9sY36…SPzKsk4.47%5%681K79.1Good
4273cZSHGfNda…NR5pgA4.47%5%636K79.0Good
4286Rk694kh1Q…311Mr74.47%5%92K79.0Good
429BJvrWSfonX…BumTca4.47%5%98K78.9Good
4306gL3uHvuUj…ByzEHd4.47%5%97K78.9Good
431gridqZmeBc…LD1cAd4.46%5%274K78.9Good
432adramSYKBv…4fpfi74.46%5%265K78.8Good
4338W8v28d1fB…Usob6Z4.46%5%219K78.8Good
434EATpCzQNs8…mcsY7f4.46%5%96K78.8Good
435phz1CRbEsC…9yFNn24.46%5%146K78.8Good
436Pid6HQnMCF…Jfooix4.46%5%203K78.8Good
437SSmBEooM7R…JKoQLY4.46%5%287K78.8Good
438odcvDWH5wH…BKDGzS4.46%5%119K78.8Good
4396xUK9Nbonr…6deX4d4.46%5%152K78.8Good
4405aD6KB8g4M…iMFZw74.46%5%193K78.7Good
441PAD9aPiKJG…WuX6a84.46%4%131K78.7Good
442LiFiDJwJjW…kERiX64.46%5%107K78.7Good
443MBVyz9s72W…2Mees94.46%5%183K78.7Good
444dcntruDNP5…Q8H7Vu4.46%5%202K78.6Good
445Lake8NXDTh…sFNrsL4.46%5%157K78.6Good
446rsbp8zMHbG…CD9BiU4.46%5%281K78.6Good
4475VrW7YNBcc…9mN8Ec4.46%5%319K78.6Good
448sTEVErNNwF…n7WUFu4.46%5%95K78.6Good
449dst2u7mXMy…DKE9xH4.46%5%96K78.6Good
450RoYLttggWw…R8pTz44.46%5%97K78.6Good
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