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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.

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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
401CfgRXmp1LE…RxVSoW4.71%derived0%1.39M100.0Excellent
402Certusm1sa…S6hJ244.47%5%376K79.2Good
403CEL22Qx7p8…ZdT8Ns4.71%derived0%303K100.0Excellent
404CeJjdkRwfq…JBcQwC4.71%derived0%113K100.0Excellent
405CARBN9PY1Q…Va48ky4.47%derived5%86K79.4Good
406capyS1jerx…RGLsQf4.46%5%164K78.1Good
407CAo1dCGYrB…umSve44.25%10%9.27M54.4Degraded
408C8Bey3LKVJ…99JP1k4.38%7%9.26M65.9Degraded
409C6yZKSQpce…KYRgi4—100%1—delinquent
410c3rtoMCHSb…JwkHwx4.42%5%127K75.0Good
411C1ocKDYMCm…ysyzcA4.71%derived0%990K100.0Excellent
412BZBKHmW1Dh…c6nGLb4.47%derived5%1—delinquent
413ByszyWdqC3…xS5vnm4.47%5%188K79.8Good
414By8MseMKtZ…3ktrHt4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
415bxrAptB5Zp…23Rrq64.45%5%82K77.9Good
416BxkAkLR2W3…st99KY4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
417BXAxLMMMUN…ghmRtH4.61%2%794K91.8Excellent
418BVHwHvRNwt…hGuUTR4.71%derived0%76K—Insufficient data
419BUv44cVtsd…5ARyyB0.00%100%1.94M0.0Poor
420BuonuQoAR7…zaJ97G4.71%derived4%84K100.0Excellent
421BUokhb8pPF…iVv3jb4.71%derived0%891K100.0Excellent
422BULKzVM41W…xraf8b4.40%derived0%297K70.8Degraded
423BtsmiEEvnS…J1DAaH0.00%100%4.05M0.0Poor
424BTGPbq4KuF…sZnMLb4.46%5%220K78.4Good
425BSVckjdW2f…xgEdwq—100%2.50M0.0Poor
426BSGMRbK97D…RBTZxU4.37%5%161K70.5Degraded
427BRAZAtTTzR…n4A6GT4.35%5%131K68.4Degraded
428BR1aTt4ZZU…eSwUB84.50%5%94K81.8Good
429BPKAfGkkzF…EMNMCT4.49%5%168K81.1Good
430BpdmpWst6J…St8vFH4.47%derived5%0—Insufficient data
431bookoVmqw4…M7A5Lo4.49%5%138K80.8Good
432BoNKmNCGvo…A4t5as4.71%derived0%284K100.0Excellent
433BNtHBLo1L2…jtubrg4.48%5%206K80.4Good
434BLUEHGDihX…XaJokR0.47%90%65K58.8Degraded
435bkpk9KVsDR…MGiR8Z4.71%derived0%569K100.0Excellent
436BkoS26vBua…8KsLHd4.33%8%1.54M66.8Degraded
437BJvrWSfonX…BumTca4.47%5%98K78.9Good
438BitokuDHQi…axM3Kh4.46%5%187K78.2Good
439bitHUmbKSQ…duUHfb—100%1.34M0.0Poor
440Bi9kKNxfW2…LyVoQ44.71%derived0%370K100.0Excellent
441BhNnboEZb3…eRTKGY4.71%derived0%107K100.0Excellent
442BGD4V7L4aZ…59hQs74.24%derived10%306K—Insufficient data
443BGAjnivVWq…ui3SEk4.66%derived1%196K95.9Excellent
444BFmqBsaGje…crWmzy4.71%derived0%830K100.0Excellent
445BeSovDCzhE…teNzXM4.71%derived0%226K100.0Excellent
446BEsnodYCgi…fRHUTG4.71%derived0%338K100.0Excellent
447BeaCHioStq…eEiTPb4.33%8%632K67.3Degraded
448bcZxRSozXD…Xi5K8V4.71%derived0%0—Insufficient data
449BCJN2vZFAH…3mSWuh4.71%derived0%95K100.0Excellent
450BCeczqpTRP…ndrV1p4.47%5%57K79.5Good
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