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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

101–150 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
101nymsGg7ZXc…LPyGDV4.71%derived0%172K100.0Excellent
102GmCxjmjKZo…fofaF54.71%derived0%168K100.0Excellent
103parafiUS6h…Tq46dS4.71%derived0%167K100.0Excellent
1047MTjmteQHh…NxHFGE4.71%derived5%166K100.0Excellent
105vaoJKVZYPA…QaEiva4.71%derived0%166K100.0Excellent
1068AkVj5aAtJ…DjZv7c4.71%derived0%165K100.0Excellent
107GFXVa19rX6…DRo23V4.71%derived0%164K100.0Excellent
1088LDyyeJQTj…WSTt8D4.71%derived0%162K100.0Excellent
109CVgwMrWo9c…eNubr64.71%derived5%155K100.0Excellent
1106k1YkmTKwP…L9jycB4.71%derived0%153K100.0Excellent
111A23LfQn6kh…YQgiX24.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
112MagiCBYNPD…XQZxuV4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
1132X7WoaXX9K…jWRthz4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
114HLXxkmjb47…Emh2Qh4.71%derived0%151K100.0Excellent
115Ste1115xFG…327zty4.71%derived0%149K100.0Excellent
1167nzTzRZzez…uYzt7A4.71%derived0%148K100.0Excellent
117AiBEt9kE8y…3zrLfu4.71%derived0%148K100.0Excellent
1188ebFZA8NPL…3sYhhs4.71%derived0%146K100.0Excellent
119SyndicAgdE…D9xeug4.71%derived0%145K100.0Excellent
1206gnbmed7kz…6WS6HU4.71%derived0%143K100.0Excellent
1214aRPyjsqqF…mroe2d4.71%derived0%143K100.0Excellent
122HwN6eoEe9N…MZmisp4.71%derived0%143K100.0Excellent
123Ee8dX3qtwr…iw23W94.71%derived0%141K100.0Excellent
124CTwsruptUc…SG213y4.71%derived0%139K100.0Excellent
1253rqEEEGjHR…eZ5Ltk4.71%derived0%137K100.0Excellent
126GkFT5nmcFV…wrnsgw4.71%derived0%136K100.0Excellent
1277Nu9ckgtjo…KMM9NB4.71%derived0%135K100.0Excellent
1282P9ZYA4vBo…gk6jRL4.71%derived0%135K100.0Excellent
12957i31UEyDg…arxt3f4.71%derived0%135K100.0Excellent
130RoYFUUD7QD…moy5S44.71%derived0%134K100.0Excellent
1318augxYLUge…wpnzyw4.71%derived0%134K100.0Excellent
132LimeA3gMLb…dmVU6E4.71%derived0%132K100.0Excellent
133HVXXmNKkmD…AktLrG4.71%derived0%132K100.0Excellent
134YuRBAsy9St…zYAMmQ4.71%derived0%132K100.0Excellent
135CjmXSapt1o…RscwYD4.71%derived0%132K100.0Excellent
1369PRr9k87Hj…BWXKdQ4.71%derived0%131K100.0Excellent
137mXv18ov8qC…K6fpNC4.71%derived0%129K100.0Excellent
138Av8EnYrPBn…yLnBfe4.71%derived0%129K100.0Excellent
1399q16BB7WGm…juM4k74.71%derived0%124K100.0Excellent
140nSGZ3tv2Uh…yw5JgM4.71%derived0%123K100.0Excellent
141cybi55ebub…W6vFkC4.71%derived5%122K100.0Excellent
142D4r6Rcua2L…bugvCG4.71%derived0%121K100.0Excellent
14338zm5bBgDa…juTq8W4.71%derived0%121K100.0Excellent
144CtvdyHYt8c…225uMW4.71%derived0%117K100.0Excellent
145EN5F2BU5ju…yMrvnW4.71%derived0%116K100.0Excellent
146N43JWBg42Z…BBNiFC4.71%derived5%115K100.0Excellent
147peNgUgnzs1…xVPAYx4.71%derived0%115K100.0Excellent
148EPFZFVrXuv…Cxpkcy4.71%derived0%114K100.0Excellent
14993Q99nhdKj…RkUkMn4.71%derived0%114K100.0Excellent
150CeJjdkRwfq…JBcQwC4.71%derived0%113K100.0Excellent
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