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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

151–200 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
151bay3wXfJsu…WM5G1z4.71%derived5%113K100.0Excellent
1522UBhtRuyr9…KiRa9H4.71%derived5%112K100.0Excellent
153nebu15XQKG…Kc118w4.71%derived5%112K100.0Excellent
1542zykwzzo1p…TVd5Tq4.71%derived0%109K100.0Excellent
155mrgn2vUPsP…NYA9Ry4.71%derived0%109K100.0Excellent
1569dH6wfdJVg…BYXANK4.71%derived0%107K100.0Excellent
157BhNnboEZb3…eRTKGY4.71%derived0%107K100.0Excellent
1588nbE53mcKh…Sdtukr4.71%derived0%106K100.0Excellent
159MicoB9cA9R…U6Z2yz4.71%derived0%105K100.0Excellent
160Mwz8VgAEnP…nsTo5k4.71%derived0%104K100.0Excellent
161GQiWnDYrzH…MBiPEe4.71%derived5%103K100.0Excellent
162TopjgY7N1f…gAKhDG4.71%derived0%103K100.0Excellent
163G4GT8z4AKW…4GvWdU4.71%derived0%101K100.0Excellent
164ADjyeNzWd8…QcXjop4.71%derived0%100K100.0Excellent
165uEhHSnCXvW…hC54i34.71%derived0%100K100.0Excellent
1664JahMMrVRS…MttL1E4.71%derived0%99K100.0Excellent
167AWZhUiQjrj…i411hN4.71%derived0%99K100.0Excellent
168SWiz7QwnYP…cB2cov4.71%derived5%99K100.0Excellent
169HMWXfjaeSH…MXbDGH4.71%derived0%97K100.0Excellent
1703DaPk6TdeG…gYK8BV4.71%derived0%97K100.0Excellent
1715fSQdv4zsA…RJB9NE4.71%derived5%96K100.0Excellent
172BCJN2vZFAH…3mSWuh4.71%derived0%95K100.0Excellent
173vahMVcSS3v…1P7L424.71%derived0%94K100.0Excellent
174By8MseMKtZ…3ktrHt4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
175CpgSfd6QUo…fSbNEE4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
1762uxEHizFmm…xjt87m4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
177BxkAkLR2W3…st99KY4.71%derived0%92K100.0Excellent
178KTMkUG8WCw…HHbsNM4.71%derived0%91K100.0Excellent
179LitxAVo3Rn…PZjZwE4.71%derived0%90K100.0Excellent
1809ueKvL3WiL…ibx1Zq4.71%derived0%90K100.0Excellent
181nodeEgRVkb…jMfN1D4.71%derived0%86K100.0Excellent
1826xFDLX751L…PDbWoJ4.71%derived0%85K100.0Excellent
1835ysfTZ42VT…YKDs5d4.71%derived0%84K100.0Excellent
184BuonuQoAR7…zaJ97G4.71%derived4%84K100.0Excellent
185FphFJA451q…KxxQ1q4.71%derived5%83K100.0Excellent
1867PpXQgDb9e…qvaJXd4.71%derived0%83K100.0Excellent
187Fy7RCjDdFL…dUHf5o4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
1881Link6hB1N…U8PRDG4.71%derived5%81K100.0Excellent
1893CKKAoVi94…kSUofX4.71%derived0%81K100.0Excellent
1907HMHSdQkjD…KXcKt54.71%derived5%81K100.0Excellent
191DupN8puwoP…axyUG44.71%derived5%80K100.0Excellent
192FyLVPAKkgd…UnC8uA4.71%derived0%75K100.0Excellent
1937knvB4bbqH…LdRfkx4.71%derived0%74K100.0Excellent
194NoditgWLFb…M4EJpu4.71%derived0%72K100.0Excellent
195D1A4F2yh38…SSePKe4.71%derived0%70K100.0Excellent
1968aySXUFrqJ…BpKmHK4.71%derived0%66K100.0Excellent
197MargusJeV9…go8Tfj4.71%derived0%62K100.0Excellent
1989bkyxgYxRr…dH2Uvr4.71%derived0%61K100.0Excellent
199CTDGxTK789…YYqXxC4.71%derived5%60K100.0Excellent
2002icWF7Tvxy…qUij1B4.71%derived0%58K100.0Excellent
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