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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

251–300 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
251VQwCCSfW3o…Bvv2YH4.57%3%576K87.8Good
252GGX3BEoZDq…mVuZNS4.57%3%155K87.8Good
2535429ouKuzS…scqXoB4.56%3%10K87.7Good
2545MAGJ3zSht…7KpjcB4.56%3%277K87.7Good
2553ytgyJXpm3…z79gpJ4.56%derived3%1.01M87.6Good
256sfvTq7ojrE…SdRDAB4.56%derived5%90K87.6Good
257meshRrDTME…sw3o6Y4.56%5%110K87.6Good
258DP9SwUE9Wi…pt8GgZ4.56%3%267K87.6Good
2595zm9g3zgAP…LFwCKK4.56%5%160K86.9Good
260pSoLoZx55z…jbYgT24.54%4%2K85.3Good
261BULKzVM41W…xraf8b4.55%derived0%297K84.9Good
2622X5yarNUWG…2J1to14.53%4%520K84.9Good
2633B2mGaZoFw…1XWynU4.53%2%190K84.7Good
2647GkMBmtrTZ…mJD4We4.53%4%421K84.7Good
265Ey3DkEVbfB…jjkykf4.53%4%145K84.2Good
2663tzpLMWRkW…uo4gTk4.52%4%193K84.1Good
267FjYEr2UCeF…c7SLQL4.52%5%131K84.1Good
2686xWLi1TDSh…wgunS84.52%5%1.18M83.6Good
269AqyRvpjjSN…HcJ2o74.52%4%524K83.5Good
270AG1PsJMQcu…znYFKW4.52%4%84K83.5Good
271NLMSHTjmSi…Nmw5kH4.52%derived5%135K83.5Good
2723BeharBd3j…dXYSNw4.52%derived5%107K83.5Good
273A4hyMd3Fyv…AJ1to24.52%4%384K83.5Good
274huinBRP3mu…kQz5534.51%4%115K83.2Good
275ChorusmmK7…1EH15n4.51%8%1.62M82.9Good
276rapXHroUoG…YarvSC4.51%5%102K82.8Good
277MCFmmmXdzT…sCU5kx4.51%4%190K82.8Good
278simpRo1FrQ…hjXYJb4.51%5%180K82.8Good
279FACb6bbTDR…YAMv2o4.51%4%291K82.5Good
280Lua1fxRRHC…uF2WSb4.50%5%103K82.2Good
281SANDCxXBbQ…aS4mXU4.50%5%59K82.2Good
2821i1yPyh843…2KAs2i4.50%5%98K82.1Good
2838hAYbagNt7…ybjJsN4.50%5%188K82.0Good
284mint13XHZS…xeLB8f4.50%5%340K81.9Good
2853V2xaccDpF…3w1Bg74.50%4%145K81.9Good
286AwcMVMvmT1…s6dM4o4.52%4%199K81.9Good
287BR1aTt4ZZU…eSwUB84.50%5%94K81.8Good
288b1ueZK9bWT…XnkiqF4.50%5%107K81.6Good
28961QB1Evn9E…JJfEQk4.50%5%256K81.6Good
2908BwBBt23a6…2DxGvR4.49%3%245K81.3Good
291BPKAfGkkzF…EMNMCT4.49%5%168K81.1Good
2926qwYjs5vCS…1EHKsw4.49%5%142K81.0Good
293777idJ8gG2…aU8nN24.49%5%84K80.8Good
294bookoVmqw4…M7A5Lo4.49%5%138K80.8Good
2951ggyZGbYtE…pnszLT4.49%5%180K80.7Good
2969pBHfuE19q…du7Nx24.48%5%189K80.6Good
29774MzXStH8p…Sn37nE4.48%5%349K80.6Good
298EydLxzdWfD…CRUkJ44.48%5%136K80.6Good
299chopskqnud…ucAwfb4.48%5%119K80.6Good
300CpNnGGhgVA…7YgavX4.48%5%137K80.5Good
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