Stake. Earn. Keep. Solana staking with 0% fees and top APY

Compare commission, uptime, skip rate and MEV sharing across many epochs — our guide on how to choose the best Solana validator walks through every check, and our live ranking of the best Solana validators applies them for you.

Solana is secured by validators that produce and vote on blocks. Delegating lends your SOL's voting weight to a validator like us, and your SOL never leaves your wallet's control. In return you earn a share of the protocol rewards for helping secure the network. New to it all? Start with how to stake Solana.

Zero. We take 0% commission on inflation (staking) rewards and 0% on MEV rewards, so the whole reward reaches you.

Currently around 5.1% APY. Rewards are paid every epoch (~26 hours) and, with native staking, automatically restaked so they compound. Your exact yield moves with total network stake and validator participation.

It stays yours the entire time. Staking is non-custodial: delegating only assigns your stake's voting weight to us. Stake.Cake can never move, spend or withdraw your SOL. Only your wallet can.

Not to us, and not to a bad validator. Solana doesn't currently slash stake for ordinary validator downtime, so a poorly run validator costs you reduced rewards, not your principal. If we stopped operating, your SOL would stay in a stake account only your wallet controls; it would stop earning, and you would unstake or move it to another validator. The real risk is the SOL price itself.

No lock-up. Unstake whenever you like; the SOL can be withdrawn once the current epoch ends, at most ~26 hours later. Liquid staking tokens such as JSOL and vSOL can be swapped back to SOL at any time. How to unstake has the steps.

Solana requires at least 1 SOL per stake account. The account also holds a small rent reserve, returned when you close it. Stake.Cake adds no minimum of its own.

They're liquid staking tokens (LSTs). When you stake through JPool or The Vault (pools that delegate to Stake.Cake), you receive a token that represents your staked SOL and keeps earning rewards while you use it across Solana DeFi. Redeem it for SOL whenever you want.

Usually within two epochs — 26 to 52 hours. Your stake activates at the next epoch boundary, earns through the epoch that follows, and that reward is credited at the boundary after it. The wait happens once; from then on rewards arrive every epoch.

Yes. Connect the Ledger through Phantom or Solflare and delegate as usual — the steps are identical, you just confirm on the device. Your keys never leave the hardware wallet, and the stake account stays under its control.

That depends on where you live, and this isn't tax advice. In most jurisdictions staking rewards count as income at the moment you receive them, with a separate capital-gains event when you later sell. Native rewards land every epoch and compound, so keep a record per epoch — the SOL price at the moment of receipt is usually the figure that matters.