How much do Solana stakers earn?
Over the past week, stakers received roughly 59,038 SOL a day in issuance yield and 985 SOL a day in Jito tip yield — network-wide, across every delegated stake account. Since August 2023 the running total is 81.81M SOL.
Issuance is by far the larger share and moves slowly: it is minted on a fixed schedule that tapers about 15% a year, so the line drifts down while the amount of staked SOL pushes it back up. Jito yield is the volatile part — it tracks how much block space is worth on the day, and it spiked through the memecoin runs of late 2024 and early 2025 before settling.
Issuance yield and Jito tip yield
Issuance yield is your share of the SOL Solana mints each epoch and pays to stake accounts — the base return, and the reason staking exists. Jito tip yield is your share of what MEV searchers pay to get transaction bundles landed; it reaches you only if your validator runs the Jito client, which most of the network now does. Both arrive after the validator has taken its commission, which is exactly what the validator revenue chart plots. One methodology note that moves the figure a lot: validators charging 90% commission or more are counted as staking to themselves, so their commission lands here as staker yield rather than operator revenue. Leaving them out would understate what the network pays stakers by roughly a quarter.
What this means for your own stake
This chart is the whole network, not a rate. Two things decide what you actually keep: your validator's commission, and inflation. Network-wide the nominal staking yield runs at 5.52% while new SOL is minted at 3.73% — so the real yield is about 1.79%. That difference is what staking actually adds to your share of the supply; the rest only keeps you level with dilution. The staking rewards and APY guide shows how commission enters that, the staking calculator puts numbers on a real position, and the live validator ranking shows who takes what.
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Stake.Cake charges 0% commission, so none of the issuance and Jito yield above is taken on the way to you.
FAQ
What is the difference between staker revenue and validator revenue?
They are the two halves of the same split. Validator revenue is what the operator keeps as commission; staker revenue is what passes through to delegators. A 5% commission means the operator takes 5% of the issuance rewards and forwards 95% to you, which is why commission is the one number that decides your return.
Where does this data come from?
It is aggregated from on-chain Solana rewards — the inflation credited to stake accounts and the Jito tip distributions — summed network-wide each day and denominated in SOL. The most recent days are revised as epochs settle, so the newest point can read low until it is complete.