Secure the ledger. Earn SOL.
Decentralize the network by providing computing resources.
Current number of validators on mainnet
Current Superminority
Validators form the backbone of Solana’s network.
By processing transactions and participating in consensus, each validator helps make Solana the most censorship resistant and highest-performance blockchain network in the world.
Validator Rewards
Protocol Based Rewards
Issuances from a global, protocol-defined, inflation rate. These rewards are delivered on top of earnings from transaction fees.
Staking
Stakers are rewarded for helping to validate the ledger. They do this by delegating their stake to validator nodes. Those validators do the legwork of replaying the ledger and send votes to a per-node vote account to which stakers can delegate their stakes. The rest of the cluster uses those stake-weighted votes to select a block when forks arise.
Stake Pools
Stake Pools are a liquid staking solution that promote censorship resistance, decentralization, and the growth of DeFi on Solana.
Validating on Solana
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Go here for documentation related to all things Validator, from validator requirements, to troubleshooting.
Validators explorer
View the current list of validators, their ranking by stake amount, and information about commission below.
Validator Education
The Solana Validator Education is a 2 part series on important Solana validator concepts and the steps needed to get a new validator setup.
Delegation Program
Foundation Delegation participants are eligible to receive a delegation from the Solana Foundation.