Solana Staking Calculator

When you delegate, you're assigning your SOL's voting weight to a validator without transferring ownership. The validator uses this weight to participate in consensus and earn rewards on your behalf. Your tokens never leave your wallet—you maintain full custody and can redelegate or withdraw at any time.

Rewards flow from two streams: protocol inflation (new SOL minted each epoch) and MEV distributions (tips from transaction ordering). Validators running Jito clients share MEV proceeds with delegators, which can add 0.5-1.5% to your effective yield depending on network activity.

Solana operates in ~2-3 day cycles called epochs. At each boundary, the network tallies votes, distributes rewards, and activates any pending stake changes. New delegations become active at the start of the next epoch, so timing your stake can affect when you begin earning.

Solana doesn't have slashing penalties, so your principal is safe from validator misbehavior. However, delegating to a poorly performing validator means missed rewards—if they're offline or skip blocks, you earn less. Choose validators with consistent uptime and low skip rates.

Commission is the validator's cut before rewards reach you. A 5% commission means 95% of generated rewards go to delegators. But commission isn't everything—a 0% commission validator with poor performance may yield less than a 5% commission validator with excellent block production.

Connect any Solana wallet on our staking page and enter your amount—we handle the rest. Alternatively, search "OrbitFlare" in your wallet's native staking interface or paste our vote account directly. Your stake activates at the next epoch boundary and rewards begin accumulating automatically.

The calculator combines the network inflation rate, the share of total SOL that is staked, the validator's commission and its recent performance (skip rate and vote credits), plus estimated MEV distributions for validators running the Jito client. Rewards compound each epoch, so the displayed APY assumes you leave rewards staked.

Once per epoch, roughly every two to three days. Rewards are credited to your stake account automatically at the epoch boundary and begin earning themselves from the next epoch, which is where the compounding in the calculator comes from.

It is an estimate built from current on-chain inputs: inflation, staked supply, commission and validator performance. Those inputs move every epoch, so treat the result as a projection rather than a guarantee. The validator comparison is the most useful part: the relative ranking holds even when the absolute rate drifts.

Native staking keeps custody in your wallet, has no protocol risk beyond the validator you pick, and is what this calculator models. Liquid staking gives you a tradeable token in exchange for a fee and smart-contract exposure. If you do not need the liquidity, native staking with a well-run validator usually keeps more of the yield.