Solana staking currently brings you around 4.96 percent a year if your validator takes the usual commission of 5 percent. That figure appears in no advertisement; it follows from two quantities the network publishes itself: the issuance of new SOL currently stands at 3.59 percent a year, and 68.7 percent of all SOL are staked. Whoever splits the reward among fewer participants gets more per head, and that is exactly where the yield comes from.
This article takes you through the procedure and shows the figures that actually stood in the network on Sunday morning: 665 active validators, 25 of them delinquent, a median commission of 5 percent and an epoch currently lasting a good 25 hours. That epoch length determines how long you wait for the first reward and for a withdrawal. Where the price stands and which levels analysts name is set out in our Solana price prediction; here it is about the mechanics.
Solana staking in one sentence: delegate the stake, share the block reward
Solana secures itself with proof of stake. Anyone wanting to propose and confirm blocks needs voting weight, and voting weight arises from deposited SOL. ...
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