Staking

Docs

• Staking in Solana
• Staking FAQ
• Stake Accounts
• Stake Pool Docs
• SF Stake Pools

Notes

• The delegation "warming up" or "cooling down" period lasts until the end of current Epoch.
• Only up to 25% of global stake can change state per an Epoch.
• Staking reward percentage is derived by inflation rate, Validator uptime and total staked number by the inflation rate. As of 02/10/24 is was 5.49% for Epoch 572.
• Liquid Staking allows to use the Liquid Stake Tokens(LST) received for staked SOL for investing or trading and keep earning rewards on staked SOL.

Stake Accounts

The Stake Account info:

• Stake account types:
  • Account address - identifies an account
  • Stake authority - delegating stake, managing stake accounts
  • Withdraw authority - withdrawing undelegated stake, managing stake authority
• Lookup authority - manages the stake account lookups
• Stake and withdraw authority could be the same and can be assigned to multiple stake accounts.
• Stake account is destroyed when it's balanced becomes 0 SOL.
• The SF stake delegation is managed by the ??? bot.

Stake pools

The Stake pools info:

• Allow to deposit SOL in exchange of staking SPL tokens and earn rewards w/o managing stakes directly.
• Stake pools operation
• It takes around 1 SOL to create stake account on a validator.
• The Stake pool fees:
  • There are stake and SOL deposit/withdraw fees paid by users.
• It is possible to run the Single Validator stake pool.

Tools

• SolFlare - Solana recommended wallet that supports staking.
• To see the latest inflation rate: solana inflation
• Current Epoch info: solana epoch-info