Solana Staking at 74.6 Percent, 18 Validators Hold the Blocking Minority: What You Can Do Now

The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency investments carry a high degree of risk. Always conduct your own research.Of the circulating SOL, 438.97 million units are delegated, which is 74.6 percent. Our own query of the Solana nodes shows how few validators tip the balance and what is left of the yield.Of the roughly 588.70 million Solana in circulation, 438.97 million sit in a delegation. That is 74.6 percent, and at the price of $110.20 on Friday midday it corresponds to a locked value of around $48.4 billion. The figure comes from our own query of the Solana mainnet in epoch 1052, not from a provider's disclosure. It answers three questions an investor can settle today: what a delegation actually yields, how long the money is tied up, and how many validators really decide over the network you entrust your SOL to. How Much SOL Is Really Locked Today Active stake is the sum of all SOL assigned to validator vote accounts. A query of the getVoteAccounts method on a Solana node returns it directly, without going through a data provider. On Friday midday the figure stood at 438,973,557 SOL, spre...