Staking on the Maintenance Chain Solana


With the Solana hype train heating up, I thought I would take another look at Solana this time and see how their staking system is working. I saw there are some interesting diesel pools available on platforms like Orca, but I wanted to see how the staking is working.

After buying a little Solana, I transfered it to my Solflare wallet and it moved over there pretty quickly. Withdrawing from the exchanges is not so cheap, but sending and receiving is usually very cheap on Solana, which is what makes it more attractive than ETH for example.

What I like about Solana, is that it is similar to Hive and Wax in regards to staking, although it works a little different and interestingly. I prefer to stake on these chains instead of a bridge or platform as they are usually getting hacked, have some security issues or they are giving out rugs.

With Solana, you stake to a validator node of your choice, but you still retain the ownership of the staked Solana, which is important in case a node goes down or something. It can all be done easily inside your wallet too. In Solaflare, you just click staking:

From there, you can click the stake button and it brings you up the options:

You can select your validator and then it gives you details of the expected APY, which basically fluctuates based on the current inflation, amount staked and the uptime and importantly for us, the commission fee of the validator that can have a big effect on how much return we get.

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A useful website that I found, gives you a list of the top validators and the fees they charge. It is called Solana Beach and can be helpful in choosing your validator. Of course high returns are important, but you also want a reliable validator and one that isn't going to keep adjusting fees etc.

Once you have found your validator that you are happy with from the list, you can type it in and click stake. It can take upto 3 days for your staked SOL to start earning rewards and it gets added on to your staked value.

Here you can see that I have staked to StakeHaus and it has a 0% fee which is pretty good. It is just outside the top 20, but should be ok. Once your staked SOL turns active in green, you start earning rewards. You can the expand the view and see your earnings easily enough.

It might sound good to earn between 7-8% on SOL, but the inflation is around 8% per year which is needed to cover the cheap transactions, so you are just standing still with your SOL here, so it could make more sense to put in a diesel pool with some higher returns. Of course, higher returns come with more risk though.

With your SOL staked, you are now ready to sit back and wait for the pump.. or dive.. depending on your point of view! 😅

Thanks for reading.

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I'm not sure how validators are rewarded on Solana, but I learned on other chains to be careful with validators that take no fee. How are they funded / how do they pay for infrastructure? What is their purpose for distributing all rewards? Generally, they have other means of funding and they just want higher influence on the respective chain.

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Thats a good point and something to consider with validators. I will monitor the situation closely in case they are unreliable.

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0% fee which is pretty good

I would say that really good, or is there any -1% fees options ;)

Waiting for a pump, it broke out on a daily bull flag, correction might be over.. And februar historicaly is a green month

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I didnt see any -1%, but will keep a look out 😂 I have a feeling SOL could pump hard! Feb is looking to beat January for sure!! Its gonna be pretty epic this bull run LOL

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Yea, hope history repeat :))

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That's pretty cool, I haven't been doing much with Solana lately. I'm going to have to go check that out. I have some just sitting in one of my wallets, it makes more sense to earn with it!

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Yeah, its good to put it to work staking or in the LPs!

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I have never staked these coins. But really this website take 0% of site stake and that's good. I would definitely do the stake

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Yeah, it is a much better deal to not pay any fees!

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I prefer to sit back and wait for the pump lol. I think it's a nice staking method, good way to diversify also. What's the unstaking period like?

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yeah, its great to have some NGU! The unstaking is 3 days, so pretty quick.

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It's indeed pretty quick and I prefer that. Good for capitalizing on relatively short term price movements.

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What other layer 2 token on Solana do you own?

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None so far, just some stables.

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I feel like SOL is going to be one of those I regret not buying like BNB. I was going to pick some up when it took that huge dump a short time ago but I didn't. I'm kind of kicking myself over it now.

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yeah, it seems to be eating ETHs lunch! I am late to the party, but am happy to have a bag at least.

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I'm still hoping that MATIC is able to recover and make a run with the bulls this next time.

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Thanks for the information, for the past few days I have been making extensive research on how to maximize opportunity crypto provide. I have been taping into hive saving opportunity in my little way.

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That sounds cool, I hope you will have a prosperous bull run. 😀

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Can I also stake using my phantom wallet?

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I havent used the phantom wallet, so couldnt say! sorry!

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Ugh, I only realized what staking, liquidity pools, swapping, etc. were after five years and slowly started to use them. It's too complicated for me to do anything else (apart from Iconomi hodl).
But articles like this are great because they describe similar activities on other chains and you are good at it.

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