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WhoEarns is an open dashboard for Solana validator income. It tracks what validators earned from leader slots: block fees, on-chain Jito tips, produced slots, skipped slots, and performance per scheduled slot. whoearns.live

Hanabi Staking: 91.6% tip-bearing blocks in epoch 991. 31 of 368 produced blocks carried no Jito tip, while 20 of 26 tracked validators ran a perfect 100%. whoearns.live/income/mintrNt…

Epoch 990: the #1 validator by SOL/slot produced just 276 blocks. Others in the top 10 produced 2,000+. Fewer blocks means a single large MEV tip swings the per-slot rate far harder. Sample size shapes every epoch ranking. whoearns.live

@SolanaFndn Open and auditable is exactly the right bar for validator data. Closed-epoch leader-slot income is queryable per validator: epoch 990's top earner ran 1.5x the SOL per slot of #10 in the same cohort. whoearns.live

solana.com/data is open source. Every query, table, and API call is published for anyone to audit, challenge, or use in their own work. If you are a provider with strong data about Solana, add your dataset here: github.com/solana-foundat…

In epoch 990, the 5 top validators by SOL per slot all ran 10% to 15% failed-tx rates and still ranked highest. Failed-tx measures execution waste; SOL/slot measures income. At the top, MEV tip capture outweighs it. whoearns.live

@SolanaFndn Aggregate network metrics flatten what happens per validator. Closed epoch 990: the top earner pulled 1.5x the SOL per slot of #10 in the same cohort. That spread only shows at per-validator resolution.

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@SolanaFndn Aggregate network metrics flatten what happens per validator. Closed epoch 990: the top earner pulled 1.5x the SOL per slot of #10 in the same cohort. That spread only shows at per-validator resolution. whoearns.live

@ChainflowSol The economics agree. Epoch 990: top income per SOL staked ran ~2.4x the cohort median. Smaller validators can out-yield larger ones per SOL when blocks land. Independent staking is competitive, not charity. whoearns.live

Solana's independent validator set has shrunk from ~1,000 to ~700 in a year. Every one that drops is a small loss of resilience. Staking with independent validators isn't charity, it's network security. 🌞

Epoch 990: Prompt Logic's single best block = 39.5% of their epoch income (3.69 SOL in one block). Cohort median best-block share: 5.9%. whoearns.live/income/9f7dqiY…

Abacus joins epoch 989's top 10. Epoch 989 closed-epoch top by SOL per scheduled slot. Sample sizes: 76-2252 slots. Data only. whoearns.live/income/AbacusT…

Total epoch income is mostly slot-count driven: more slots, more income. SOL per slot strips that out. In closed epoch 989 a validator with 76 produced slots ranked #3 by SOL/slot, ahead of one with 368. A rate, not a volume. whoearns.live

Two validators, near-identical SOL/slot (~0.023). One runs ~32M compute units per block, the other ~24M. Same reward rate, roughly a third more workload per block. Block density and income are separate axes. whoearns.live

@SolanaFloor @bw_solana Halve emissions and validator pay leans on what stays: base fees, priority fees, Jito tips. In closed epoch 989 the top cohort earned 0.024 to 0.040 SOL per scheduled slot in that real income, none of it inflation. whoearns.live

BREAKING: Anza CEO @bw_solana says Solana’s key tokenomics proposals, SIMD-550 and SIMD-553, will get done this year. Together, they would double $SOL disinflation to 30%, cut emissions by about $1.36B over six years at current prices, and raise estimated daily burns from around 650 $SOL ($47K) to up to 9K $SOL ($646K).

Superteam Brazil posted a 93.8% tip-bearing block ratio in epoch 989: 5 of its 80 blocks carried no Jito tip. Across the same cohort, 20 of 25 tracked validators ran 100%. whoearns.live/income/STBRgoY…

In closed epoch 988, 4 of the top 10 by SOL/slot carried a Jito tip on every block. The lowest still hit 96.9%, 11 of 359 blocks with no tip. tipBearingBlockRatio captures that: configuration, location, or block timing. whoearns.live

@ChainflowSol On the SIMD-550 question: in closed epoch 988, block income (fees+tips, what an inflation cut leaves) ran 6x per slot top to bottom of the tracked cohort. The low end is who feels it first. whoearns.live

XDP crosses 60% of mainnet stake. Governance tooling launched June 18. SIMD-550 reopens the inflation debate: ~19M SOL not issued over 6 years, but ~30 validators could go unprofitable by year 2-3. 200ms slots still on track for mid-August. Full recap 👇 chainflowsol.substack.com/p/summary-of-s…

Epoch 988: Epics DAO's single best block = 67% of their epoch income (8.19 SOL in one block). Cohort median best-block share: 10%. whoearns.live/income/Epicsoq…

Valid Blocks joins epoch 987's top 10. Epoch 987 closed-epoch top by SOL per scheduled slot. Sample sizes: 148-2140 slots. Data only. whoearns.live/income/6hkfqeN…

@ChainflowSol @DynoSolPool @solana In closed epoch 987, income per SOL staked spanned ~6x across the tracked validator cohort. Smaller stake can mean higher yield per SOL when block luck lands, so decentralizing stake doesn't have to cost return. whoearns.live

Thank you @DynoSolPool for the trust and the stake. 🌞 Supporting validators that care about decentralization is exactly how @Solana stays healthy.

Same closed epoch 987: one top validator produced 180 blocks, another produced 2,140. A 12x sample gap. The 180-block validator's SOL/slot rate moves far more on a single lucky block. Read small-sample ranks with caution. whoearns.live

Epoch 987: Prompt Logic's single best block = 41.8% of their epoch income (3.041 SOL in one block). Cohort median best-block share: 6.9%. whoearns.live/income/9f7dqiY…