Staking means delegating SOL tokens to a validator, which increases validator’s voting weight in Solana Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism. Staking helps to secure the network and improve decentralization. Based on Solana tokens supply and inflation models along with Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism delegator earns Staking Rewards.

When you delegate your tokens to a validator you still control your assets, your tokens are safe, validator has no control over your SOL, you can unstake or redelegate them by the end of the epoch or using instant unstaking providers. This makes SOL staking easy, safe and profitable. Hold, stake and grow your SOL, don't let them lay unused!

Solana staking rewards are the incentives that participants can earn for staking their SOL tokens and contributing to the security and stability of the network. Staking rewards are part of the Solana protocol’s inflation rate, comes automatically every epoch to your stake account. Rewards are issued once per epoch and are deposited into the stake account that earned them. Stake rewards are automatically re-delegated as active stake.

Validators charge a fee on inflationary rewards earned by the delegators’ stake accounts in exchange for their services in securing the blockchain and processing transactions. Each time rewards are issued, the commission is deposited in the validator’s account and the remaining rewards are deposited in stake accounts that are delegated to that validator, proportionally to the amount of actively delegated stake in each account. Consensus Validator has 0% fee and it means you get 100% of Staking rewards if you stake to us.

You can stake SOL by moving your tokens into a wallet that supports staking. The wallet provides steps to create a stake account and do the delegation. For example, if you use solflare.com/staking click on stake button, choose amount of tokens to stake, choose validator, for instance put Consensus in the search or put vote account HFLsfstZkJeWDgVEA5fmXeea876Ad9f1VxrbXk386bBY to make sure you choose right validator, click stake button and confirm delegation transaction. You will see created staking account and staking rewards per each epoch.