Validator Rewards

SIMD-0550

SIMD-0550 and SIMD-0553: What They Do to Validator Economics

Two proposals heading to an on-chain vote change how much SOL exists. Almost every writeup has been about the price. Validators earn the issuance one of them cuts, and the fee rebuild in the other one does something to operator revenue that most coverage has backwards.

Solana

Sell Your Future Staking Rewards: Speedstake Is Live on Phase Validators

Staking rewards have always worked one way: you wait. As of today, Phase stakers have a second option: sell the rewards your stake will earn and get the SOL now, while the stake itself stays put. It's called Speedstake, built by Pye, and it's live across