Staking Solana helps secure the Solana blockchain and earns additional SOL as a reward. The Solana staking reward is approximately 6% annual percentage yield ([[APY]]) and staking rewards are paid out approximately every epoch 2 to 3 days. Solana network inflation is approximately 8% per year. There are four primary methods to stake your Solana - staking SOL through a centralized exchange, delegating your SOL to an existing network validator, "liquid staking" your SOL via a staking pool, or running your own network validator. Validators that provide staking infrastructure will charge a variable fee on rewards. The rewards after taking the fee into consideration can be calculated as follows If you delegate 100 SOL to a validator, the reward might be 6.3%: $ 100 \cdot 0.063 = 6.3 SOL $ The fee might be 7%: $ 6.3 \cdot 0.07 = 0.441SOL $ Therefore estimated balance after 1 year would be: $ 100 + 6.3 - 0.441 = 105.859 SOL $ Paid out every epoch would be: $ \frac{(105.859 - 100)}{\frac{365}{3}} = 0.048 SOL $ The APY specified is approximate and will change according to network conditions such as inflation and validator commission.