How MEV Quietly Adds 1.2% to Your Staking Yield

Inflation gets all the attention, but MEV has become a meaningful component of Solana staking yield. Validators capturing priority fees and block-engine bundles pass a large share back to delegators.

Across the last 90 days, MEV added an average of 1.2 percentage points to annualized yields for validators connected to major block engines.

Not all validators capture equally

The gap between top-quartile and bottom-quartile MEV capture exceeds 150bps annually — making validator selection more consequential than most dashboards suggest.

Our analytics surface per-validator MEV efficiency so delegators can see true expected yield, not just commission-adjusted inflation share.