Everstake

Everstake is a staking company. It runs validators, the servers that confirm transactions on proof-of-stake blockchains. You point your tokens at one of its validators and earn rewards. Everstake keeps a share of those rewards as its fee. Your tokens never leave your own wallet.

The company began in 2018 and says it now works on more than 130 networks. On Solana it has run a validator since July 2020 and takes 7% of rewards. It is also the staking partner built into Trezor Suite, which is where many people first see its name.

In 2026 Everstake added Blockspace, a set of paid tools for Solana traders. Other validators criticised that business in September 2026.

How Everstake staking works: non-custodial delegation

Everstake staking is non-custodial. That means Everstake never holds your tokens. You keep your keys and lend only the right to earn rewards to a validator that Everstake runs. Its Solana staking page says: "Validators do not have control over users' funds."

On Solana, staking creates a stake account that your wallet owns. Rewards land at the end of each epoch, a period of two to three days. They are added to your staked balance, so they compound without any action from you. When you unstake, the SOL cools down until the next epoch starts. After that you can withdraw it.

The fee comes out of rewards, never out of the amount you staked. Say your stake earns 10 SOL in a year before fees. At 7%, Everstake keeps 0.7 SOL and you get 9.3 SOL.

Everstake has no token of its own. It is a private company, so staking with it earns no airdrop and no vote.

Everstake Solana staking: commission, minimum stake and vote account

Everstake's Solana validator charges a 7% commission and takes new stakes from 1 SOL, per its own staking page. Its vote account is 9QU2QSxhb24FUX3Tu2FpczXjpK3VYrvRudywSZaM29mF. Check that address in your wallet before you stake.

You do not stake on Everstake's website. You choose Everstake from the validator list in a wallet that supports staking. Everstake names Phantom CASH$0.9990.0%, Solflare, Exodus, Backpack, Trust Wallet and Trezor Suite Mobile among them.

Everstake put its Solana stake at about 7.5 million SOL in a post last updated in September 2026. Stake, yield and uptime change every epoch. See the live figures on Everstake's validator page on Solana Compass.

Everstake's MEV commission and what it means for rewards

Solana validators can earn extra income from MEV tips. These are payments traders add to get their trades placed well in a block. Validators that run Jito JTO$0.472-3.6% software set a second fee on those tips, apart from the main commission.

QuickNode's validator directory showed Everstake's Jito MEV commission at 100% when we checked on 8 October 2026. At that level the validator keeps every tip and stakers get none. The 7% fee on standard rewards is separate and has not changed.

A Trezor forum thread dated 8 September 2026 said rewards from Everstake fell about 14% from epoch 1024, and linked the drop to this setting. We found no Everstake post that explains the change. If tip income matters to you, check this setting on any validator before you stake.

Trezor Suite staking with Everstake: SOL and ETH from a hardware wallet

Everstake is the staking provider inside Trezor Suite, the app for Trezor hardware wallets. You stake from the app, your keys stay on the device, and your stake goes to Everstake's validators. If the Everstake name has shown up in your Trezor next to a staked balance, this is why.

For Solana, Everstake said on 2 October 2026 that you can stake SOL in Trezor Suite Mobile from 1 SOL. For Ethereum, the minimum through Trezor is 0.01 ETH. Everstake said on 25 September 2026 that more than 300,000 ETH was staked with it through Trezor.

The two networks work in different ways. Solana staking through Trezor is plain delegation from your own stake account. Ethereum has no built-in delegation, so ETH staking with Everstake goes through a pooling smart contract. That adds a layer of code risk on the Ethereum side, which the safety section below covers.

Blockspace by Everstake: ShredStream, SWQoS and the private orderflow debate

Blockspace is the part of Everstake that sells speed to Solana traders. Customers pay for faster data and faster delivery of their trades. The service runs on Everstake's own validator and on other validators that install its software. Everstake's docs call it "Everstake's Solana MEV stack."

The Blockspace site lists four products:

• ShredStream sends out shreds, the small pieces a Solana block is cut into, before the whole block has spread. The Connect tier is $500 a month for one region. Ultra is $1,100 a month for six.
• Direct Shreds gives one buyer a private line for $4,000 a month per IP address.
• SWQoS stands for stake-weighted quality of service. It sends a customer's trades through Everstake's stake, so they are more likely to reach the validator building the next block. The price depends on usage.
• Relayer and TPU access lets approved customers send bundles of trades straight to validators. They can pay only when a bundle makes money.

Other validators can join and earn a share of the revenue. The site says each split is set in a private agreement. Everstake first sold ShredStream and SWQoS in September 2025. It grouped them under the Blockspace name in a June 2026 launch post.

The September 2026 Corvus Labs investigation

On 14 September 2026 Andrei Vacariu published an investigation into Blockspace. Vacariu founded Corvus Labs and runs a Solana validator. He alleged that validators in the programme passed trade flow to private searchers, the firms that hunt for MEV, and took a share of the profit. He argued that searchers could see orders early enough to front-run or sandwich them.

Wu Blockchain reported that Blockspace claimed 39 connected validators with about 56.6 million SOL. Vacariu traced roughly 17 million SOL to validators he could confirm were involved. We covered the findings in our Blockspace investigation story.

Chainflow's summary of that week's validator talks recorded Everstake's reply. Everstake said its docs had held an error that was now fixed, and that its terms ban malicious or toxic MEV. Older copies of the docs had used the word sandwiching to describe what searchers do. Operators who tried the service called it a backrunning product and said they were told no sandwiching would take place. Chainflow also noted that the old wording did not prove any partner had run sandwich attacks.

Validator-as-a-Service, certifications and insurance for institutions

For large clients, Everstake sells the same validator work with a contract around it. The main product is Validator-as-a-Service, or VaaS. Everstake runs a private validator for a custodian, exchange or fund, under the client's brand if wanted and with agreed service levels. The Solana version launched in September 2025 with a 50,000 SOL minimum.

Everstake's institutional staking page lists links to custody firms such as Fireblocks, BitGo, Anchorage Digital, Copper and Coinbase Custody. The company says it meets SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF, plus the GDPR and CCPA privacy rules. It names Prescient Security as the auditor for SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

On 7 October 2026 Everstake announced an insurance programme for these clients. It has three parts: tech errors and omissions, directors and officers cover, and commercial crime cover. Read the scope with care. The policies protect Everstake against claims made on the company. The post says client assets "are not the subject of Everstake's insurance." Slashing is dealt with in contract terms instead. Everstake did not name the insurers or the limits.

Everstake also runs an MCP server, which lets AI tools read staking data from the networks it supports.

Is Everstake safe and legit? Risks to weigh

Everstake is a real company that has traded since 2018 and names its leaders in public. It reports no material slashing events on major networks and 99.98% uptime. Both claims come from Everstake itself. Whether it is safe depends on which risk you mean.

Custody risk on Solana is low. Your SOL sits in a stake account that your wallet controls, and Everstake cannot move it. Everstake's Solana page also notes that Solana has no slashing in force. A validator fault costs you missed rewards, not your stake.

Other risks remain:

• Reward risk. A validator can change its fees. The 100% MEV commission above cuts what stakers earn without touching the 7% headline fee.
• Code risk on Ethereum. Everstake's pooled ETH staking uses smart contracts that hold deposits. Trail of Bits reviewed them between November 2024 and January 2025 and raised seven issues. Everstake fixed five in full and one in part. That audit covers the Ethereum pool only. On Solana no Everstake contract holds your funds.
• Concentration. Everstake runs a large Solana validator, and Blockspace ties many more to it. A network is weaker when a lot of stake depends on one operator, even if you never feel the cost yourself.
• Conduct. The Blockspace debate is not settled. Everstake says its terms ban toxic MEV, but an outside staker cannot check how that rule is enforced.
• Phishing. Everstake moved from everstake.one to everstake.com on 25 August 2026. The old address redirects. Everstake says it will never ask for a seed phrase or a token move because of the change. Treat any message that does as a scam.

A SOC 2 report shows how a company runs its systems. It is no promise about your stake, and nor is the new insurance.

Who should stake with Everstake, and who should look elsewhere

Everstake suits people who want staking to be one button in a wallet they already trust. If you hold SOL or ETH on a Trezor and want rewards without sending coins to an exchange, Everstake is the built-in route. It also suits funds and custodians that need a vendor with audited controls, custody links and a signed contract.

It is a weaker fit if yield is your main goal. Many Solana validators charge less than 7%. Stakers also get no MEV tips while the MEV commission sits at 100%. If you want to help spread stake to smaller operators, pick a validator outside the largest group.

Traders are a separate audience. Blockspace is built for firms that need fast data and priority delivery. It has no use for someone staking savings.

Everstake vs Lido, Rocket Pool and other Solana validators

Everstake runs validators. Lido and Rocket Pool are liquid staking protocols on Ethereum. The difference is what you hold after you stake. Liquid staking hands you a token that stands for your stake, which you can trade or use in DeFi. With Everstake you hold a staked position. That is simpler, but the funds stay locked until you unstake. On Solana, Everstake offers plain delegation and no liquid staking token.

Against other Solana validators, four things matter: the commission, the MEV commission, uptime, and how much stake the operator already holds. You can compare validators by commission and uptime on Solana Compass.

One disclosure: Solana Compass runs its own Solana validator and a liquid staking token, so we compete with Everstake for stake. The details are on our staking page.

Where is Everstake based? Company, team and history

Everstake's legal home is the Cayman Islands. Its operating company is Everstake Validation Services LLC, with a registered office in George Town, Grand Cayman, per its company information page. Sergii Vasylchuk, a blockchain engineer, founded Everstake in 2018 and is its chief executive. The about page describes a team of about 100 people, three quarters of them engineers.

Everstake reports more than $7 billion in staked value and more than 1.6 million delegators across all its networks. Both are company figures.

Key dates:

• 2018: Everstake is founded.
• July 2020: its Solana validator goes live.
• September 2025: ShredStream, SWQoS and Validator-as-a-Service launch for Solana.
• June 2026: Blockspace launches.
• August 2026: the website moves to everstake.com.
• September 2026: the Corvus Labs investigation into Blockspace is published.
• October 2026: the insurance programme for institutions is announced.