Staking Rewards

Staking Rewards is an independent data and ratings platform for staking and on-chain yield. It tracks reward rates and staking metrics across more than 120 proof-of-stake assets, including Solana, and grades staking providers and DeFi protocols on an AAA-to-D risk scale.

Started as a site for comparing staking yields, Staking Rewards now pitches itself mainly to institutions. Its homepage calls it "the independent rating platform for institutional staking & on-chain yield," with ratings built around "downside risk, not headline yield." Retail users still use the public asset pages and calculators. Exchanges, custodians, wallets and asset managers pay for its data feeds and ratings.

What it does

Staking Rewards has three main products, all built on the same dataset:

• Staking data. Each asset gets a page with its reward rate, staking ratio, total staked, staking market cap, inflation rate, active validators, staker count and a benchmark commission. The pages also have a staking calculator and a list of rated providers.
• Provider ratings. The Verified Staking Provider (VSP) programme rates validator and staking-infrastructure operators on the same scale. The SR Rating methodology scores three areas: security setup, reliability and business operations. A provider rated AAA, AA or A meets the platform's verification criteria. The documentation says ratings are a reference point, not the only thing to decide on. It also encourages stakers to spread their stake across providers, including smaller ones, to support decentralisation.
• DeFi and yield-strategy ratings. Staking Rewards also rates DeFi protocols and yield strategies. These reviews cover smart-contract design, liquidity and governance. The goal is to put validators and DeFi strategies on one scale that can be compared.

According to its about page, the platform covers 120+ assets and 90+ verified providers. It says it has had more than 4 million unique users and that 12,000+ institutional allocators subscribe to its research.

Data API

The Staking Data API comes in two parts:

• a GraphQL Staking Data API for querying assets, providers, validators, reward options and metrics, with filtering and sorting
• a REST Ratings API that serves infrastructure and DeFi ratings through simple GET endpoints

Both APIs use the same keys and credit-based billing. According to the product page, data refreshes several times a day and most metrics have timestamps, so historical lookups are possible. Paid plans are billed annually. Standard costs €166 per month for 1.5 million credits, and Professional costs €666 per month for 50 million credits. Enterprise pricing is custom. The page names Kraken, Coinbase, Binance and Nansen as clients. Typical users are wallets that show APY and risk information, yield aggregators that need continuous data feeds, and allocators that use the ratings for due diligence.

Solana coverage

The Solana asset page covers SOL's reward rate, staking ratio, total staked, inflation rate, validator count, staker count and benchmark commission. It also lists verified providers with their commissions and SR Ratings, and shows Nakamoto coefficient and decentralisation metrics. The page links to liquid staking tokens such as mSOL, JitoSOL and bSOL.

The team also posts Solana research on its X account. In September 2026 it said 10 providers operate 24% of all staked SOL. The 66 named providers it tracks together account for 34%. Another post noted that Solana's staking yield fell from 7.27% to 5.35% over the past year under the existing disinflation schedule. The post then covered the SGP-0002 governance vote to raise the disinflation rate from 15% to 30%. The same account publishes weekly net staking flows across chains. For the week to September 20, 2026, it reported $375.8M of net SOL inflows, second only to Ethereum.

Team and history

Staking Rewards was founded by brothers Mirko Schmiedl (CEO) and Jannik Schmiedl (CTO). Its about page gives 2018 as the founding year and St. Gallen, Switzerland, as its base. It lists a team of about 15 people in Europe. Forbes dates the company's start to 2017. Forbes also says it is backed by crypto asset managers including CoinShares and Galaxy Digital and made more than $1 million in revenue in 2022. Over time the company added the VSP programme, institutional ratings and a conference series. That series began as the Staking Summit and later became the Digital Asset Yield Summit.

On July 20, 2026, institutional crypto data firm [[PROJECT:702]] announced that it had bought the Staking Rewards data and platform business from Finrate AG. Terms were not disclosed. Finrate AG kept the Digital Asset Yield Summit and Looping Collective businesses. The Tie took over the Staking Rewards platform and data products. The announcement said Staking Rewards would stay an independent, neutral third-party data platform. Its datasets are being added to The Tie Terminal and The Tie's data APIs. In return, The Tie's news, market intelligence and on-chain analytics are coming to Staking Rewards. The X account now uses the name "Staking Rewards by The Tie".

Place in the Solana ecosystem

Staking Rewards is not a Solana protocol and runs no on-chain programs. It is a data and ratings service that covers Solana alongside many other proof-of-stake networks. For SOL holders and institutions, it offers a way to compare Solana's staking economics with other chains and to check validator operators against a standard due-diligence framework. Validators and staking providers can apply for its verification and ratings. Wallets and platforms can pull its yield and risk data into their own products through the API.