Harvest & compound your Solana MEV rewards
Your stake has already earned Jito MEV tips — and they are sitting unclaimed inside your stake accounts as liquid SOL, earning nothing. This tool finds that unclaimed MEV and withdraws it, without unstaking or touching your delegation, then optionally compounds it straight into compassSOL so it goes back to earning.
- Find the unclaimed MEV sitting across all your stake accounts in seconds
- Withdraw the excess without touching your delegation — no unstaking, no cooldown
- Compound it into compassSOL so it starts earning again immediately
- Or just withdraw it to your wallet as plain SOL
- See which validators earn their stakers the most MEV
- Non-custodial: you sign every transaction, principal is never touched
Why your stake account balance is higher than what you delegated
The extra SOL is unclaimed MEV: Jito tips land in your stake account as liquid lamports on top of your delegation and, unlike inflation rewards, are never automatically re-staked.
When you delegate to a validator, your stake account records the amount you delegated plus a small rent-exempt reserve. Inflation rewards each epoch grow the delegated portion and compound on their own. MEV tips are different: Jito pays them to the account as ordinary spare balance that is not part of the delegation, so they accumulate as free, withdrawable SOL and simply wait. A stake account that reads higher than the number you delegated is showing you exactly that unharvested MEV.
What Jito MEV tips are, and why native stakers claim them manually
Jito MEV tips are payments from searchers for profitable transaction ordering, shared with a validator and its stakers — liquid staking tokens auto-compound them, but native stake accounts leave them for you to withdraw.
MEV, or maximal extractable value, is the profit available from ordering transactions within a block. On Solana, searchers bid for that ordering through Jito and pay tips, which flow to the block-producing validator and are shared with its stakers. If you hold a liquid staking token like JitoSOL, the pool sweeps and re-stakes those tips for you, so the token quietly appreciates. If you stake natively, nobody does that on your behalf: the tips pile up as loose lamports in your stake account until you claim them yourself, which is what this tool is for.
Withdraw and restake your MEV in one click
Harvesting withdraws only the liquid excess — never your delegated principal — so the account stays active with no cooldown, and compounding deposits that SOL straight into compassSOL in the same signed batch.
The withdraw amount is calculated precisely: your account balance minus the delegated stake minus the rent-exempt reserve. That leaves the delegation and the account fully intact, which is why there is no unstaking wait. From there you have two paths. Withdraw to wallet returns the MEV as plain SOL. Compound into compassSOL routes it, in the same transaction, into the Compass liquid staking token so it immediately goes back to earning staking yield plus future MEV — turning a one-off sweep into ongoing compounding.
Which validators earn stakers the most MEV
The validators below returned the highest MEV APY to their stakers over the most recent epoch we measured, computed per stake account from on-chain rewards — not self-reported.
How much MEV reaches you depends heavily on which validator you delegate to: block production share, Jito adoption, and how the validator shares tips all move the number. We compute each validator’s MEV APY directly from the rewards landing in real stake accounts, so this ranks who actually pays stakers the most, separate from inflation.
How much MEV are you missing?
MEV now makes up roughly 20 to 25 percent of a Solana staker’s total rewards, and for native stakers that entire slice sits uncompounded until it is harvested.
A quarter of your staking yield arriving as un-reinvested cash is a real drag over time. Inflation rewards compound automatically epoch after epoch; MEV tips do not, so every epoch they sit idle is compounding you never earn. The longer a native stake account runs untouched, the wider the gap grows between what it made and what it could have made had the MEV been swept and re-staked. Harvesting closes that gap and, if you compound, restarts the clock on it.
Jito MEV vs JitoSOL vs Marinade
Jito MEV is the raw tip revenue; JitoSOL is a liquid staking token that auto-compounds it; Marinade auto-compounds too but only for mSOL — native staking captures the same MEV and leaves the compounding to you.
All three routes earn MEV, and the difference is who does the compounding. JitoSOL and mSOL bake tip re-staking into the token, so you never touch it but you also give up direct control of your validator choice and pay the pool’s terms. Native staking lets you pick your validator and keep full custody of the stake account, at the cost of having to sweep and re-stake the MEV yourself. This tool gives native stakers the best of both: keep your own stake account, and get the one-click auto-compounding that liquid tokens enjoy — into compassSOL when you want the liquid form.
Risks & limits
Harvesting is non-custodial and only ever moves the liquid excess, but a few limits are worth knowing before you sign.
- Locked stake is skipped. Any stake account whose lockup is still in force is excluded, because the network would reject the withdrawal. Expired lockups don’t count — once the lockup date and epoch have passed, the account is harvestable like any other.
- Dust is skipped. Excess worth less than it costs to move is left in place rather than harvested at a loss.
- Principal is never touched. Only the balance above your delegated stake and rent reserve is withdrawn; your delegation stays active.
- You sign everything. The tool builds the transactions; your wallet approves them. Nothing is custodial.
- Compounding carries LST terms. Depositing into compassSOL means holding a liquid staking token whose value tracks the pool; it is a staking position, not idle SOL.
- Batch size is capped. Harvests are split into batches of a handful of stake accounts per transaction to stay within Solana’s transaction size and compute limits.
Solana MEV rewards: frequently asked questions
Why is my stake account balance higher than what I delegated?
The extra SOL is unclaimed MEV. Jito tips are paid to your stake account as liquid lamports on top of your delegation and, unlike inflation rewards, are never automatically re-staked. They stay as withdrawable balance until you sweep them out.
What are Jito MEV tips, and why claim them manually?
Jito MEV tips are searcher payments for profitable transaction ordering, shared with a validator and its stakers. Liquid staking tokens auto-compound them; a native stake account just accrues the tips as spare lamports you have to withdraw yourself.
Can I withdraw MEV without unstaking?
Yes. The excess above your delegated stake plus the rent-exempt reserve is free, liquid SOL. Withdrawing exactly that amount leaves the delegation untouched and the account active, so there is no cooldown and you keep earning.
How much MEV am I missing as a native staker?
MEV is roughly 20 to 25 percent of a Solana staker’s total rewards. Because native stakers rarely withdraw and re-stake those tips, the compounding on that quarter of their yield is lost until they harvest it.
What is the difference between Jito MEV, JitoSOL and Marinade?
Jito MEV is the underlying tip revenue. JitoSOL is a liquid staking token that auto-compounds those tips. Marinade auto-compounds too, but only for mSOL. Native staking captures the same MEV and leaves the compounding to you — which this tool automates.
What does harvesting cost?
Scanning is free. A small service fee applies only to the MEV you actually harvest, and it routes straight to the Compass stake pool reserve, lifting the yield for every compassSOL holder. See how this tool's fees benefit compassSOL stakers.
Is harvesting MEV rewards safe?
It is non-custodial and you sign every transaction. The tool withdraws only the liquid excess, never your delegated principal, and skips any account with an active lockup. Compounding deposits the harvested SOL into compassSOL, a liquid staking token you hold in your own wallet.
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