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Stake
SOL tokens that are delegated to a validator to increase its voting weight and earn staking rewards. Staking is non-custodial—stakers retain ownership of their SOL. Stake activates/deactivates at epoch boundaries with a warmup/cooldown period. Validators with more stake are assigned more leader slots and have proportionally more influence in consensus.
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Validator
A node that participates in the Solana network by validating transactions, voting on blocks, and (when selected as leade...
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Delegator
A SOL holder who delegates tokens to a validator's stake without running a node themselves. Delegators earn a share of i...
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Stake Account
A dedicated on-chain account that holds delegated SOL for staking. Each stake account has a staker authority (can redele...