Hey hey hey hey everyone, blockchain Bernie here with my latest episode and this one is about picking the right Solana validator to stake your salt tokens, the Solana native tokens to. So with staking you stake it to a specific validator or you choose what's called liquid staking, it'll eat a little bit out of your rewards but it has its at pros and cons so that's the content of my next video. So if you want to learn more about staking on Solana make sure to watch the next video for that I suggest subscribing to my channel also give this video a like it's really important for the YouTube algorithm and I greatly appreciate it. Alright so picking the correct validator to stake your salt to that will give you the highest rewards right so if you do anything else there's always some middleman that takes some sort of commission right and some of those validators take a commission as well because they are operating those high end servers in high end data centers so it's going to cost them a lot of money to do that so that's why many of these validators charge some commission that eats out of your rewards and out of your APY the annual percentage yield. Alright so let's just dive into it and see how it works so the site I recommend for getting an overview of what Solana validators are out there is stakewiz.com it's run by a guy named Lane that I know personally a very very nice guy living in South Africa and if you just go to stakewiz.com you see all those validators here and you see currently there are 2,823 validators out there wow that means how decentralized Solana is right that is crazy and on this first page you see the top 50 right so and by the way I'm running you know with with my startup betoku we're building the storage layer for Solana and we run the son of validator ourselves right and that's the betoku validator and you see the betoku validator really on the top where number 22 out of 2,800 something right so we're quite in the front and the best the best thing is we have 0% commission so there is a 7.86% yield so if you stake your Sol to our validator you earn 7.86 but there's plenty of other validators to stake to obviously so and then you can also sort this this was by Whiz score so that stake whiz is score some proprietary ranking but you can also see them by estimated APY the annual percentage yield that you make by staking to that validator and you see that betoku is also on rank 22nd here out of 2,800 and this all fluctuates right not every time you know the network conditions with each validator is they are different and you know we're now 22 and if you look in there like a few hours from now we could be 12 or we could be 5 or we could even be 1 or we could do we could be 27 or something like that so it's like the top 30 to 50 they all kind of rotate all the time and if you click on one of these validators and again let's do it with my own you see some stats here the skip rate means if they are the leader and create some blocks how often do they skip it this can sometimes happen just because the Solana network is not built in a way that you know everybody receives all those threads all the time right the voting rate 92.1 that's crazy high we have that almost 84% with score and are uptime the last 30 days was 99.63% and you can connect your wallet here and you can I'm creating alert when these one of these validators become delinquent and you can also just stake to that validator just out of the stake with side all you need to do is connect your wallet first and then stake and you see the APY here you see the description and the name and you see the stats here over time so there is a trend line here that's going upwards and and also the development of our stake so how many people and how many Sol has been staked or a validator you see it's it's a nice curve here it's going upwards so I'm really happy that our business model is working and you saw we had like 3% or 5% commission in the past but since since January 21st 2023 our commission is 0% we have no data center concentrations so we're alone that we're the only Solana validator in that data center where we run and yeah I think we're a great validator just stake to but with stake was you see all of them and pick yours and as I said this is the the best method because nobody is eating into your into your rewards other than the validator itself if they have a commission many many of them have 10% commission there's a few that have like whatever 8 5 3% right and there is only only a few out of these 2,800 that have 0% commission we are one of those so you get all the 7.86% that we create for you by running our validator in a data center high end server all of these 7.86% go right into your wallet and it might not be like that forever but it's definitely going to be like that for another few months or many months so yeah if you want to stake anything to our validator or to any other validator now you know how to do it so I hope you like this content and the next video is really important because then I tell you about liquid staking on Solana which is a whole different animal and it has pros and cons and you learn about that in the next video stay tuned and catch you later bye