0% commission on inflation rewards and MEV. We build open-source tools for the Solana ecosystem, including SONDA. Running from Hong Kong since September 2026, a location with little stake concentration that we chose with SONDA.
HwcVgFSgmfeeF7zGFUBLoVA8Hpx8rtwyfCrJ1npBaSVC Solya Validator is a single mainnet validator looked after by one operator. Keys, infrastructure, location history and the code of our tools are public.
Stakers receive all inflation rewards and all Jito MEV tips. The validator covers its own costs from the fees in the blocks it produces, so everything your stake earns goes to you.
Hosted in Hong Kong since September 2026 with Amarutu, an established provider whose 26 mainnet validators perform well. We chose it with SONDA: the city holds 0.65% of Solana's stake, and Jito BAM and DoubleZero have nodes there.
Solya Validator is connected to DoubleZero, a dedicated network for Solana validators, and publishes its shreds through DoubleZero multicast. One transmission reaches every subscriber at once, which takes load off the rest of the network.
Part of the Solana Foundation Delegation Program since September 2021. The program checks uptime, performance, commission and the absence of harmful practices such as sandwiching, over repeated rounds of review.
Solya Validator runs Jito's BAM client, which moves transaction scheduling into trusted execution environments, with a BAM node in Hong Kong. The ordering can be checked, and front-running or sandwich attacks become much harder.
Run from Ukraine by one person: a single mainnet validator, plus testnet and Alpenglow nodes for testing new releases. The same operator builds SONDA and our other open-source tools.
SONDA started in 2023 with a question every operator runs into: where should a validator live? The basics were out there: how many validators a datacenter hosts, how much stake it holds, which provider stands behind an ASN. What was missing was a way to compare datacenters by how their validators actually perform, across vote credits, skipped slots, block times and more, side by side. That meant writing scripts and watching validators by hand. SONDA grew out of those scripts.
Today SONDA is an open-source observatory for Solana validators across four clusters: mainnet-beta, testnet, the Alpenglow community cluster and devnet, which most validator dashboards leave out. It shows where validators run, with which providers and how well, where DoubleZero and Jito BAM infrastructure is placed and who is connected to it, and turns all of this into practical answers for operators. Mainnet data refreshes every minute, and the dashboard is free to use.
I use SONDA myself to run Solya Validator. The move to Hong Kong in September 2026 was decided with it: while building the datacenter pages and filters, I compared cities and providers by stake concentration, by how their validators perform and by the Jito BAM and DoubleZero nodes nearby. You can do the same before choosing your next datacenter.
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AmarutuAS206264What Solya Validator does for Solana besides staying online on mainnet: early protocol testing, open-source tools, hackathons, learning with the community and governance votes.
Solya Validator joined the Alpenglow community cluster in its second wave (May 15, 2026, 86 validators) to help test the new consensus in real conditions before it reaches mainnet. Our node there is also SONDA's main data source for this cluster.
Alpenglow cluster only · not for delegation · keys on the Security page
SONDA entered Crypto World's Fair (September 14 to October 12, 2026), the first multichain Colosseum hackathon. Shipped so far: datacenter pages by provider, include and exclude filters, and vote performance for every validator.
SONDA joined the second Solana Startup Terminal by Superteam Ukraine: eight weeks of lessons, sessions with mentors and new people in the Ukrainian Solana community, on the way to the Colosseum hackathon.
SONDA was submitted to Solana's Frontier hackathon (April 6 to May 11, 2026). Shipped during it: the public dashboard at sonda.network, cross-verified geolocation, validator pages and event alerts on Telegram and X.
SONDA's backend and dashboard, and this website, are open source on GitHub. Anyone can read the code, run their own copy or reuse parts of it in their own work.
Solya Validator takes part in every Solana governance vote: the SIMD votes, including SIMD-0326 for Alpenglow, and the SGP votes, including SGP-0001, the Solana Constitution.
The milestones that shaped the validator and SONDA, oldest first.
Solya Validator started on Solana in 2021 and has been part of SFDP since September of that year.
The validator stayed online through the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine and the long bear market that followed.
Command-line scripts to compare datacenters and find a place where the validator performs well enough for performance-based stake pools such as Jito. SONDA grew out of them.
Stakers receive all inflation rewards.
The first deliberate move away from the US and Europe, to a region with few Solana validators.
Solya Validator voted on the proposal to move Solana to the Alpenglow consensus, which validators approved.
Jito tips go to stakers in full.
The validator gets its own website, open source like everything else.
The public dashboard at sonda.network launches during the Colosseum Frontier hackathon.
Joined in the second wave, on May 15, to test the new consensus in real conditions.
Jito's BAM rollout did not reach São Paulo in time, so Solya moved next to BAM nodes in Singapore.
Solya Validator voted in the first Solana Governance Proposals, including SGP-0001, which ratified the Solana Constitution.
SONDA joins the Superteam Ukraine program: lessons, mentors and new people in the community.
SONDA enters its second Colosseum hackathon.
Low stake concentration, Jito BAM and DoubleZero nodes in the city, and an established provider.
Stake natively from your wallet in a few steps, or choose liquid staking through BlazeStake or JPool and get a token you can use in DeFi while your SOL keeps earning.
You can stake to Solya from any Solana wallet. Here is how it works in Phantom and Solflare.
Tap SOL in your asset list to open the token screen.
Tap ... More, then Stake SOL, then Native Staking. It sits a few taps deeper than liquid staking.
Type Solya in the validator search, or paste the vote account below.
Phantom shows the estimated APY for Solya. Enter the amount and confirm the transaction.
In Solflare, go to the Staking section from the main navigation.
Type Solya or paste the vote account, enter the amount and confirm.
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