Security & Responsibility

Staking on Solana is non-custodial. Solya, like any validator on the network, has no access to your wallet or staked SOL. The Solana protocol handles reward distribution automatically at the end of each epoch. You can unstake at any time; funds become available when the current epoch ends. With today's faster slots an epoch lasts about 32 hours, so the wait is a day or so rather than the two to three days it used to be.

The node runs on dedicated hardware in Hong Kong (Amarutu, AS206264). We chose the location and the provider in September 2026 with the help of SONDA: little stake concentration, Jito BAM and DoubleZero nodes in the same city, and an established provider whose validators perform well. Before that, Solya Validator ran in Singapore (May 2026 to September 2026) and São Paulo, Brazil (June 2025 to May 2026). The server is hardened, access is key-based only, and new validator releases run on our testnet node before they reach mainnet.

The node is connected to DoubleZero (hkg001-dz001) for filtered, low-latency validator communication, and runs the Jito BAM client for verifiable, tamper-resistant transaction scheduling.

Identity key, vote key, and withdraw authority are fully separated. The withdraw authority is stored offline and never touches the validator server. Commission is set to 0% and there are no plans to change that. If it ever did change, it would be announced publicly well in advance.

Solya also runs a validator on the Alpenglow community cluster (since wave 2, May 2026). This is an isolated network with completely separate identity and vote keys that have no relationship to the mainnet validator or its withdraw authority. Participation in the Alpenglow cluster cannot affect mainnet stakers in any way: different network, different keys, no shared funds.

Solya also runs a node on Solana testnet, the network where new Agave and Jito releases are tested before they reach mainnet. Like the Alpenglow cluster, it is an isolated environment with its own identity and vote keys, fully unrelated to the mainnet validator or any of its keys.

Keep your seed phrase offline and never share it. Use a trusted wallet: Phantom or Solflare both support native Solana staking. Stake through your wallet's staking interface or the options on the Stake page. Never send SOL directly to any address.