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Solana validator

Vortex runs a Solana validator and measures how validators perform.

Alpenglow consensus participation, block production, income and stake for every validator on the cluster — free at app.vx.tools and through a public, read-only API.

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app.vx.tools

See how validators perform under Alpenglow

The Vortex dashboard is free and needs no account. Every page is a shareable link.

Consensus leaderboard

Alpenglow participation per validator, with separate voting and block-production views. Tower-era vote credits are kept as history.

Fees leaderboard

Validators ranked by block income: base fees, priority fees and MEV tips.

Validators

Operational status of every staked validator: stake, client and version, balances and region.

Decentralization

How stake is spread across the cluster.

Stake pools

Which pools stake where, and how much.

Validator pages

Search any validator by name, identity or vote account for its participation, income, stake and epoch history.

Open data

The same data, as a public API

Everything on the dashboard is served by api.vx.tools: read-only, no key, no signup. Every endpoint accepts GET or POST.

curl https://api.vx.tools/epochs/current

curl 'https://api.vx.tools/epochs/leaderboard/voting?epoch=<EPOCH>'
  • Votes and block income are ingested from Solana RPC slot by slot; epoch aggregates are computed on each epoch boundary.
  • Names come from on-chain validator-info accounts, and the directory, clients and balances from Solana RPC. Locations are looked up with DB-IP Lite (IP Geolocation by DB-IP).
  • The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: credit Vortex, and keep the DB-IP credit on anything showing validator locations.
  • Endpoints cover epochs and the validator directory, stake and commission, block income and insights, per-epoch vote stats and slot-level history, live consensus, and leaderboards for consensus, participation, block producers, voting and income.

Point your assistant at

api.vx.tools/llms.txt

An llms.txt reference so AI assistants and agents can discover and query the endpoints directly.

Using Vortex with AI

Delegate

Stake with Vortex

Delegating is native Solana staking: your SOL stays in a stake account you control, and you can deactivate at any time.

  1. Copy the vote account

    vxvo76XgSgrEtT6iZ5LWc8zHTbe8Myn2nTo8p9yFiDD

  2. Delegate from your wallet or the CLI

    Any wallet that supports native staking can delegate to a vote account: search for the vote account above, or use the Solana CLI.

  3. Wait for the epoch boundary

    New stake starts activating at the start of the next epoch. A mainnet epoch is 432,000 slots, currently about a day.

  4. Watch it work

    Follow Vortex's votes and block income on app.vx.tools.

Solana CLI

solana-keygen new --no-bip39-passphrase -o stake-account.json
solana create-stake-account stake-account.json <AMOUNT_SOL>
solana delegate-stake stake-account.json vxvo76XgSgrEtT6iZ5LWc8zHTbe8Myn2nTo8p9yFiDD

Staking carries risk. Read the legal notice before you delegate.

Check any validator in seconds

Current-epoch leaderboards refresh continuously while the epoch is in progress.

Open app.vx.tools