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Solana validator

Vortex runs a Solana validator and measures how validators perform.

Vote quality and block income for validators across the cluster, open to everyone at app.vx.tools and through a public, read-only API.

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See how validators actually vote and earn

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

Voting leaderboard

Validators ranked by vote accuracy and lag, for the current epoch and past epochs.

Income leaderboard

Validators ranked by median block income, split into base fees, priority fees and MEV tips.

Compare validators

Rank, missed credits and missed slots for two validators, side by side.

Validator pages

Search any validator by name, identity or vote account to see its voting and income ranks, epoch history and slot-level vote records.

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.
  • Validator names and locations come from validators.app, refreshed hourly.
  • Endpoints cover epochs, the validator directory, block income and insights, per-epoch vote stats and slot-level vote history, and both leaderboards.

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, roughly two days.

  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.

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