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Validators

The Validators leaderboard is Circular’s real-time ranking of validators on Solana, built to answer one simple question:

Who is capturing the most economic value and transaction flow and how?

This page documents how the leaderboard works, what each metric means, and how to interpret the drill-downs.

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What Validators measures

Circular ranks validators using verifiable on-chain outcomes, computed in real time:

  • Network economics: fees, tips, and MEV-related revenues

  • Execution footprint: volume, transactions, wallets, blocks

  • Validator configuration signals: commission, MEV commission, integrations

Unlike surface metrics (headline activity, social hype), Validators is grounded in what actually executed and paid out.

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What you see on each validator

Each row/card represents a validator, with a snapshot of its identity, setup, and performance:

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Identity & status

  • Validator name + branding (when known)

  • Active status

  • Vote account and Identity address (for attribution and verification)

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Integrations

Where applicable, the UI can show integrations such as:

  • Jito

  • DoubleZero

  • Marinade

(These are displayed as tags/flags to quickly understand the validator’s execution context)

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Economics

  • Commission (%)

  • MEV Commission (%)

  • Revenue

  • Jito Tips

  • Fees

  • MEV Rev

  • MEV Tips

  • MEV Fees

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Flow & activity

  • Volume

  • Transactions

  • Wallets

  • Blocks

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Metric definitions

Below are the typical meanings used in the leaderboard:

  • Revenue: total economic value attributed over the selected window (aggregation of Fees + Jito Tips).

  • Fees: transaction fees attributed to flow processed by the validator.

  • Jito Tips: tips received by the validator via Jito (94% of tips are taken into account because Jito takes 6% of tips as revenue)

  • MEV Rev: When a validator validates an arbitrage transaction, the revenue from the transaction is not collected by the validator but is added to calculate the revenue generated by the MEV during the validation of these blocks.

  • MEV Tips: When a validator validates an arbitrage transaction, the transaction tip is not automatically received by the validator if the transaction did not go through Jito. A transaction going through a transaction provider such as Temporal, 0Slot, or Fast will be counted and added to the MEV Tips.

  • MEV Fees: When a validator validates an arbitrage transaction, the transaction fees collected by the validator are added to MEV Fees.

  • Volume: total value moved through transactions attributed to the validator.

  • Transactions: number of transactions attributed to the validator.

  • Wallets: unique wallets interacting in the attributed flow.

  • Blocks: blocks associated with the validator over the selected period.

(Exact availability can depend on the time window, indexing completeness, and whether a subset like MEV is detectable for that flow)

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Ranking logic

Validators are ranked by their generated revenue (Fees + Jito Tips).

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View Details

Clicking View Details expands a validator into a drill-down that makes the leaderboard auditable.

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Top Earning Wallets

You’ll see a table such as:

  • Rank

  • Wallet

  • Revenue

  • Jito Tips

  • Fees

  • Volume

  • Transactions

  • Best TX (Transaction that generated the most revenue for the validator by the wallet (Fees + Jito Tips)

This answers:

  • How much MEV revenue is validated by a validator?

  • Which wallets are monetizing this validator’s flow?

  • What do the top transactions look like (including fee/tip details)?

  • Is the revenue concentrated or widely distributed?

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