FAQ

On Sui, you delegate SUI to a validator. The validator participates in consensus, and an active stake can earn variable rewards at epoch boundaries (~24 hours). The position remains associated with your address but is illiquid while staked; you can submit an unstake through a compatible wallet or app when you want to exit.

An epoch on Sui is a network period of approximately 24 hours. At an epoch boundary, the protocol calculates staking rewards, updates staking-pool exchange rates and the active validator set, and processes pending stake or unstake changes according to the protocol rules.

APY (Annual Percentage Yield) is a historical annualized estimate, not a guaranteed rate. suistaking reads validator staking-pool exchange rates from Sui through GraphQL and annualizes the compounded change over a trailing window of up to 30 epochs. Estimates vary with validator reward outcomes, commission, the measurement window, and data availability.

Weighted APY (W. APY) is your personal effective annualized return, calculated as a weighted average of the real APYs of all validators you stake with, proportional to the amount staked in each. For example, if you stake 70% with a 3.5% APY validator and 30% with a 4.0% APY validator, your W. APY would be ~3.65%.

Go to the Profile page, enter your Sui address in the search field, and press Enter. You'll see your complete staking profile: balance, active stakes, rewards, staking insights with projections, and full staking history.

Staking Insights is an analytics block that helps you understand your staking performance. It shows: portfolio allocation (liquid vs staked vs rewards), weighted APY based on real validator rates, average reward per epoch, number of validators, projected rewards for 30 days / 100 days / 1 year, and actionable recommendations.

Compare historical APY, current commission, stake and voting-power concentration, at-risk status, and observable activity. No single metric guarantees future rewards: commission can change, APY is backward-looking, and a large stake or staker count is not proof of quality. The Validators page exposes these signals side by side.

Commission is the percentage of staking rewards that a validator keeps before distributing the rest to delegators. For example, a 5% commission means the validator takes 5% of all rewards generated and delegates receive the remaining 95%.

Voting power represents a validator's weight in the consensus process. It's proportional to the total SUI staked with that validator. Higher voting power means more influence on block production. For network health, it's better if voting power is distributed among many validators.

The staking simulator on app.suistaking.io/simulate lets you enter a SUI amount, compare up to four validators, and estimate daily, monthly, and yearly rewards using current validator APY. Projections are illustrative because rates can change each epoch.

suistaking is a read-only analytics platform. We never ask for or store private keys. All data is fetched from the public Sui blockchain. Your address is used only to query publicly available on-chain staking data.

The suistaking Telegram Bot (@sui_validator_bot) sends notifications about your staking activity, validator status changes, and network events. It's a companion tool to stay updated without checking the website.

Yes! A public API for developers is on our roadmap. It will allow programmatic access to validator data, staking events, and historical analytics. Stay tuned for announcements.

suistaking is built and maintained by n1stake — a Sui validator and blockchain infrastructure team. Learn more at n1stake.com.