FAQ

On Sui, you delegate your SUI tokens to a validator. The validator participates in consensus on your behalf, and you earn staking rewards each epoch (~24 hours). Your tokens remain in your control — you can unstake at any time, though there may be a cooldown period before tokens become liquid again.

An epoch on Sui is a time period of approximately 24 hours. At the end of each epoch, staking rewards are distributed to delegators, validator sets are recalculated, and pending stake/unstake requests are processed.

APY (Annual Percentage Yield) represents the annualized return on your staked tokens. ValStat fetches real APY data directly from the Sui network using the suix_getValidatorsApy RPC method, which calculates APY based on the exchange rate history of each validator's staking pool. Each validator has a different APY depending on their performance and commission rate.

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.

Consider these factors: APY (higher is better, but check consistency), commission rate (lower means more rewards for you), voting power (diversifying across smaller validators helps decentralization), uptime and at-risk status, and total stakers (community trust indicator). The Validators page shows all these metrics in a sortable table.

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 Earnings Calculator on the home page lets you enter a SUI amount and see estimated earnings over 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year. It uses the current average network APY (from real validator data) to compute projections.

ValStat 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 ValStat 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.

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