SOLANA TOOLS HUB

A collection of tools built by validators, for validators. Mostly under-the-radar, made by the community itself, not promoted in mainstream channels. Many of these you won't find aggregated anywhere else. Gathered over years of running a node, ranked by what we actually use day-to-day.

60 tools across 10 categories. Verified, curated, and kept fresh.

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01 Validator Analytics 22 tools
Vortex
Income leaderboard ranked by real block earnings. Drill down into per-block data to see exactly where a validator's revenue comes from.
Vortex team
Sandwiched.me
Tracks validator MEV behavior: sandwich attacks, aggressive schedulers. Solana Foundation reportedly uses this data when assessing node quality.
The Ghost Team community
Trillium
Live validator and epoch dashboard. Wide surface of metrics in one place, from the author of one of the most complete JSON APIs for Solana epoch data.
Trillium community
ValidBlocks SVP
Solana Validators Profitability dashboard. Comprehensive validator stats and monitoring, powered by Trillium data.
ValidBlocks community
IBRL Analytics
Analyzes block-building behavior using slot-level data. Produces an IBRL score plus separate scores for slot timing, vote packing and non-vote packing.
Jito
SPEX
Rewards per block, MEV per block, vote credits, slot duration. Deep performance analytics for individual validators.
Staking Facilities
SVT
Solana Validator Toolkit dashboard with validator metrics and stake data.
JPool community
Sonda
Decentralization and infrastructure metrics. Lets validators assess how decentralized their setup is relative to the rest of the network.
Solya Validator community
Slashr
Live validator incident feed: delinquency, missed votes. Covers Solana, Ethereum, Sui and Cosmos.
Slashr community
Parafi Network Stats
Solana network statistics dashboard with validator and network-level data.
Parafi
Pools Adviser
Helps delegators choose where to stake by comparing stake pools and validators side by side.
Lum Labs community
Jito Explorer
Block explorer focused on Jito-related activity: bundles, tips, MEV flows.
Jito Labs
SolFees
Tracks priority fees on Solana with per-block and historical breakdowns.
SolFees community
MariSam
Marinade validator tracker with SFDP stake tracking. Useful for validators tracking their own SFDP status.
Pigs in Blankets community
Solana HCL
Hardware Compatibility List for running a Solana mainnet validator. Reference for what hardware actually works in production.
community community
Wen Firedancer
Real-time tracker of Firedancer validator client adoption. Shows what percent of stake runs Firedancer and which validators have switched.
H2O Nodes community
SIMD Vote Status
Live status of validator votes on Solana Improvement Documents. Track governance decisions like Alpenglow, market-based emissions, block revenue distribution.
Staking Facilities
Choplet
Validator monitoring with real-time metrics, uptime tracking and instant alerts. Includes Blinklet, a no-code platform for creating Solana Actions.
Choplet community
DeepStake Widget
Embeddable widget that lets validators show staking info on their own websites. Open source.
DeepStake Validator community
SSR
Visual mapping of validator overlap by IP address. Current data may be limited, but historical records are available.
Ragged community
Blockline Validator Ranking
Wallet-to-validator concentration tracker. Identifies wallets that consistently land transactions when one specific validator is leading. Reconstructed at PoH tick precision.
Blockline community
Validator Transparency Dashboard
Open dashboard surfacing transparency metrics for Solana validators.
AndrewInUa Validator community
02 Validator Alerts 1 tool
03 Stake Pools & LSTs 6 tools
04 Profit Calculators 7 tools
05 Pool Delegation Programs 5 tools
06 Node Operator Tools 4 tools
07 Alpenglow 3 tools
08 Special Tracks 4 tools
09 Big & Established 4 tools
10 Learning & Resources 4 tools