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The Timely Vote Credits (TVC) upgrade on Solana allows the protocol to be aware of the timeliness of a validator’s slot votes and actively incentivize it.

It is also very relevant for delegators as well.

While block rewards and MEV tips are consistently hitting all time highs, voting rewards from SOL issuance still form a significant chunk of validator and delegator rewards. (1st graph)

Not only that, these are in-protocol meaning validators are obligated to share these with their delegators based on the former's commission rates. (2nd graph)

Delegators get around 70% of issuance, which at current prices can be USD 90M per week.

Another interesting metric to track would be vote latency over the next few days. It’s the distance between the slot being voted for and the slot where the vote transaction itself lands.

Here it is across different validator cohorts based on the amount of their stake.

Anything at or below 2 slots worth would give the validator the full voting rewards.

Protocol Specialist at Rated Labs (rated.network) 

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