Solflare Will Repay Missed Rewards After a Validator Serving $160 Million in SOL Went Offline

By Isaac • October 29, 2026 7:13 am •

Solflare has moved from warning users about a validator outage to promising to make affected stakers whole for the rewards they missed.

The important distinction is that this was not a loss of users’ delegated SOL. It was an infrastructure failure that stopped one validator from doing the work required to earn staking rewards.

According to CoinDesk, roughly 1.56 million SOL—about $160 million at the time—was delegated to the affected validator. Solflare said an outside company that operated the validator reported a security incident involving validator keys.

The validator then stopped producing rewards. CoinDesk also reported that Solflare brought a replacement online, promised reimbursement for missed rewards and told users to move through the wallet rather