Originally published on xroot.dev . For as long as Solana has had staking, the minimum you could delegate has been one lamport — a billionth of a SOL. It is why the network has tens of thousands of stake accounts holding a few thousandths of a SOL: airdropped stake, split leftovers, test delegations that were never cleaned up. Each one is a full account the runtime tracks and rewards, and each one costs more to process than it earns. That ended on 18 June 2026, when version 5 of the stak...