Commission where it goes

Reading it

• Two rules. When a wallet holds commission and other coins together, nobody can say which coins left. First in, first out spends the oldest coins first; pro-rata spends every origin in proportion. The gap between them is the uncertainty.
• Exchanges. Only addresses a named source labels as an exchange count as one. Addresses that look like exchange deposit addresses (many senders, deposit-style memos) are shown separately as inferred.
• Not followed further is commission that went past three wallets, into a wallet too busy to trace, into a contract or interchain account, or into liquid staking shares. It is shown, not spread across the other classes.
• USD is the value when the commission was withdrawn, not a sale price.

Selling is normal

Commission is a validator's revenue. It is taxable income when withdrawn, and it pays for servers, staff and that tax, so most operators sell some of it. These figures describe on-chain movements, not intent, and they are never used to rank validators.

A validator can see its own trace under its statement on the Validators page.