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More Control, Better Yields: Introducing Dynamic Commission for Validators

Validators can now set custom commission rates for Marinade stake—offering more flexibility and control in how they compete for delegation.

Introducing SOLC: The Canary Marinade Staked Solana ETF

The Canary Marinade Staked Solana ETF (SOLC) offers regulated access to fully staked Solana, passing 100% of staking rewards back to investors. Built with BitGo custody and Marinade Select’s SOC 2–compliant staking, SOLC provides secure, transparent, and institution-ready Solana exposure.

Instant Unstake: The Fastest Way to Exit Native Staking on Solana

Instantly unstake SOL on Solana with Marinade’s new Instant Unstake feature — built with Anza. Skip the 2-day epoch delay and get SOL back immediately, with zero fees and full on-chain safety.

Automating MEV Rewards on Solana: How Marinade Makes Your Stake Work Harder

Marinade automatically compounds your Solana MEV rewards every epoch — no manual claiming, no idle SOL. Learn how Marinade turns hidden validator tips into continuous, effortless yield growth.

Powering Sustainable Token Launches with Metaplex Genesis

Marinade joins forces with Metaplex Genesis to power the next wave of Solana token launches through sustainable, transparent, and yield-driven tokenomics. Projects can stake raised SOL with Marinade to earn yield and automate token buybacks — creating long-term on-chain demand and treasury growth.

Why Solana Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) need to stake

Discover why digital asset treasuries stake SOL on Solana. Earn yield, preserve value, and secure the network with Marinade staking solutions.

MNDE is getting listed on MEXC

MNDE is now listed on MEXC! Spot & perps trading starts Sep 10. To celebrate, MEXC is hosting a $50,000 Airdrop+ campaign for traders and the community.

Introducing Active Staking Rewards: A New Way to Participate in Marinade Governance

MIP‑13: Active Staking Rewards is now live for voting on Realms. The proposal introduces a 25M MNDE reward pool for governance participants in 2025, with rewards distributed based on voting activity. If passed, the program aims to encourage consistent, accessible DAO participation.

Stake mSOL, Earn zBTC: Marinade x Zeus Protocol Bring Dual Asset Accumulation to Solana

Stake mSOL via btcSOL to earn zBTC and gain exposure to both Solana and Bitcoin. Enjoy a 200% zBTC boost and MNDE rewards during the launch. Powered by Marinade and Zeus Protocol.

Marinade is SOC 2 Type 2 Certified – A New Standard for Institutional Staking

Marinade has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 compliance — becoming one of the first major staking protocols to meet this rigorous institutional security standard. This milestone reinforces our role in supporting upcoming U.S. Solana ETF applications and showcases our commitment to secure, compliant, and decentralized staking infrastructure.

How Marinade is Making Sandwiching Validators Pay

Following GhostLogs research, Marinade is blacklisting sandwiching validators and implementing bond slashing to make bad actors pay for their own removal. This operational advantage enables serious validators to compete fairly, driving increased competition and better yields for stakers.

Borrow Stablecoins Against Staked SOL with mSOL on Maple

Solana Staking, Unchained: The Good, the Bad, and the Next Evolution in Validator Access

Solana staking is changing. Explore how Marinade’s open validator marketplace improves decentralization, boosts yield transparency, and reshapes the validator ecosystem.

Unlocking Liquidity: How Marinade's Instant Unstake Solves a Core Solana Native Staking Pain Point

Solana native staking offers security, but unstaking delays can slow you down. Learn how Marinade’s Instant Unstake solves this key ecosystem limitation.

SEC says native staking is not a security. A staked Solana ETF Is now within reach.

The SEC has clarified that protocol staking is not a securities transaction. This gives the proposed Staked Solana ETF a strong regulatory foundation and improves its chances for approval. Marinade provides the staking infrastructure behind it — purpose-built for transparency, compliance, and alignment with the Solana protocol.

Marinade Earn Season 4 is here — with more ways to earn and more utility for mSOL.

Marinade Earn Season 4 introduces a new Isolated Lending Market on Kamino, adds MNDE incentives for Orca LPs, and continues rewarding Raydium liquidity. 750,000 MNDE is live for the first 14 days.

Marinade Makes History as First and Exclusive Staking Provider in U.S. Solana ETF Filing

Marinade is proud to announce a historic first: Canary Capital’s newly filed U.S. Solana Staking ETF will be powered by Marinade Select, our newest staking infrastructure designed specifically for institutional adoption. This is more than a milestone for Marinade — it’s a leap forward for compliant, transparent, and enterprise-ready staking on Solana.

Marinade Select: Unlocking Institutional Staking on Solana

Marinade Select is live. A new staking product designed to support institutional adoption of Solana. Stake SOL with verified validators - giving your organization full control with compliance-ready transparency.

BitGo Adds Institutional-Grade Access to Marinade Native

BitGo now offers secure, non-custodial SOL staking through Marinade — with full custody, SOC 2 compliance, and institutional-grade rewards.

Marinade is now SOC 2 Type I compliant

We’re excited to share that Marinade is now officially SOC 2 Type I compliant — a critical milestone in our effort to build the most trusted, institution-ready staking infrastructure on Solana.

Now Live: Easily track and export your staking rewards

We’ve just launched a new Staking Rewards feature that brings more clarity and transparency to your Marinade Native staking experience.

PumpSwap is Live—Marinade Joins as a Launch Partner

Today marks an exciting step forward for Solana DeFi—PumpSwap is officially live!

The Ultimate Guide for Staking on Solana

Discover the ultimate guide to staking on Solana. Learn the basics, benefits, risks, and advanced strategies to earn rewards and support the network. From wallet setup to choosing validators and leveraging liquid staking, this comprehensive resource equips you with everything you need to optimize your staking journey securely and effectively.

Marinade vs Jito

Compare Jito and Marinade, the top liquid staking platforms on Solana, focusing on their staking offerings, infrastructure, and fees.

Phase 2 of Marinade’s Stake Auction Marketplace (SAM)

Marinade’s Stake Auction Marketplace enters Phase 2, unlocking higher rewards for Solana stakers through live validator bids.

Solana Staking 101

Learn the basics of staking on Solana, including how to start, the differences between native and liquid staking, and the role of validators. Discover how Marinade offers unique benefits for maximizing rewards and minimizing risks in the Solana ecosystem.

Kitchen Stories: Monthly Roundup for June, 2024

Explore the exciting updates in Marinade v2, featuring native staking, Protected Staking Rewards (PSR), and the Stake Auction Marketplace (SAM), enhancing SOL staking.

Introducing Marinade v2

Marinade is evolving and improving. Learn more about Marinade v2 in this article.

Marinade Earn Season 3 is coming!

Read more about the upcoming Marinade Earn Season

Marinade Kitchen Stories - May 2024

Read the latest Marinade DAO monthly updates for May, 2024.

Marinade as a Solana public good

Marinade plays a key role in the ecosystem as a public good for Solana.

Kitchen Stories: Monthly update for April 2024

Read more about what happened in April in the kitchen.

Coinbase Prime announces integration of Marinade’s mSOL liquid staking token for trading and custody

Clients of the leading qualified custodian can now trade and hold mSOL, a Solana liquid staking token, from their Coinbase Prime accounts.

Comparing Proof-of-stake Mechanisms: Solana vs other top L1 blockchains

How Solana compares to other proof-of-stake blockchains. Where should you stake your crypto?

Exchanges

Discover how crypto exchanges can integrate Marinade's staking solutions to offer secure, high-yield SOL rewards and boost trading activity.

Custodians

Explore how custodians can leverage Marinade's staking solutions to provide secure, high-yield rewards on SOL tokens for their clients.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - March, 2024

Read more about what happened in the kitchen throughout March.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - February, 2024

Read more about what happened in the kitchen during the shortest month of the year.

Protected Staking Rewards and Delegation Strategy updates

Read the latest updates on the upcoming changes to Marinade

Kitchen Stories - January 2024 Marinade Report

Read the Marinade monthly report to learn what happened throughout January.

Protected Staking Rewards - Rollout details

Read more about the next steps for Protected Staking Rewards

Let Marinade Earn Season 2 Begin!

Learn more about the details of Marinade Earn Season 2

Marinade Kitchen Stories - December, 2023

Read more about what happened in the kitchen in December!

Introducing PSR: Protected Staking Rewards

Learn more about what Marinade has been working on to protect the staking rewards of their stakers.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - November 2023

Learn more about what happened in the kitchen over the month of November.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - October 2023

Read the latest updates from the Marinade DAO

Safety First: Marinade is preparing an upgrade to its liquid staking smart contract

Learn more about the smart contract upgrade that Marinade has been working on

Marinade isn’t just liquid staking anymore

Marinade Native makes it possible for anyone to benefit from an optimized delegation strategy

Marinade Kitchen Stories - September 2023

Read the summary of what happened in the kitchen during the month of September!

Marinade governance update: An upgraded liquid staking contract controlled by the DAO

Marinade will be moving the upgrade authority of its main smart contract to MNDE holders

Introducing Marinade Earn: Season 1

Marinade Earn season is here, read this article to learn more about this new incentive program.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - August 2023

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen over the month of August!

Marinade Native surpasses 1.8M SOL stake!

Marinade Native, an innovative staking product on Solana, surpasses 1.8 million SOL stake in its first month

Marinade Kitchen Stories - July 2023

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen during the busy month of July.

The case for Solana automated staking with Marinade

Monitoring validators can be a complex task, which is why using an automated staking product makes sense for most Solana stakers!

Introducing Marinade Native

Learn more about Marinade's new product, Marinade Native.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - June 2023

June has been a busy month for Marinade and Solana DeFi! Read more about what happened in our Kitchen stories.

Introducing leveraged mSOL staking with Super Stake SOL

Discover the new product built on top of mSOL by the Drift team

Marinade Kitchen Stories - May 2023

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen this month.

Solana Validator Spotlight: Lucky Stake

Discover the Lucky Stake validator operator with Marinade

Introducing Marinade V2: The next chapter for Solana staking and MNDE

Marinade is evolving and growing, read more in this article.

Solana Spotlight: The Lotus Validator NFT project

Get to know The Lotus Validator, launched by a NFT community

Introducing Directed Stake with mSOL

Discover Marinade's newly released product!

Marinade Kitchen Stories - April 2023

Read more about what happened in the kitchen in April!

Staking on Ethereum vs. Solana: A comparison

Staking on Solana and on Ethereum is similar but there are some key differences

Marinade Kitchen Stories - March 2023

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen during March.

Introducing a new-and-improved delegation formula for mSOL

Marinade just released a new version of its delegation strategy. Learn more about everything that changed.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - February 2023

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen over February!

MNDE tokenomics update: Revisiting Incentives at Marinade

Read more about how Marinade tokenomics will evolve going forward.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - January 2023

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen in January!

Validator Spotlight: Staking Facilities

Meet Staking Facilities, one of the biggest validator running on Solana

Driving community, liquidity and decentralization: Introducing the Marinade Open Doors Program

Marinade launches the Open Doors program to power DeFi and mSOL growth and distribute Marinade ownership to builders over 2023

Marinade Kitchen Stories - December 2022

Check out what happened in the Kitchen during the last month of 2022!

Introducing Marinade’s all-new Validator Dashboard

Marinade has released a detailed dashboard for validators and Solana stakers to make the staking experience more transparent for everyone.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - November 2022

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen during the month of November!

Marinade Kitchen Stories - October 2022

A lot happened in the Kitchen during the month of October, let's recap everything!

The state of Marinade in the wake of FTX-Alameda

In the wake of the FTX/Alameda collapse, let's assess where Marinade stands.

Meet the Sharks: Latest Marinade NFT collection on Solana is live!

All 3,333 octopuses have been minted, it's now time for Shark NFTs!

Marinade + MEV, Part 3: Introducing mTransaction

Network upgrades on Solana introduce the possibility of priority transactions. Introducing mTransactions by Marinade. Here's how it works.

Marinade + MEV, part 2: The most popular restaurant on the block

Learn more about what MEV is in this second part of Marinade's MEV series!

Marinade + MEV on Solana, part 1: more rewards for your mSOL

A brief presentation of MEV on Solana and Marinade's plan for the future.

Introducing Liquid Self-Stake by Marinade

Marinade recently released a new product in order to unlock stake currently held by validators and used to run their nodes.

Solana Validator Spotlight: Avaulto

Learn more about Avaulto, one of the early validators of Solana

Marinade Kitchen Stories - September 2022

Read more about what happened in the Kitchen during the month of September!

How to use mSOL in Solana DeFi liquidity pools

You wonder how liquidity pools work or how to make them work to your advantage? Marinade created this article to explain in-depth everything you need to know.

How to use Marinade with a Ledger wallet

Learn how to use Marinade in the safest way using a Ledger wallet

Introducing Liquid Unstake: No matter where you stake SOL, unstake it instantly with Marinade

Discover the latest feature on Marinade that allows you to unstake directly from a stake account

Marinade Kitchen Stories - August 2022

Read about what happened in the Kitchen during the month of August!

How Solana NFT Project UdderChaos milks its Validator and Marinade gauges for community benefit

Read more about how UdderChaos leverages the Marinade gauges to run a profitable validator on Solana.

Partnership Announcement: Snowflake integrates Marinade Finance’s mSOL liquid staking

Snowflake announces its new product integrating mSOL!

Marinade Kitchen Stories - July 2022

It’s the middle of summer, the weather is hot and the barbecue grills fired up. July at Marinade was an eventful one, and for some team members included more travel to Solana Hacker Houses at Paris and then on to Krakow to start August.

Introduction to Marinade, Solana’s leading liquid staking protocol and so much more!

As of August 2, 2022, Marinade’s liquid staking dApp has officially celebrated its one one-year anniversary operating its mainnet on Solana!

Introducing Zaps, smarter Solana DeFi with mSOL

Solana DeFi enthusiasts, Marinade is pleased to announce Zaps, an update to the app that introduces smarter, higher-performance DeFi to your wallet’s positions.

Marinade's 2022 roadmap: A midyear's update

A lot has happened around Solana the first half of the year. Marinade shares its progress to goals and updates its mission.

Marinade DAO executes Token Exchange Program to align with leading Solana builders

Through the token exchange, Marinade is aligning with a collection of key builders across the Solana ecosystem.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - June 2022

June has been a packed month for the Marinade team! Get all the updates and news that you might have missed this month in the Marinade Kitchen Stories!

Introducing the next chapter for the Marinade Community

Greetings Marinade family, I am Data, your new Community Manager and I’m delighted to be joining you all in the kitchen.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - May 2022

An eventful month of May has passed and it’s time for the Chefs to summarize the latest news and developments in the kitchen as well as some highlights across the Marinade and Solana ecosystem.

Marinade's Solana Validator Spotlight: Solana Compass

On April 30th, the validators of Solana stepped out of the shadows and for a brief moment, the eyes of crypto were upon them.

Meet Trdelník, the winning product of the Marinade grant for the Riptide Hackathon!

Hackathons are near and dear to the Marinade Chefs. As you may remember, Marinade itself was born out of the Solana x Serum DeFi Hackathon in March, 2021. So it was an honor to sponsor a prize and judge the 2022 Solana Riptide Hackathon.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - April 2022

As the calendar turns to May it’s time to update everyone on what happened during the last month in the Kitchen, and it’s an understatement to say that things happened!

Let Marinade's on-chain governance begin!

Marinade’s new Head of Governance shares the latest in the DAO’s on-chain voting.

Marinade's Solana Validator Spotlight: CogentCrypto

Validators are the hidden stars of the Solana Blockchain. Together they make up a growing network of 1,500-plus nodes around the world that validate block after block and ensure the security and censorship resistance of over 60,000 transactions per second.

How to earn staking rewards from your SOL on Robinhood

Robinhood centralized exchange just announced SOL trading. Here is how easy it is to start earning staking rewards on your tokens.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - March 2022

It has been more than a month since our last Kitchen updates and we know that you are always curious to learn more about Marinade and the work that is being done in the Kitchen. For this reason, it’s time to dive into what happened this past month!

Marinade announces the launch of on-chain DAO governance thru NFTs

With tremendous joy, the Marinade Chefs are pleased to officially announce the next chapter: the beginning of on-chain governance for Marinade DAO.

Marinade, the leading liquid staking protocol on Solana, announces ecosystem token exchange program

This letter serves to announce, in a transparent and public way, Marinade’s intent to exchange a portion of the DAO treasury among the builders of Solana to promote alignment and accelerate decentralized governance.

Marinade’s Solana Validator Spotlight: Laine

What drives Solana’s prosperity as a leading, mass-adopted Layer-1 blockchain? Its novel Proof-of-History design that enables lightning fast transactions at an unmatched scale of 65,000 transactions per second.

How Marinade and Hubble Protocol Supercharge Solana decentralization

From the very beginning, Marinade has been committed to Solana decentralization. It’s a core goal of our 2022 roadmap and will even drive governance festivals.

How Marinade’s MNDE will fuel on-chain DAO governance

Marinade is on a mission to make Solana open, decentralized and secure. To succeed, Marinade itself must also become decentralized.

Marinade delegation strategy: A guide for validators

Marinade has an important and symbiotic relationship with the validator community. Marinade needs strong, geographically-distributed validators to ensure the decentralization of Solana and validators can benefit by receiving delegated stake from Marinade. Marinade currently delegates stake across over 450 validators and aims to incentivize the growth of the validator set through distributing even more SOL stake as it grows.

mSOL 101: How to get started with liquid staking on Solana

Solana’s SOL token has enjoyed a wide adoption throughout crypto since its launch thanks to its ease of use, its expanding utility and growing ways to earn yield.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - February 24, 2022

The Chefs have returned with an update on all things Marinade. The amount of building and milestones across Solana continues to persevere.

Cooking with governance: Introducing Marinade Non-fungible Chefs

Now that Marinade has revealed its grand menu for 2022,it is time to focus on the latest details surrounding MNDE, the governance token.

Marinade and Alpha League Racing rev up the Solana metaverse

Communities that play together, stay together. And fortunately for Marinade, being part of the Solana ecosystem means a growing number of thrilling and social metaverse and P2E Games and NFT opportunities to deliver to our Marinators.

A glimpse towards the end of 2022…

Time flies way too fast in crypto. So making long-term projections or a multi-year roadmap doesn’t work.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - February 6, 2022

February may be the year’s shortest month, but in the Solana world, you can jam what feels like a month’s worth of big news into just one week.

Marinade’s sponsored prize for the Solana Riptide Hackathon 2022

Marinade is entering February in building mode but also with a sense of reflection. It was less than a year ago at the Solana x Serum DeFi IGNITION Hackathon when the Marinade vision began.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - January 21, 2022

It’s been an exciting and busy January in the kitchen, highlighted by a wave of partnership and integrations announced and launched.

Meet Marinade’s ecosystem partners: SonarWatch

One of the main features of the mSOL token since the launch of Marinade Finance is its wide adoption throughout Solana’s growing DeFi ecosystem.

Marinade Kitchen Stories - January 8, 2022

Happy New Year from Marinade! I hope you all enjoyed your winter break and came back fully rested and ready to attack what is a promising 2022.

Setting Security Standards: Marinade is upgrading a smart contract

In DeFi, smart contracts are often created with an authority able to apply modifications to the code, a feature that might be crucial in the future of a protocol.

Building a new brand to represent what Marinade is all about

In the coming weeks, we’re launching our new brand that represents our warm, strong and diversified community. You might have already seen bits and pieces of it here and there, in our Twitter announcements, as stickers in our Discord, or in other places of the Marinade universe. As you read this article, we’re in the midst of preparing to roll out our website and we wanted to share more about what’s happening and why.

Meet the first NFT projects staking their treasury with Marinade!

NFTs have generated a lot of hype these past few months with many projects selling out while growing huge treasuries from minting and royalties on secondary sales.

An update from the kitchen - December

With our team growing larger, we started feeling the need to communicate more efficiently between the different workgroups and to our users

Announcing Marinade Bug Bounty

Marinade's Bug Bounty program is officialy launched!

Launching MNDE: How was it and what’s next?

A lot has happened in the past few weeks around Marinade, so it’s about time to give a summary

Marinade is sponsoring a mSOL/USD Chainlink Price Feed

Marinade is pleased to announce that it will be sponsoring a new mSOL/USD Chainlink price feed on the Solana Blockchain.

Marinade AMA — Minutes of the Open Kitchen

On October 15th, Marinade organized its first AMA (Ask me anything).

MNDE Launch: Serving the Tastiest Token

More than 2 million SOL is now being staked through Marinade Finance, and the cooks are extremely happy for the trust and participation from all the stakers who took part. We are finally ready to launch our main course: MNDE. Here’s what to expect from the token distribution and what you need to know.

Why We Take it Slow — Security First

Marinade recently blew past $300M in TVL and is nearing 3M SOL staked. While it might seem like rapid growth — and it certainly is — let’s take a closer look.

Introducing MNDE — Marinade’s secret sauce

While it’s only been a month since the start, we have all witnessed the exciting growth of Marinade

What a launch!

On the 2nd of August 2021, we pressed the button and launched Marinade, the liquid staking for Solana, on mainnet.

Ordering off the best menu on Solana

We get it. You must be quite hungry by now. We’ve been promising the launch of liquid staking for Solana on Mainnet since March

Liquid Staking on Solana - Why are we doing what we’re doing?

It’s been more than a month now since we launched the devnet version of Marinade — liquid staking for Solana.

Stronger together

Collaboration over competition is one of the best way to reach success

The first Liquid Staking solution on Solana

In March, Marinade.finance participated in the Solana x Serum DeFi hackathon. As a result, we’ve been able to deliver working prototype of a liquid staking solution for Solana (SOL) tokens.