Keep 100% of your staking rewards
No deposit fee, no fee on your epoch rewards — Marinade only charges when you unstake.
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0% deposit fee. Staking with Marinade is free.
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0% on rewards. You keep 100% of what your stake earns, every epoch.
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Fee only on unstake. A flat 0.003 SOL Native delayed-unstake fee (0.2% on Liquid/mSOL), dynamic pricing (0.10–0.40%) for Instant Unstake.
What you'll never pay
No deposit fee. Staking with Marinade is free across Native and Liquid.
No fee on your staking rewards. Your rewards land in full, every epoch (~2 days).
Unstake fees
Marinade charges fees on unstake, not on rewards. This keeps your APY clean and shifts protocol revenue to the moment you actually leave.
Delayed Unstake (1-epoch wait)
Marinade Native charges a flat 0.003 SOL fee. Liquid (mSOL) charges 0.2%.
You get predictable pricing and your SOL back after one epoch.
Instant Unstake
Skip the epoch wait, exit in seconds.
Native positions with any reward type (USDG, USDT, USDC): dynamic pricing, typically 0.10% to 0.40%. The UI quote already includes the total cost, including any spread in $
Liquid (mSOL): no protocol fee. This is a swap rather than a true unstake, so price impact may apply depending on size and liquidity.
Performance fees
None. You keep 100% of staking rewards across SOL staking - Marinade Native and Liquid.
USDC Vault works differently from SOL staking. There's no deposit or withdrawal fee, and Marinade only takes a cut of the yield it generates for you.
5% performance fee on net interest.
E.g.: If your position earns $1,000 in interest, a $50 fee comes off the top and you keep $950. The fee is already reflected in the net APY shown in the UI, so what you see is what you earn.
Where the revenue goes
Protocol revenue is allocated by the Marinade DAO through governance proposals.
After MIP-17, the DAO moved away from automatic MNDE buybacks toward funding liquidity, stability, and long-term growth. Today, revenue supports:
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Liquidity provisioning
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Ecosystem development and operations
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MNDE initiatives, including buybacks when the DAO approves them
You can track every allocation on the Hextech Dashboard and the Marinade Realms Treasury.
