Why your SOL shouldn't sit idle
Idle SOL earns nothing while the network keeps issuing rewards every epoch — and you don't have to pick validators to capture them.
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Always delegated to the best validators. Marinade automatically delegates your SOL to the top-performing validators, every epoch.
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Protected against validator failure. PSR covers losses from downtime or commission changes, automatically.
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Exit anytime. Instant Unstake returns your SOL in seconds. No lockups.
Idle SOL is a slow loss
SOL sitting in a wallet earns nothing. The network keeps issuing rewards every epoch through inflation, MEV, and priority fees, and stakers capture them. Non-stakers don't, their share of the network shrinks each epoch.
Staking should be a default. The question is just where you stake.
Marinade always stakes to the best validators
Most staking forces a choice: pick a validator, hope they perform, and switch if they don't. That means monitoring uptime, commission changes, and MEV setup yourself, every epoch.
Marinade removes the choice. Your SOL is automatically delegated to the top-performing validators in the network, and rebalanced every epoch as performance shifts. You don't pick. You don't monitor. You don't switch.
How the marketplace works
Delegation runs through SAM, the Stake Auction Marketplace. Validators bid for stake by sharing part of their revenue, block rewards, priority fees, and other streams, back to stakers. Marinade ranks them by total yield (base rate plus bid) and delegates to the highest-yielding ones automatically.
The result: yields that consistently beat staking with a single validator, including 0% commission ones. You earn the base Solana rate plus whatever validators are paying to attract delegation.
Protected against the downtime
Higher yield usually means higher risk. PSR removes the main one.
Protected Staking Rewards (PSR) is an on-chain bond every Marinade validator must post. If a validator underperforms, through downtime, raised commission, or other issues, the bond covers the lost rewards. The settlement lands in your stake automatically.
Without PSR, a validator going down for a few hours can quietly cost you a chunk of an epoch's rewards. With PSR, that loss is reimbursed.
You get the upside of a competitive validator marketplace without the downside of picking the wrong one.
Liquidity without lockup
Most staking forces a tradeoff: yield or liquidity. Marinade let's you instantly unstake from any validator.
Instant Unstake returns your SOL in seconds, from any validator, with no liquid token required. Dynamic pricing (typically 0.10–0.40%) reflects the live market, so you always see the true cost before you confirm.
Delayed Unstake is the standard path: a flat 0.003 SOL fee, your SOL back after one epoch.
Either way, your stake is never locked.
Without smart contract risk
Marinade Native runs entirely on native staking. Your SOL stays in your own stake accounts the whole time. No pool, no wrapper, no custody, no smart contract exposure.
You get the yield of an active position with the safety of self-custody.
