Marinade Native protocol
Overview
Marinade Native, a Solana staking product from Marinade, does not issue a liquid staking token. Participants retain their SOL in individually controlled stake accounts, while Marinade’s delegation strategy automatically allocates and rebalances the stake among a validator set chosen for performance and decentralisation. The product relies on Solana’s native staking primitives rather than a pooling smart contract, which Marinade says eliminates smart-contract risk. No deposit or management fee is charged. Rewards in SOL accumulate in the user’s stake accounts each epoch.
Within The Counterparty graph, Marinade Native connects to 3 tracked entities, most strongly to Solana, MNDE, OtterSec.
Relations
Top connections in The Counterparty knowledge graph (confidence-weighted, 3 of 3 total).
| Relation | Connected entity | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
deployed_on | Solana | 95% |
supports_token | MNDE | 95% |
audited_by | OtterSec | 80% |
Sources
Facts in this record were checked against the following. Where a claim is not covered here, the record states only what the graph holds.
Questions on the record
Who has custody of the SOL?
The staker. Only the staker has withdrawal authority; Marinade manages solely the delegation.
How are validators chosen?
Validators are selected via Marinade's delegation strategy and Stake Auction Marketplace, based on criteria including performance, uptime and decentralisation.