On-chain Contracts
A list of Marinade's on-chain smart contracts is available here:
Contracts & Tokens Addresses
The partner referral program is paused, so there is no referral contract to interact with today. Before the pause, staking through a referral link meant interacting with the referral program contract rather than Marinade's main smart contract. Whichever contract you interact with, verify it against the list above.
Risks
When you participate in DeFi, you always expose yourself to risks. An investor's job is to mitigate these risks and stay informed on them to make the best possible decisions. Let's see what different types of risk exist when you use Marinade and how we worked to mitigate them.
Technical Risks
Blockchain Risks
When you use Marinade.Finance, you use a protocol that relies on the Solana blockchain. If the Solana blockchain were to be attacked successfully, the funds on Marinade could be at risk.
Marinade's recipe: Solana was chosen for many reasons, one of which was that it has high security. Solana has been audited by Kudelski Security and is a blockchain that operates with a hybrid consensus mechanism (integrating Tower BFT and Proof-of-History). You can learn more about Solana through their whitepaper.
Contract Risks
In DeFi, any protocol can potentially be attacked by hackers. They will look for loopholes and bugs that allow them to abuse the protocol for their gain.
Marinade's recipe: We emphasize security and have been conducting formal audits all along the way. We have successfully completed 6 audits and 1 code review, the most recent by Neodyme in May 2026. We also run a bug bounty on Immunefi covering the liquid staking program (liquid-staking-program). Critical findings pay up to $250k. Click on the pages below to access them.
Financial Risks
Trust Risks
As you may know, DeFi can be a brutal environment, and some actors have already abused the trust of people using their services. We did not want this to be a possibility with our protocol.
Marinade's recipe: Marinade is governed by multisig. No single party can change the protocol on their own. Any major change to our main multisig requires signatures from several independent parties across the Solana ecosystem. The current members and the signing threshold are published in our documentation.
Legal Risks
When you use Marinade, you take full responsibility for your actions. It is your duty as an investor to check the current regulations in your country of residence and to act accordingly.
Marinade's recipe: All our legal content can be found on the page below. If you have any doubts, please get in touch with your financial authorities for confirmation.
