If you're experiencing issues with the stake or unstake button, please ensure you have enough available SOL. We recommend at least 0.03 SOL to prevent transaction errors.
Open Portfolio in the Marinade app. Your balance card shows two numbers: a dollar figure, and a SOL figure right below or beside it, labelled Available balance. That smaller SOL figure is the one that matters here, and it needs to read at least 0.03 SOL.
You will not be charged 0.03 SOL. That is a balance the app checks before it lets the transaction through, not an amount anyone takes. The actual Solana network fee is well under 0.001 SOL, and the rest stays in your wallet.
Important: This SOL must be available, not staked.
Staked SOL cannot be used to pay transaction fees.
Even when unstaking, the transaction still requires SOL already in Available balance.
If Available balance is below ~0.03 SOL, the stake or unstake button may fail or appear unresponsive.
If needed, transfer at least 0.03 SOL into your wallet from another account or exchange, then check Portfolio again.
Why The Dollar Figure Can Be Misleading
$0.03 worth of SOL is not the same as 0.03 SOL, and the gap between them can be large. If SOL is worth $200, 0.08 SOL shows as roughly $16, comfortably enough. But if you only look at a small dollar figure like $0.08, that is a tiny fraction of the SOL you actually need.
Always read the SOL figure in Available balance, not the dollar figure next to it.
Wallet Connection
Confirm that your wallet extension is properly connected and is updated to the latest version.
For hardware wallets:
Hardware wallets (general): Verify the connection between your hardware wallet and the wallet extension. Make sure both the firmware and the extension are updated to the latest version.
Ledger users: Ensure that blind signing is enabled in your Ledger settings.
Staking Requirements
Please ensure:
Your existing stake account holds at least 1 SOL, which is the Solana minimum for any stake account (no maximum limit).
For Marinade Native, the stake account has finished activating, which completes at the end of the current epoch, about a day.
Note:
Instant Unstake needs a stake account holding at least 1 SOL, so it is not available below that. Delayed Unstake works at any size, including positions under 1 SOL, so a small position is never stuck. mSOL Delayed Unstake has a separate minimum of 1.0043 SOL. Use Max to unstake the whole position.
Alternative Option for Unstaking
If the website is temporarily inaccessible (which is unlikely) and you delegated the stake account yourself, you can unstake directly from your wallet, for example Phantom, to withdraw part or all of your stake.
This does not work for Marinade Native or Marinade Select. Marinade holds the stake authority on those accounts, and deactivating stake is a stake-authority action, so your wallet cannot start the unstake even though the account is visible there.
Your funds are safe. You keep the withdraw authority the whole time, so the SOL is always recoverable.
Start with the wallet connection. Connect with a wallet that works with Marinade, such as Phantom, Solflare or Backpack, then unstake from the Marinade app. If your wallet app no longer connects, such as Exodus, see My Position Is Missing or I Cannot Sign When Using a Wallet App.
Still stuck, or the website will not load? Reach out through the chat on the Marinade website or the Marinade Discord Support channel and the team will help you from there.
