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Marinade native staking overview

Marinade Native: Native SOL staking with automated delegation, no smart contracts or associated risks.

What is Marinade Native? 

Marinade Native is an alternative to liquid staking that helps you benefit from an automated delegation strategy without using a smart contract. Here’s how it’s different from typical liquid staking:

  • No Smart Contract Needed: Marinade Native uses the Solana blockchain’s native features, so there’s no need for a smart contract. You always have full control of your SOL, and only you can withdraw it at any time.

  • No Fees: There are no fees when you stake with Marinade Native—no deposit fee, no ongoing management fee. You can also withdraw for free if you wait through the cooldown period. If you need your SOL instantly, you can pay a small fee based on liquidity availability.

  • No mSOL Token: With Marinade Native, you don’t receive mSOL tokens. Instead, your wallet creates Solana stake accounts that are managed by Marinade.

  • Rewards Directly to You: Since you’re staking natively, any staking rewards go straight to your stake accounts at the end of each epoch (every 2-3 days).

Why use Marinade Native?

Marinade Native offers an optimized delegation strategy that automatically reaches top-performing validators—without any fees. Your staking position is continuously monitored and rebalanced, delegating to the best validators on the network so you don’t have to.

With Marinade Native, you futureproof your staking by always staying with the best validators, even as conditions change. It considers MEV and other revenue sources to find validators who extract and redistribute the most value back to stakers.

It also protects you from risks like commission rugging (validators suddenly increasing commissions to take rewards) and issues with validators going offline or running outdated clients.

As slashing comes to Solana, having Marinade Native rebalance your staked SOL will help mitigate slashing risks by avoiding poorly-performing or malicious validators.

Plus, Marinade Native works with locked SOL—keeping it optimized and automated until it unlocks.