Understanding Marinade’s non-custodial nature

No, Marinade is a non-custodial protocol. When staking to Marinade and receiving mSOL, you trade the custody of your SOL to receive custody over your received mSOL. With Marinade Native, you retain custody over your SOL at all times.

Marinade is also permissionless, meaning that our bot or our smart contracts can be interacted with by anyone, even in the absence of the team.