Marinade Select: Unlocking Institutional Staking on Solana

A New Chapter for Institutional Staking on Solana

Staking Solana is a growing area of interest for custodians, exchanges, investors and other organizations, but for many institutional teams, getting compliance and risk approval is a challenge. Custody concerns, unclear validator metrics, and a lack of transparency have all slowed their participation.

Meanwhile, Marinade’s mission has always been to unlock permissionless staking for everyone — from retail users to world-class institutions. And so Marinade Select arrives, a new staking solution purpose-built for the needs of institutional teams.

👉 Marinade Select is now live on app.marinade.finance.

What Is Marinade Select?

Marinade Select introduces a new way to stake Solana through a vetted set of validators, each of whom has undergone:

• KYC & structured onboarding.
• Signed agreements covering uptime, security, and transparency.
• Ongoing compliance reviews and reporting.

Select allows institutional players — treasury managers, custodian leads, and crypto product teams — to delegate their Solana with confidence, without compromising on decentralization or custody. Funds remain in your control at all times, staking rewards remain competitive, and validator quality is measurable and enforceable.

Canary Marinade Solana ETF to name Marinade Select as its exclusive staking provider.

Why This Matters? The Rise of Institutional Staking on Solana

Solana has seen massive inflows of capital and interest — with growing developer traction, record DeFi volumes, and billions in TVL. Yet institutional staking participation has lagged due to structural blockers.

Common concerns raised by internal compliance and risk teams include:

• Who are the validators?
• How is validator performance monitored?
• What does uptime, risk exposure, and slashing potential look like?

Marinade Select was built to answer those questions directly — built in collaboration with some of the top-performing validators and early institutional participants in the Solana ecosystem.

Built for Institutions. Good for the Ecosystem.

By aligning validator transparency with institutional needs, Marinade Select creates a win-win:

• Institutions get control over their SOL, clarity in operations, and all the information required for compliance measures.
• Validators gain stable delegation and incentives for best practices.
• Solana benefits from a more resilient and decentralized validator set.

Whether you’re a fund exploring Solana, a product team integrating staking, or a treasury desk looking for sustainable yield — Marinade Select makes institutional staking viable.

What’s Next

This launch is just the beginning. Marinade Labs team is actively working with validators and staking partners to expand reporting, observability, and onboarding standards. Over time, the believe is that this will become the default staking path for institutional-grade participation in Solana.

Ready to Stake Smarter?

If you're structuring your business, services, and revenue around Solana or thinking about how staking fits into your infrastructure — we’d love to walk you through Marinade Select.

👉 Get started now on app.marinade.finance.

📩 Or reach out to explore how Select can work for your team.

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