Glossary
Marinade
Solana's original liquid-staking protocol — issues mSOL against SOL delegated across a decentralized validator set, with native and stake-pool variants.
Marinade launched on Solana in 2021 with two products. Marinade Liquid Stake (mSOL) is the LST: deposit SOL, receive mSOL, redeem back to SOL or instant-unstake at a small fee. Marinade Native delegates SOL directly to validators without minting an LST, giving users the maximum native staking yield with non-custodial control.
mSOL is widely used as DeFi collateral across Solana lending markets and DEXes. Marinade's validator-set algorithm deliberately spreads delegation across many small operators to support decentralization.