Provider at a glance
- Category
- Liquid Staking
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- marinade.finance
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 81 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read on file.
Marinade
Solana liquid staking
Liquid Staking
#2 Overall
Ranked #2 of 11 liquid staking in the published ranking
81
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
- $0.00 commission/yr
Is Marinade right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Unstake path8/10, the category best
- Commission10/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Peg stability7/10 here; Lido scores 9
- Operator set7/10 here; StakeWise scores 9
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What will Marinade cost you?
$0.00 commission/yr
The fee alone, plus withdrawal fees and network gas.
- Your stake
- $32k
- Expected gross yield
- 5%
- Commission on rewards
- 0%
How safe is Marinade?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Marinade
Compare all 4- 1Jito2 points above · stronger on peg stability (8 against 7)83$64
- 3Lido2 points below · stronger on peg stability (9 against 7)79$160
- 4StakeWise11 points below · stronger on operator set (9 against 7)70$80
For your setup
Find out if Marinade fits you
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Why this rank
Why Marinade ranks #2
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (25.2 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 2 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
288+7.176.08#1/11Loading evidence…
267+5.825.09#3/11Loading evidence…
267+5.824.010#3/11Loading evidence…
2010+6.406.010#1/11Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−2behind Jito, #1
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 80–83 and ranks #1–#2
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Marinade’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Redemption mechanics 8 → 9 on its ladder · passes Jito+183#2 → #1
Peg resilience & exit depth 7 → 8 on its ladder · passes Jito+183#2 → #1
Operator decentralisation 7 → 8 on its ladder · passes Jito+183#2 → #1
Redemption mechanics 8 → 6 on its ladder · Lido passes it−278#2 → #3
Peg resilience & exit depth 7 → 5 on its ladder · Lido passes it−278#2 → #3
Operator decentralisation 7 → 5 on its ladder · Lido passes it−278#2 → #3
Smallest climb: redemption mechanics 8 → 9 passes Jito, #1.
Strengths
2 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Redemption mechanics — 8/10, the category best
- Commission take-rate — 10/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
2 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Peg resilience & exit depth — 7/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Operator decentralisation — 7/10 against a category best of 10/10
Record watch-outs
- Solana-only — not the right pick for ETH staking
- Less MEV-led than newer Solana LST entrants
Competitive position
Where Marinade leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 1120.0 of 20 · pool best
Published criteria#2 / 1118.9 of 30 · best 19.5
Friction#2 / 112.7 of 10 · best 7.3
Trust record#1 / 113.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#4 / 116.9 of 18 · best 9.7
Where Marinade leads
- Redemption mechanics#1 / 11
- Peg resilience & exit depth#3 / 11
- Operator decentralisation#3 / 11
- Commission take-rate#1 / 11
Where it trailsNo criterion in the bottom third of its pool.
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Jito#1 of 11 · score 83 · 2.0 points ahead
Marinade leads onNo scored criterion
Jito leads on
- Peg resilience & exit depth8 vs 7
Largest single reason Jito is ahead: published criteria (+1.6 display points).Scenario cost: not compared, since Marinade's figure is the fee alone, plus withdrawal fees and network gas.
Lido#3 of 11 · score 79 · 2.0 points behind
Marinade leads on
- Operator decentralisation7 vs 4
- Commission take-rate10 vs 6
Lido leads on
- Peg resilience & exit depth9 vs 7
Largest single reason Marinade is ahead: published criteria (+6.5 display points).Scenario cost: not compared, since Marinade's figure is the fee alone, plus withdrawal fees and network gas.
StakeWise#4 of 11 · score 70 · 11.0 points behind
Marinade leads on
- Redemption mechanics8 vs 6
- Peg resilience & exit depth7 vs 4
- Commission take-rate10 vs 5
StakeWise leads on
- Operator decentralisation9 vs 7
Largest single reason Marinade is ahead: published criteria (+11.4 display points).Scenario cost: not compared, since Marinade's figure is the fee alone, plus withdrawal fees and network gas.
Against the leader
83 vs 81 · gap 2.0Why Jito ranks above Marinade
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 2.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisJitoGap share
Availability · 23% weight20.020.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight18.919.5−1.6, worse
Friction · 12% weight2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight6.96.9same
Published criterionThisJitoPoints
Peg resilience & exit depth · w2678−0.83, worse
Net8183−2.0
Your scenario
What Marinade costs on your scenario
The operator's cut of the rewards your stake earns — not a fee on the stake itself. Gross yield is your assumption, not ours. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
commission/yr · default scenario — set your own
Your stake · your input$32k
Expected gross yield · your input5%
Commission on rewards · published rate0%
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 30 September 2026.
commission/yrCost is stated as commission/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
$0.00
The fee alone, plus withdrawal fees and network gas: not a total, and never compared as one.Under the default inputs · USDCategory median$16010 of 11 rows priced
Cheapest priced$64 · JitoDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filterCompare with Jito
1 of 11 quote a zero fee that leaves costs out, so they are absent from the median and the cheapest row, not counted as free.
Evidence
No evidence reading date recorded
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #1 to #2 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Redemption mechanicsstrength 8 · weight 28Report an error——
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Peg resilience & exit depthstrength 7 · weight 26Report an error——
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Operator decentralisationstrength 7 · weight 26Report an error——
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Commission take-ratestrength 10 · weight 20Report an error——
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Verification failure (Marinade 7/10): an invalid state or transfer is accepted.Scored by Operator decentralisation · 26%
- Exit failure: you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by Redemption mechanics · 28% (Marinade 8/10)Scored by Peg resilience & exit depth · 26% (Marinade 7/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Control failure, Insolvency failure, Regulatory failure, Execution failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Commission take-rate (20%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- "Marinade does not charge stakers a performance fee on staking rewards." — Marinade Fees and Pricing page (docs.marinade.finance, fetched 30 September 2026), which states the stake pool's on-chain reward_fee is 0 and that "Protocol revenue comes from the Stake Auction Marketplace, where validators bid for stake, and from exit fees, rather than from a cut of the yield delivered to stakers." Exit costs for mSOL: Delayed Unstake takes 0.2% (20 bps) of the amount unstaked and settles after about one epoch (about 2 days); the instant route has no Marinade fee when it swaps through Jupiter (market spread applies) and charges 0.03% to 1.5% on Marinade's own liquidity-pool route, rising as the pool is drawn down. No deposit fee. Solana network fees apply.Marinade — official page at docs.marinade.finance ↗ · 30 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDMarinade — official page at docs.marinade.finance ↗ · 30 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- minimal
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Solana
- Markets served
- us, europe, global
- Primary markets
- Global Solana stakers, Solana DeFi participants
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Stake is delegated through Marinade's open Stake Auction Market, where validators bid for it; unstake via DEX swap or delayed native unstake.
- Availability note
- Protocol access is globally available onchain.
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- currentCurrent verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 81, #2 of 11. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt liquid_staking:marinade:2026.10.18:519206225f87
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