Marinade Native vs Sanctum

Overview

Marinade Native Marinade Native is a non-custodial SOL staking product from Marinade Finance that applies the protocol's automated delegation strategy to plain native stake accounts. The hook: you get Marinade's vali... Sanctum Sanctum is a liquid staking infrastructure protocol on Solana that has created a unified liquidity layer for all liquid staking tokens (LSTs). Rather than competing with individual LST providers, Sanc...

Community Ratings

Sanctum is rated higher by the MadeOnSol community with 4.7/5 stars across 3 reviews, compared to 0.0/5 for Marinade Native (0 reviews). That said, ratings only tell part of the story — what matters most is which tool fits your specific workflow.

Pricing & Value

Marinade Native uses a free model, while Sanctum is free — Free to use. Small fees on LST swaps through the Infinity Pool. No fee to create new LSTs.. Both tools are free, so cost isn't a deciding factor — focus on features and reliability instead.

Key Features

Marinade Native offers 5 features including Non-custodial native stake accounts in your own wallet, Automated multi-validator delegation strategy, Epoch-based scoring for decentralization and performance, and 2 more. Sanctum counters with 7 features including Infinity pool enabling instant swaps between all Solana LSTs, Validator LST program for creating custom branded liquid staking tokens, INF token providing diversified yield across all LSTs in the pool, and 4 more. The right choice depends on which specific features matter for your use case — check the individual review pages for full breakdowns.

Reliability & Health

We monitor both tools around the clock for uptime, SSL validity, and response times. Marinade Native currently has a healthy health status with 99.2% uptime over the last 30 days. Sanctum is rated healthy with 100.0% uptime. For any tool you trust with your funds, trades, or yield, uptime and speed are non-negotiable.

Strengths

Marinade Native's key strengths include full self-custody of staked sol, avoids smart-contract risk entirely, automated rebalancing across vetted validators.