Meria joins Marinade Select’s institutional SOL staking program

Meria joins Marinade Select: institutional-grade SOL staking on Solana

As the institutional adoption of digital assets keeps on growing, staking infrastructure is becoming a strategic topic for professional investors, custodians, exchanges and asset managers.

On Solana specifically, staking plays a central role regarding network security, validator decentralization and ecosystem resilience. But when it comes to institutions, staking is not only about rewards. It also requires transparency, custody control, operational reliability and stronger compliance standards.

Meria is now joining Marinade Select, Marinade Finance’s curated institutional staking solution on Solana. Through this program, Meria will progressively receive SOL stake delegation from Marinade’s institutional distribution pipeline, dedicated to professional validator operators meeting specific performance and compliance requirements.

Table of contents:
1.What is Marinade Finance?
2. What is Marinade Select?
3. Why is Marinade Select built for institutions?
4. Meria joins Marinade Select as a validator
5. Marinade Select: key takeaways

1. What is Marinade Finance?

Marinade Finance is one of the leading staking protocols in the Solana ecosystem. In a few words, its goal is to make SOL staking more efficient, transparent and accessible by connecting stakers with high-quality validators.

Marinade offers several staking solutions, including Marinade Native, Marinade Max Yield and Marinade Select. Each product is designed for a specific type of staking strategy, from broad native staking to more curated institutional delegation.

With Marinade, users and institutions can stake SOL while keeping control of their assets, without relying on a liquid staking token or adding unnecessary smart contract risk.

2. What is Marinade Select?

Marinade Select is Marinade’s institutional staking program, designed for validators and stakers who need more transparency, trust and reliability.

The product is built on Marinade’s auction-based delegation system: validators compete to receive SOL stake by offering attractive performance and economics. Marinade then allocates stake to selected validators based on clear criteria.

With Marinade Select, this model is applied to a more curated validator set. Validators are known entities, reviewed by Marinade itself, and must meet specific standards regarding identity, performance, compliance and operational reliability.

This system makes it particularly relevant for institutions looking to delegate SOL through a trusted, transparent and more controlled staking framework.

3. Why is Marinade Select built for institutions?

For institutions, staking requires more than attractive APYs.

Professional investors and custodians need infrastructure that fits internal risk frameworks, custody requirements and operational due diligence processes. They need to understand where assets are delegated, who operates the validator infrastructure, and how risk is managed.

Marinade Select addresses these needs by combining native Solana staking with a curated validator set. This allows institutions to access Solana staking while maintaining greater visibility and control.

Marinade’s institutional ecosystem is also connected with leading custody and infrastructure providers such as BitGo, Zodia Custody, Copper and Anchorage Digital. These integrations help institutions access SOL staking through trusted operational frameworks, while keeping custody and compliance requirements at the heart of the process.

4. Meria joins Marinade Select as a validator

Meria has been accepted into Marinade Select as a professional validator operator.

Through this program, we will progressively receive institutional SOL stake delegation from Marinade’s distribution pipeline. This allocation is designed to grow over time as new institutional stake enters the program.

This collaboration is a strong recognition of our validator infrastructure and our commitment to the Solana ecosystem.

Our role consist of operating reliable validator infrastructure, maintaining strong performance and contributing to a healthier, more decentralized Solana validator set.

Joining Marinade Select also strengthens our position as an institutional staking infrastructure provider. As more professional capital enters proof-of-stake networks, validators need to combine technical reliability, operational discipline and regulatory awareness.

Our participation in Marinade Select reflects this evolution.

5. Marinade Select: key takeaways

Marinade Select is Marinade Finance’s curated institutional staking solution on Solana, which give institutions access to a selected group of verified validators with strong performance standards and a zero-tolerance approach to malicious MEV.

Via Marinade Select, Meria will progressively receive SOL stake delegation from Marinade’s institutional distribution pipeline.

Marinade’s institutional ecosystem is connected with major custody and infrastructure providers such as BitGo, Zodia Custody, Copper and Anchorage Digital. Joining Marinade Select marks a new step in our institutional staking strategy on Solana and reinforces our role as a validator infrastructure provider for leading proof-of-stake networks. We also keep on supporting the development of secure, transparent and institution-ready staking infrastructure for the Solana ecosystem.