State Layer: Validators and Infrastructure
summary
Solana reports 78% of SOL staked, roughly 396M SOL across ~380,000 stake accounts and $99B claimed locked, secured by 1,158 validators in 197 data centers across 32 countries; the top 19 validators hold >33% of stake. On-chain stake pools mint derivative tokens, automate delegation and rebalance, and plug into DeFi to increase validator inclusion and reduce user friction. Community pools are live (four community pools plus foundation bootstrapping), Marinade stakes to 400+ validators with ~7M SOL, and Lido runs ~15 uniformly weighted validators.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00State of staking on Solana
- 4:47The role of stake pools
- 9:42Introducing Lido and Marinade
- 15:50Utility and DeFi integration
- 19:13Validator diversity strategies
- 24:33The future of stake pools
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