Marinade Staked SOL

Marinade Staked SOL is a staking token built around Solana, meant for people who want exposure to SOL without leaving it idle. By our assessment, its main virtue is that it wraps staking into something easier to move and use than raw locked staking. The catch is that this extra layer adds protocol risk on top of Solana risk, so the user is trusting both the chain and the staking setup. In practice, these tokens tend to feel neat when everything is working: the balance represents something earning yield, but the mechanics are still more complex than a normal wallet holding. Marinade Staked SOL sits between a base asset and a DeFi wrapper, which is useful, but never as straightforward as holding plain SOL. It is for people who understand staking already, not for anyone looking for a simple cash substitute.