Marinade Finance—Solana’s oldest and most innovative staking provider—shares insights on their recent milestones, including being selected as the exclusive staking provider for the newly proposed Canary Marinade Solana ETF. This ETF is the first of its kind to name a staking provider in its SEC filing, marking what Marinade calls “a major milestone for Solana” and “a defining moment for institutional staking”.
Topics Covered Plus More!
Institutional Momentum: How the ETF structure and Marinade’s role could unlock billions in institutional capital, accelerating Solana’s growth and adoption among large-scale investors.
Network Impact: The surge in native staking, up nearly 28% year-to-date, and how Marinade’s Stake Auction Marketplace is driving sustainable, high-yield staking across the Solana ecosystem.
Market Outlook: Paul and the Marinade team analyze Solana’s current $90 billion market cap, the growing total value locked (TVL), and the strong institutional demand reflected in record-high futures and derivatives activity

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Guest: Hadley Stern - Chief Commercial Officer of Marinade 
Marinade Website ➜  https://marinade.finance

00:00 Intro
00:18 Sponsor Tangem
01:33 Institutional ETF demand rising
03:21 xStocksFi
05:00 What is Marinade?
07:05 Staking
09:15 no JITO?
10:41 Marinade Select
13:10 Growth
14:23 Retail vs Institutional staking
16:00 CLIP - Coinbase Institution: Thoughts on Big tech buying crypto companies?
18:30 CLIP - Coinbase Institution: Public companies buying DeFi protocols
20:35 KYC dilemma
23:23 Outro
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