Sanctum
9 known investors
Sanctum provides staking infrastructure for the Solana blockchain, including liquid staking tokens (LSTs), white-label validators, and custom LST launches for projects and exchanges. It also offers a liquidity engine for yield on SOL and Web3 DevOps tooling for transaction delivery and RPC request handling.
Also known as @sanctumso · sanctum.so
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Sanctum operates staking infrastructure on the Solana blockchain. Its consumer-facing product lets holders stake SOL and earn yield through liquid staking, powered by what the company calls its liquidity engine; the site advertised an APY of 5.73% for SOL liquid staking. For institutions and projects, Sanctum supports the launch of bespoke staking solutions, including white-label validators and custom liquid staking tokens (LSTs), with the partner earning revenue when users stake SOL through them.
Beyond staking, Sanctum offers Gateway, a transaction delivery service intended to send Solana transactions faster and more reliably, and Ironforge, described as a Web3 DevOps platform. The protocol has also been described as providing a unified liquidity layer for users staking SOL natively or via LSTs, with access to a range of whitelisted LSTs through an Infinity multi-LST liquidity pool.
Business model
Sanctum earns from staking infrastructure it operates and from partner arrangements in which projects and exchanges launch their own validators or LSTs on Sanctum and share in staking revenue; the company reports over $5M in partner revenue. It additionally provides developer-facing services (Gateway transaction delivery and the Ironforge DevOps platform).
Revenue is generated from staking infrastructure and shared with partners that launch validators or LSTs through Sanctum, which the company quantifies as over $5M in partner revenue.
Traction
Company-reported figures include over $5M in partner revenue, 350,000 transactions delivered via Gateway, and 300M requests handled daily by Ironforge, alongside named partners such as Jupiter, Bybit and Drift.
Latest developments
Sanctum published a Q2 2026 edition of its quarterly report covering its rise to the top liquid staking protocol position on Solana.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
Sanctum positions itself as Solana's leading staking infrastructure and states it is the number one liquid staking protocol on Solana, powering some of the network's largest LSTs, validators and applications.
Technology
Liquid staking protocol on Solana built around LSTs and a liquidity engine, including an Infinity multi-LST liquidity pool that provides a unified liquidity layer across natively staked SOL and whitelisted LSTs, plus transaction-delivery (Gateway) and RPC/DevOps (Ironforge) infrastructure.
Go-to-market
Direct staking product for SOL holders combined with partnership-led distribution, onboarding large Solana projects and exchanges — cited examples include Jupiter, Bybit and Drift — to launch white-label validators or custom LSTs. Community and developer channels include a blog, developer alerts, X and Discord.
Retail SOL holders seeking staking yield; Solana projects, applications and centralized exchanges wanting their own LST or white-label validator; and Web3 developers needing transaction delivery and RPC infrastructure.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsSanctum released a new edition of its quarterly report covering how it became the top liquid staking protocol on Solana.
Solana-based liquid staking protocol Sanctum raised $6.1M in a seed funding round led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Solana Ventures, DeFiance Capital, Jump Capital and others.
$6.1M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Sanctumsanctum.so · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Sanctum do?
- Sanctum is a Solana staking infrastructure provider offering liquid staking tokens, white-label validators and transaction delivery tools.
- Who are Sanctum's investors?
- Sanctum's investors include AppWorks Ventures, Equilibrium Ventures.