Pushing Solana Staking Forward through Programmable Staking
Staking is foundational to Solana’s security model but despite rapid progress elsewhere in the ecosystem, staking is evolving at a slower pace. Stake remains rigid: fixed lockups, limited liquidity, and few ways to express different risk or time preferences without exiting the validator relationship entirely.
That rigidity creates trade-offs for stakers who want flexibility, and for validators who want more durable, aligned stake.
Simultaneously, independent validators like us are pushing for innovation. This is why we have decided to team up with Pye - a Solana-native programmable staking platform designed to support stake trading and more flexible staking structures over time. This approach allows stake accounts to move beyond static delegation and become composable across the Solana ecosystem as markets form.
What’s programmable staking
Programmable staking introduces a way to express staking positions more granularly, without removing stake from the validator set.
Instead of treating stake as a single, monolithic position, staking can be decomposed into distinct components:
- Principal Token (PT): represents the underlying staked SOL and its lockup
- Reward Token (RT): represents future staking rewards accrued over time
This separation allows staking terms like duration and reward exposure to be managed independently. The stake remains delegated. The validator relationship remains intact. What changes is how future value is expressed and, eventually, transferred.
From a protocol perspective, this creates room for more precise economic design without introducing new trust assumptions or bypassing validators.
How does this improve our services
Being an independent, value-driven operator, we’re not approaching this as a growth or yield play. To us, early participation is about influence and correctness.
Specifically, we’re focused on:
- Stress-testing how programmable stake behaves under real validator conditions
- Helping shape stake and reward market mechanics before liquidity scales further
- Exploring validator-aligned revenue models that don’t depend on dilution or extractive incentives
- Aligning incentives and helping define the future of the Solana protocol economics.
What’s next
Pye is still in beta, with markets forming deliberately before trading functionality is introduced. Trading functionality will come later, once foundations are in place.
We’re excited to contribute feedback, participate in early markets, and help define what the next phase of staking on Solana looks like.
Staking SOL? Delegate it to us!