Marinade.Finance is a staking protocol built on Solana. You can stake your SOL tokens with Marinade using an automated staking strategy expertly designed by the Marinade core team with influence from MNDE and mSOL holders. Users of Marinade can stake natively or liquid stake to the same pool of 100+ high-performing Solana validators. When native staking with Marinade, there is no smart contract interaction, while when liquid staking you receive an equivalent value of "marinated SOL" tokens (mSOL) that you can use in decentralized finance (DeFi). Since July 2023, you can also use Marinade Native to benefit from the automated delegation strategy with your natively staked SOL, without having to use any smart contract.

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