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• Marinade Finance will reward Solana holders who stake SOL by way of its liquid protocol.
• The incentive program will run for the subsequent 12 months and see the plaform provide up to 160 million native Marinade tokens.
• The aim is to develop Solana TVL by 40 million SOL, and liquid staking is essential to that.

Marinade Finance, a liquid staking platform that helps the Solana blockchain, is trying to convey extra liquidity to the Solana ecosystem by way of a significant incentive program.

The protocol famous in an announcement that this system “Open Doors” is designed to incentivise Solana builders, validators and wallets into growing the blockchain platform’s asset liquidity. 

Accordingly, Marinade is trying to provide rewards within the type of its tokens to customers who contribute to rising the whole worth locked (TVL) of Solana on the protocol.

Marinade Finance’s 12-month incentive program for Solana

Over the subsequent 12 months, customers have an opportunity to earn among the 160 million Marinade (MNDE) tokens after they deposit SOL for mSOL, the liquid staking token they are going to get in change. The goal is to get 40 million SOL staked for mSOL, – a state of affairs that would considerably enhance the ecosystem’s liquidity and assist with decentralisation.

Currently, solely 2-3% of SOL is reportedly in liquid staking, which makes the plan to have extra introduced into the ecosystem essential for Solana. This is as a result of staked SOL doesn’t contribute to Solana’s DeFi TVL. However, mSOL’s liquid stake does because it flows throughout totally different protocols. 

As for decentralisation, Marinade helps a whole lot of validators staking by its delegation technique.

“For Solana DeFi to rebound stronger, more $SOL (LOTS MORE) must be made liquid. Those who contribute this through $mSOL, on their protocols, or via the referral program will be rewarded with direct Marinade ownership,” the Marinade crew mentioned.

According to data from DeFiLlama, the Solana chain has about $278 million in TVL as of 25 January 2023, down from over $10 billion in November 2021. More than 53% of the whole TVL on this chain is on Marinade Finance, whereas Lido’s liquid staking accounts for the second-largest share.