Stake Pools

How stake pools work and how to leverage stake pools to grow your validator stake

There are multiple stake pools in Solana, with the largest ones being JitoSOL, mSOL and BlazeSOL. They offer transparent ways to compete for their delegated stake and have clear parameters we need to match.

Stake Pools work by acting as middle men between direct stakers and validators. They collect stake from direct stakers and distribute that stake to a set of validators they select based on their performance criteria, and charge a fee for this service to the stakers.

Jito StakeNet

1. Delegation Scoring and Selection

2. Qualification: be in the top 200 perf of the Jito Leaderboard. This most likely requires the validator to run mods for early voting.

3. No bribing

Edgevana Stake Pool

1. Need to rent servers from them: https://nodes.edgevana.com/launch

2. https://stake.edgevana.com/

3. Rankings: https://stake.edgevana.com/validators

Marinade Stake Pool

1. Delegation Scoring and Selection

2. Strategy

3. Additional insurance through Protected Staking Rewards (PSR)

4. The Stake Auction Marketplace with max_yield ranking

5. Bribes with MNDE

Blaze Stake Pool

1. Get delegated stake from the SolBlaze Pool

   1. Delegation Scoring and Selection

   2. Validator Requirements

   3. Bribes with BLZE

JPool Stake Pool

1. How to join the JPool Delegation Program

2. Ranking

3. No bribing

Aero Stake Pool

https://www.aeropool.io/