Anchorage Expands Solana Staking with Marinade-Powered Strategies

Anchorage Digital has integrated Marinade Finance to let institutional clients stake Solana (SOL) directly through Anchorage’s custody and wallet infrastructure. The move brings Marinade’s automated validator strategies into Anchorage’s platform, enabling stake deployment and yield generation without relinquishing asset control or leaving the custody environment.

In its Thursday announcement, Anchorage explained that the integration provides clients with access to Marinade’s staking capabilities within Anchorage’s custody stack and its Porto self-custody wallet. The arrangement is designed to keep staking and withdrawal rights distinct, allowing institutions to influence validator selection and earn staking rewards while retaining custody of their assets.

Institutions can choose between two distinct staking paths: a curated strategy that allocates SOL across roughly 30 KYC-verified validators for compliance-centric use cases (including regulated products like ETFs), and a dynamic strategy that spreads stake across hundreds of operators to optimize yield.

The two options sit inside Anchorage’s unified interface for staking, custody, and asset management via the Porto wallet. Key takeaways Institutions can stake Solana through Anchorage’s custody platform with Marinade’s automated strategies, without moving assets out of custody. Two distinct staking approaches are offered: a compliance-focused, curated validator set (~30 validators) and a broader, yield-driven set across hundreds of operators.

The integration consolidates staking, custody, and asset management in a single interface via Anchorage’s Porto wallet. This move is part of a broader pattern of custodial yield strategies, as institutions seek crypto yields while keeping assets under professional custody. Anchorage’s Marinade integration explained Anchorage Digital, a San Francisco-based custodian that operates what is described as the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, is extending its custody capabilities to Solana staking through Marinade Finance.

The arrangement lets institutional clients delegate stake and earn rewards through Marinade’s governance-enabled validators while Anchorage maintains control over private keys and custody arrangements. The setup explicitly separates the act of staking delegation from withdrawal rights, a distinction designed to reduce operational friction for institutions while preserving asset security.

The Marinade integration sits inside Anchorage’s existing platform and Porto wallet, where staking, custody, and asset management are unified. This reduces the need for clients to juggle multiple apps or custodial interfaces and aligns staking activity with traditional custody workflows.

Anchorage’s public filing notes that the bank has been exploring strategic options, including a potential fundraising round of $200 million to $400 million as it considers a broader path toward an initial public offering in the coming year. This context underscores the growing interest from institutional players in custody-first solutions that enable yield generation without compromising control over digital assets.

A broader trend: custody-led yield across assets The Marinade move reflects a wider industry push to offer yield-generating capabilities on crypto holdings without moving assets out of custody. Recent months have seen several similar evolutions in the space. Ripple expanded its institutional custody stack by integrating with Securosys and Figment, enabling banks and custodians to offer staking without managing validators or keys directly.

The integration supports on-premises and cloud deployments with built-in compliance checks, illustrating how custody platforms are shifting toward more automated staking workflows. Meanwhile, Anchorage itself expanded into restaking on Ethereum through a partnership with Puffer Finance, enabling institutions to stake ETH and receive pufETH—a transferable token representing a restaked position that continues earning rewards.