Sanctum is a Solana protocol with two core products: an LST router that swaps between any Solana liquid staking tokens at zero slippage, and an infrastructure layer that lets any validator launch their own LST in minutes.
The LST Liquidity Problem
Solana has many liquid staking tokens: mSOL (Marinade), jitoSOL (Jito), bSOL (BlazeStake), JupSOL (Jupiter), and dozens of others. Each LST has its own liquidity pool. Swapping between them (e.g., mSOL → jitoSOL) normally means swapping through SOL as an intermediate, paying two sets of fees.
Sanctum solves this with a unified reserve pool and routing engine. The Sanctum Reserve holds SOL and acts as counterparty for all LST swaps. You swap mSOL → jitoSOL directly, without touching SOL in the middle, at negligible cost.
Infinite LST: Validator-Specific Tokens
Sanctum's deeper innovation is the Infinite LST system. Any Solana validator can use Sanctum's infrastructure to create their own branded LST:
- Validator deploys a Sanctum-powered stake pool (one click)
- Users stake SOL → receive the validator's custom LST (e.g., cloudSOL for a hypothetical cloud validator)
- The LST earns that validator's staking APY
- Users can swap their LST → any other LST or SOL instantly via Sanctum Router
This creates a market for validator differentiation. Validators can attract stakers with higher APY, MEV revenue sharing, governance rights, or community perks — all represented by their unique LST.
JupSOL: The Largest Sanctum LST
JupSOL is Jupiter's community LST, built on Sanctum infrastructure. It delegates stake to high-performance validators and shares a portion of validator revenue with JupSOL holders on top of standard staking APY.
JupSOL also benefits from Jupiter's massive DeFi volume — the validator captures MEV and passes it to stakers. This has made JupSOL one of the highest-yielding LSTs on Solana.
CLOUD Token and INF
Sanctum's native token ecosystem:
INF (Sanctum Infinity Token): A meta-LST — holds a basket of all LSTs in the Sanctum ecosystem. By holding INF, you earn the average yield across all supported LSTs plus Sanctum's trading fees from the router. INF is always redeemable for its underlying LST basket.
CLOUD: Sanctum's governance token, distributed via airdrop to LST holders and liquidity providers. Used for governance and ecosystem incentives.
How to Use Sanctum
Swap between LSTs: Go to sanctum.so, connect your wallet, select source and destination LSTs, and swap. No intermediate SOL hop, minimal fees.
Stake into INF: Deposit any Solana LST or SOL into INF. You receive a diversified LST position earning across all Sanctum-supported validators.
Explore validators: Browse validator-specific LSTs, compare APYs, and stake directly to validators you want to support.
Why Sanctum Matters for Solana Decentralization
Solana's staking is relatively concentrated — a handful of large validators (exchanges, Jito, Marinade's top choices) receive most stake. Sanctum's validator LST model lowers the bar for smaller validators to attract stake through DeFi composability.
Any validator that launches a Sanctum LST can get their token listed on Jupiter, become collateral on Kamino, and trade in the Sanctum router — giving them a DeFi distribution channel that previously only mega-validators had.