Sanctum stands as the most influential liquid staking protocol on Solana, drawing in a wide range of participants such as retail users, validators, and institutions. By guiding Solana toward an infinite-LST future, it allows enterprise clients—businesses collaborating with Sanctum to issue white-label, custom-configured liquid staking tokens—to access a robust unified liquidity layer. The project’s mission is to demonstrate that crypto’s greatest successes stem from ethical, useful products rather than hype or scams. Operating with integrity, transparency, and love, the team aims to provide genuine value to actual users. Sanctum intends to construct the foundational infrastructure necessary to shift crypto from speculation to utility, creating essential tools for global onboarding. They are bringing the Cloudfam along via CLOUD.

CLOUD serves as the governance token for the Sanctum ecosystem, bringing together builders, stakers, and contributors.

Holders have the ability to:

• Engage in governance – Influence the future of Sanctum through decentralized voting processes.
• Aid ecosystem expansion – CLOUD is central to organizing contributors and financing various projects.
• Become part of the Cloudfam – Access the Sanctum community more closely through exclusive calls, events, and private conversations.
• Demonstrate your principles – CLOUD stands for transparency, fairness, and the collaborative creation of an improved on-chain landscape.

More than just a digital asset, CLOUD offers a sense of belonging to a purposeful movement.

CLOUD does not stand for a specific acronym. Instead, holding the token signifies membership in a crypto project, ecosystem, and community dedicated to ethical practices. This group rejects unfair tactics such as equity siphoning, off-market deals, bots, or manufactured hype. Whereas many tokens serve primarily as instruments for speculation, CLOUD acts as a vehicle for conviction that the crypto industry can achieve higher standards.

CLOUD holders participate in governance via Funtarchy, a mechanism where users buy or sell tokens based on their confidence in how a proposal will affect Sanctum’s success. When a proposal is approved—viewed as bullish by the community—those who voted bullish purchase CLOUD at a discounted rate, whereas bearish voters have the option to sell. If a proposal fails to pass, all funds are returned.

This approach incentivizes correct forecasting and ensures token ownership reflects Sanctum’s direction, enabling holders to shape decisions on matters such as token distribution plans or upcoming incentive schemes like Wonderland S2. Participants can also debate proposals on Sanctum’s Discord and Research forums, creating an environment for collaboration where users either profit from accurate predictions or gain insights from the governance experience.

Sanctum provides a comprehensive set of tools for both individual and institutional users to improve liquid staking on Solana.

For retail participants, the primary service allows staking SOL to obtain Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) that generate rewards and function within DeFi protocols. Its leading product, Infinity, employs an actively managed collection of top-performing LSTs to maximize yields and collect trading fees from a multi-asset liquidity pool that supports zero-price-impact swaps between LSTs. Holders receive INF tokens, which reflect their portion of the Infinity pool and increase in value against SOL as rewards accumulate; these tokens are usable in DeFi or can be exchanged immediately.

For enterprise clients, Sanctum stands as the sole liquid staking provider on Solana permitting teams to create and retain ownership of a branded LST, featuring tailored validator logic, specific redemption conditions, and extensive DeFi connectivity.

The group behind Sanctum has been developing on Solana since 2021. They helped implement the stake pool program at Solana Labs, which is now known as Agave. Following the launch of their own stake pool branded as Socean, the team shifted its focus to supplying liquid staking infrastructure. This pivot established Sanctum as a key Solana LST protocol and one of the top-5 Solana DeFi protocols by TVL.