# Sanctum

> Liquid Staking, Reimagined.

Sanctum is a Solana protocol for LSTs. It offers Infinity, a multi-LST liquidity pool, and tools for LST creation, management, and trading with minimal slippage.

Sanctum is a protocol on the Solana blockchain focused on LSTs. Its core component, Infinity, is a multi-LST liquidity pool enabling efficient swaps between supported LSTs with minimal slippage. The protocol uses a unique pricing mechanism based on stake accounts, allowing it to support numerous LSTs. Users can deposit SOL or whitelisted LSTs to receive INF tokens, representing shares in the pool. Sanctum facilitates LST creation, management, and trading, aiming to improve capital efficiency in the Solana DeFi ecosystem. The protocol integrates with other Solana tools and dynamically adjusts swap fees to maintain target LST allocations.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2023-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/Sanctum

## Products

- [Sanctum protocol](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Sanctum): Sanctum is a protocol on the Solana blockchain focused on LSTs. Its core component, Infinity, is a multi-LST liquidity pool enabling efficient swaps between supported LSTs with minimal slippage. The Sanctum web app provides an interface for users to interact with protocol features, including depositing into the Infinity Pool to receive yield-bearing INF tokens, trading between LSTs and SOL, and managing stake accounts. Infinity uses a unique pricing mechanism based on stake accounts, allowing it to support  (Liquid Staking, Live, Main Product)
- [Creator Coins](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Sanctum): Creator Coins are designed to empower individuals to build, grow, and monetize their communities sustainably. These coins are completely permissionless, unruggable, and enable non-predatory monetization. (Launch Pad, Discontinued)
- [Cloud Card](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Sanctum): Cloud Card is a SOL debit card that enables spending SOL and stablecoins in over 100 countries. Designed with Solana’s composability, it offers a fun and seamless experience for transactions. Integrated with Creator Coins, Cloud Card enhances user engagement and community interaction. (Card, Discontinued)
- [Staking-as-a-Service](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Sanctum): Staking-as-a-Service provides white-label validators and custom liquid staking tokens for Solana protocols, exchanges, and applications. Users can launch fully managed staking solutions without operational overhead, earning from inflation rewards, MEV, block rewards, and staking yield. The service includes dedicated validator infrastructure with 99%+ vote success, customizable delegation strategies, instant liquidity integration, and enterprise-grade security with external audits. (Staking Service, Live)
- [Gateway](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Sanctum): Gateway is a transaction optimization and delivery platform for Solana that enables developers to optimize priority fees, select delivery methods, and monitor transactions in real-time. The system processes raw transaction payloads through configurable optimization parameters including compute unit pricing, delivery method selection via RPC providers, Jito bundles, Triton Cascade, and Paladin, with dynamic parameter adjustment through an observability dashboard without code redeployment. (Developer Tooling, Live)
- [Ironforge](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Sanctum): Ironforge is a Web3 DevOps platform providing RPC routing, observability, and infrastructure management for blockchain applications. The system offers sequential and parallel RPC routing methods across multiple providers, transaction analytics including compute unit monitoring and confirmation rates, incident management via configurable alerts, security controls through firewall rules with rate limiting and IP whitelisting, and comprehensive performance monitoring for blockchain application health. (Developer Tooling, Live)

## Assets

- [Cloud (CLOUD)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Sanctum): CLOUD is the governance token of Sanctum protocol. It is used to vote on partner selection for the Sanctum Verified Partner program, and prospective partners can stake CLOUD to qualify. Holders vote on proposals through Funtarchy governance, a system where they buy or sell CLOUD based on their belief in a proposal's impact, with bullish voters buying at favorable prices if a proposal passes and bearish voters able to sell. (Governance)
- [Infinity (INF)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Sanctum): INF is the liquid staking token of Sanctum's Infinity Pool, representing a share in a multi-LST liquidity pool that holds a basket of LSTs and earns staking yields and trading fees. It is obtained by depositing SOL or LSTs directly into Infinity, and holding INF means owning a slice of the pool that automatically earns yield as the pool's SOL value increases. The pool calculates fair prices for each LST by examining the SOL contained within stake accounts, facilitating seamless swaps between any two LSTs without relying on constant-product or stableswap invariants. (Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs))

## Links

- [Main](https://www.sanctum.so)
- [Blog](https://learn.sanctum.so/blog)
- [Documentation](https://learn.sanctum.so/docs)
- [Forum](https://research.sanctum.so)
- [Governance](https://vote.sanctum.so)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://learn.sanctum.so/docs/misc/press-kit)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/sanctumso)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/sanctumso)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/igneous-labs)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/ironforgecloud)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/cloud)

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