NFT staking generally refers to the process by which holders of a given collection commit to locking up their tokens in exchange for rewards that may take many different forms. Projects use these systems to foster longer term commitment from holders and deliver measurable value in return for their loyalty.

Cardinal staking is the only truly on-chain, escrow-less solution for NFT staking on Solana. It leverages our flagship conditional ownership technology to provide a seamless and bulletproof experience for projects and their holders.

With dozens of nuanced features available out-of-the-box and a naturally modular architecture, there’s little limit to what you can achieve with the tooling. We’re continually working with our partner collections to serve their differing needs and innovate with new features.

Please reference the pricing section for information about setup and usage costs.

Cardinal offers both technical and no-code solutions for easily setting up stake pools. While developers may prefer to reference our technical documentation(linked) for guidance on creating pools, others can simply navigate to stake.cardinal.so/admin and go through our no-code setup process.

NFT stake pools can whitelist any creator, collection, or mint address that can be staked within. The pool’s authority may amend these parameters as they see fit at any point in the pool’s lifetime. Custodial fungible token stake pools can also be created by whitelisting a fungible token mint address.

The Cardinal staking interface admin page allows pool authorities to manage their existing pools. This includes viewing basic analytics, modifying reward multipliers for specific mints, changing global reward distribution rates, modifying duration thresholds and locking parameters, and much more.

We also offer a variety of scripts and other tools to make modifying stake pools very easy for developers. Check out our GitHub repos here.

Projects can optionally add a reward distributor to their stake pool to power on-chain, fungible token reward distribution. This is entirely optional - many projects that do not wish to reward stakers with fungible tokens simply use their pools to track time staked and reward their holders in other ways (airdrops, metadata upgrades, etc.).

The reward distributor is modeled as a separate smart contract so that in theory, new reward distributors can be implemented and plugged into Cardinal stake pools to achieve novel forms of distribution.