Sanctum Opens Wave 2 of Mobile App Early Access for iOS and Android

Sanctum CLOUD$0.054-4.1% opened Wave 2 of early access to its iOS and Android app on June 17, expanding access to more waitlisted users one week after Wave 1 launched on June 10. Users who registered for the waitlist at sanctum.so/app/waitlist can access the app using their original registration email.

The rollout follows a wave-based model: Sanctum's Wave 1 blog post on June 10 described Wave 2 as "already on the horizon," positioning the early access phase as a controlled expansion ahead of a full public release with no set date.

What the Sanctum App Does

The app is built around one function: staking SOL and collecting yield daily. Unlike Solana wallets such as Phantom or Backpack, which include staking as one feature among many, Sanctum designed the product explicitly around passive yield accumulation, targeting what it called "the 99.999% of the world who aren't involved in degen crypto" in its December 2025 app introduction.

Core mechanics: users stake SOL through the app and receive rewards paid daily, with no lock-up periods and no withdrawal fees. Rewards auto-compound on receipt. Sanctum claims yields of up to 10% on SOL, with the excess above base staking rates coming partly from trading fees generated when users swap between LSTs through Sanctum's infrastructure.

The app first launched on Solana Seeker hardware in March 2026 before the iOS and Android expansion began.

Infrastructure Behind the Consumer Product

The mobile app sits on top of Sanctum's Infinity pool, a multi-LST liquidity layer that pools dozens of liquid staking tokens and earns from two sources: the weighted average staking yield across all pooled LSTs and the trading fees generated when users swap between them. INF (INF) carries that pooled position as a tradeable token and ranked as the highest-yielding major LST on Solana at 6.44% APY as of early 2026, ahead of JitoSOL (JitoSOL), JupSOL (JupSOL), and mSOL (mSOL).

Sanctum's infrastructure role extends well beyond its own INF token. The protocol's router and stake pool program underlie JupSOL (Jupiter's LST), fwdSOL (Forward Industries), and LSTs from Bonk and Drift, among others. When Raiku launched rkuSOL in June 2026 as a Solana LST backed by blockspace auction revenue, it integrated Sanctum's infrastructure from day one alongside Kamino and Jupiter. That breadth makes the mobile app an unusual consumer product: it is a front end built on top of infrastructure that already touches a significant portion of Solana's staking ecosystem.

Why Daily Yield Matters for Consumer UX

Native Solana staking pays rewards at epoch boundaries, which run roughly every two days. The delay is a minor inconvenience for protocol-level users but a meaningful UX barrier for consumers accustomed to daily interest accrual from savings products. Sanctum's daily compounding removes that friction.

The framing in Sanctum's December 2025 introduction was explicit about the strategic intent: "The more layers of the Solana economy Sanctum touches, the more value we can capture." A mobile app aimed at mainstream users complements the protocol's existing DeFi-native footprint by creating a direct consumer distribution channel for the same yield infrastructure.

Users on the waitlist will receive access instructions by email. The app is available on the App Store and Google Play.