Solblaze

SolBlaze is a Solana-native ecosystem builder founded in late 2021, best known for BlazeStake — one of the network's most decentralized liquid staking protocols. The project's scope extends well beyond staking into payments infrastructure, token tooling, and a permissionless platform for launching custom liquid staking tokens, making it one of the more vertically integrated builder teams on Solana.

BlazeStake: Liquid Staking With a Decentralization Focus

BlazeStake is SolBlaze's flagship product: a fully non-custodial liquid staking protocol supported by the Solana Foundation. Users deposit SOL and receive bSOL (BlazeStake Staked SOL), a liquid receipt token whose value appreciates relative to SOL as staking rewards compound each epoch. Rewards accrue directly into the token's exchange rate rather than as separate distributions, so bSOL holders earn passively without any active claim process.

The protocol's most visible differentiator is its validator set size. BlazeStake routes delegation across more than 200 validators — the largest validator set of any Solana stake pool. This wide distribution directly counters a structural concentration problem on the network: more than 33% of all staked SOL flows to just 32 of Solana's 1,800-plus active validators. By spreading stake more broadly, BlazeStake contributes to network decentralization and censorship resistance in a way that single-validator or narrow-set pools cannot.

The protocol runs on the official Solana Labs stake pool smart contracts, which carry an extensive audit history, and charges a 0% commission to maximize staking yields for depositors. Users can exit through instant unstaking (trading bSOL on secondary markets) or standard delayed unstaking at the end of an epoch.

Custom Liquid Staking and BLZE Gauges

BlazeStake's most technically distinctive feature is Custom Liquid Staking (CLS). Unlike standard liquid staking — where a pool's algorithm decides all validator allocation — CLS lets individual depositors direct their stake to a specific validator while still receiving bSOL in return. The protocol tracks a 1:1 relationship between each user's bSOL balance and the SOL delegated to their chosen validator; if the bSOL balance falls, the corresponding validator delegation adjusts proportionally. Advanced users can distribute weighted allocation across multiple validators simultaneously.

The BLZE token adds a governance and incentive layer on top. Holders can lock BLZE for up to five years to receive veBLZE, with five-year locks yielding 10x more voting power than fully unlocked positions, mirroring the vote-escrow models popularized in other DeFi protocols. BLZE Gauge voting allows the community to influence which validators or ecosystem projects receive additional stake incentives from the protocol's treasury, giving token holders direct input into how staking weight is deployed across Solana's validator set.

Bliq: Permissionless Custom LST Creation

SolBlaze extended its infrastructure surface with Bliq — a modular framework enabling any project or validator to launch their own branded liquid staking token. Custom LSTs go live in minutes without manual technical implementation. Creators configure parameters such as commission rates (including 0% options), branding, and delegation strategies, then publish their LST on Bliq's integrated discovery page.

Bliq positions SolBlaze as infrastructure not just for end stakers but for any Solana team seeking to offer liquid staking under their own token and brand. The platform creates a long tail of LSTs while keeping BlazeStake's settlement layer and delegation infrastructure at the center.

BlazeRewards

BlazeRewards is SolBlaze's ecosystem-wide incentive layer, described as the first global rewards program for SOL liquid staking and DeFi adoption on Solana. Users earn rewards by holding bSOL and deploying it in DeFi protocols across the network, creating stacked yield opportunities beyond the base staking APY. The program is designed to deepen bSOL liquidity across lending protocols, DEX pools, and yield aggregators.

SolPay SDK

On the payments side, SolBlaze developed the SolPay SDK — a fully non-custodial Solana payments JavaScript SDK enabling developers to integrate crypto payments directly between users and merchants. Because funds travel peer-to-peer without any intermediary, the system requires no custodial accounts or third-party payment processors. Documentation is hosted at solpay-docs.solblaze.org and includes a quick-start guide targeting setup in under five minutes, a full SDK reference, and an API reference for more advanced integration patterns.

Developer and Infrastructure Tools

SolBlaze has also shipped several lighter-weight tools for the broader Solana developer and user community:

• Token Minter: A no-code interface for minting SPL tokens with Metaplex metadata, allowing projects to deploy Solana tokens without writing deployment scripts.
• RPC Status Tracker: Described as the first Solana-specific RPC uptime monitoring page, tracking availability across major infrastructure providers including Triton One, GenesysGo, QuickNode, Ankr, and Blockdaemon.
• SOL Faucet: An emergency SOL distribution service for wallets needing transaction fee coverage.

Ecosystem Context

Solana's liquid staking market expanded substantially over 2023 and 2024, with total LST market capitalization rising from under $200 million in early 2023 to over $8 billion by late 2024. Despite this growth, only approximately 6% of Solana's total staked tokens were in liquid staking solutions as of late 2024, leaving significant headroom for further adoption. SolBlaze's combination of broad validator coverage, user-controlled delegation, no-commission staking, and a permissionless LST creation platform gives it a distinct position among teams competing for that opportunity — focused on stakers who prioritize decentralization and flexibility over the narrower designs more common among the protocol's peers.