The MNDE token
Marinade’s MNDE token lets holders participate in the protocol's governance. This includes control of the DAO's fees, treasury, and which validators will receive the pool's SOL stake.
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Marinade’s MNDE token lets holders participate in the protocol's governance. This includes control of the DAO's fees, treasury, and which validators will receive the pool's SOL stake.
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Total supply: 1,000,000,000 MNDE
Circulating supply:
Issuance date: 7 October 2021
Fully issued date: None (distribution based on DAO votes)
Mint address:
Minting: Disabled
Marinade was founded through Solana ecosystem grants at the Solana Hackathon in 2021 and launched its liquid staking protocol and mSOL liquid staking token on mainnet that August. The MNDE governance token was minted on November 7, 2021, as a fair-launch token with no ICO (Initial Coin Offering). Marinade launched on-chain DAO governance in April 2022. Since then, all decisions related to the treasury have been voted on chain.
In July 2023, The DAO migrated its governance platform to Realms. This enables direct control of the treasury and protocol decisions by MNDE holders. There is also a Marinade Council that has the power to control liquidity mining and operational multisigs.
To participate in DAO governance, holders must lock their MNDE on Marinade’s Realms governance platform. Locked MNDE is subject to a 30-day unlocking period which begins once the unlock is initiated. MNDE holders cannot vote during this period. Anyone with locked MNDE can send proposals on chain and execute them when passed.
Founded as a public good for Solana whose core mission is to contribute to a decentralized and performant Solana blockchain, Marinade’s main goal is to distribute MNDE to similar-minded ecosystem builders and enable them to control the parameters of protocol and treasury through governance.
While liquidity mining was prevalent in the early days of the token to grow distribution and liquidity, the DAO has since transitioned to a model where MNDE is distributed primarily via contributions to the protocol benefitting the TVL growth of the protocol.
Marinade’s core contributors do not receive time-based token unlocks, only TVL milestone unlocks. .
7.5% of MNDE (75M) is allocated to initial contributors. This distribution was completed in January 2024.
The remainder of the MNDE treasury is under the control of the DAO, which can submit proposals and vote to determine how and when to distribute the tokens.
A budget of up to between September 2022 and September 2023.
A budget of , capped by Marinade's TVL growth.
A was distributed to the team and advisors for TVL objectives. When operating expenses are greater than protocol revenue, MNDE is taken out of this budget to support contributor compensation.
MNDE was originally airdropped to mSOL holders and then offered as incentives in liquidity mining to boost token distribution. Liquidity mining of MNDE is now under the Marinade Council's control, which can determine the DeFi protocols and pools to support, if any. At this time, there is no liquidity mining available for the MNDE token. Visit the to view proposals for MNDE incentives.
MNDE is available for trading on leading Solana DEXs. MNDE is also available on central exchanges like , and .
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