Get StartedAdd SOL Staking to Your Exchange — Without Running Nodes
AllenHark runs a white-label Solana validator under your exchange's brand. Your users stake from inside your custody flow. You keep the commission. We handle the hardware, the upgrades, the MEV plumbing, and the 99.9% SLA.
Why exchanges add white-label staking
Native SOL staking is one of the highest-converting product additions a Solana-listing exchange can ship. Users want yield on idle SOL; competitors are already offering it; and the commission flow is real revenue that scales linearly with deposits. The blocker is not demand — the blocker is operations.
Running your own validator means hiring infrastructure engineers, sourcing bare-metal hardware in Tier-1 data centers, gluing together Agave or Firedancer with the Jito client, building monitoring and on-call coverage, and absorbing slashing risk you do not need. For an exchange whose core product is order matching and custody, that is the wrong cost structure.
White-label validators flip the trade. You keep what is yours — the brand, the customer relationship, the commission — and outsource the part that does not differentiate you. The validator runs under your exchange's name on-chain; your users see your brand; your back office sees the reporting feed; AllenHark handles everything else.
How the integration works
Three integration surfaces, all of which your existing custody platform can consume.
On-chain delegation
Your custody platform constructs Solana delegation instructions targeting our white-label vote account. Standard SPL stake-program semantics — no custom contract, no proprietary primitives.
Reporting API
Read-only API exposing vote credits, stake activation, MEV tip distribution, SLA metrics, and per-delegator reports. JSON over HTTPS. Plug into your back office and accounting.
Brandable dashboard
Optional brandable user-facing performance dashboard. Your URL, your logo, your validator name. Users see your brand — not ours.
Custody stays where it belongs — with you
Solana staking is non-custodial by protocol design. Delegators retain ownership of their stake accounts and authorize delegation to a validator vote account; the validator never takes custody of user funds. This means your existing custody architecture — whether MPC, HSM, or qualified-custodian — works unchanged.
When a user stakes, your custody platform creates and signs a delegation instruction on the user's behalf, pointing at our validator vote account. When the user unstakes, your custody platform constructs the deactivation. AllenHark is never in the signing path for user funds.
Operational coverage AllenHark does provide: validator host security, identity/vote key isolation, slashing-protection bookkeeping, OFAC screening at the transaction-processing layer (optional), and full audit trail on every config change.
Commission, revenue, and the unit economics
- You set the commission. Industry-typical 5–10%. The validator commission accrues to your exchange every epoch via the native Solana stake-program path.
- MEV tips on top. Jito MEV tips collected by the validator are distributed to delegators on top of native rewards. The MEV uplift is real APY for your users and a differentiator versus exchanges using non-MEV validators.
- Flat-fee infra. AllenHark bills a flat monthly fee. No skim on your commission. No tiering tricks.
- Revenue-share optional. If AllenHark contributes to delegation acquisition (institutional intros, LST partnerships, etc.), we split that upside via a contractually-defined revenue-share. Otherwise: flat fee.
See full pricing.
Ship branded staking this quarter
48-hour validator setup, 1–2 sprints of integration, and you are in market with native SOL yield for your users.
FAQ
Can an exchange add white-label Solana staking without running nodes?
Yes. AllenHark operates the validator under your exchange's brand and exposes APIs your custody platform integrates with. Users stake to your validator from inside your custody flow; the validator is invisible to the user; your exchange keeps the commission.
How does the integration work?
Three integration surfaces: (1) on-chain — your custody platform creates delegation instructions targeting our validator vote account; (2) reporting API — read-only access to vote credits, stake activation, MEV tips, SLA metrics for your back office; (3) dashboard — brandable user-facing performance reports.
Who holds the user's SOL?
Your custody system. Staking on Solana is non-custodial — delegators retain ownership of their stake accounts and authorize delegation. The validator does not custody user funds at any point.
What does the commission flow look like?
You set the validator commission; rewards minus commission accrue to delegators automatically each epoch. AllenHark bills you a flat monthly infra fee. Optional revenue-share is available where AllenHark contributes to delegation acquisition.
Can we screen delegations for sanctions?
Yes. We can apply OFAC SDN address screening at the validator transaction-processing layer for exchanges that need sanctions-aware infrastructure. See /managed-validator/security for the full posture.
How fast can we ship?
Validator live on mainnet in under 48 hours. API integration on top of that typically lands in 1–2 sprints depending on your custody platform. We provide reference code for the common patterns.
What if we already use another staking partner?
We support zero-downtime migration — you keep your on-chain identity, your delegators, and your reputation. See /managed-validator/migration for the playbook.
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