Kiln vs Sanctum

Kiln3.8/5

VS

Sanctum4.5/5

Feature	KilnVisit	SanctumVisit
Ratings
Our score	3.8/5	4.5/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Yield	3.5	4.5
Security	4.5	4.5
Liquidity	3.0	5.0
Decentralization	3.5	4.0
Ease of use	4.0	4.5
Specs
KYC required	No	Not disclosed
Type	Native staking, Liquid staking, Restaking, Staking pool	Liquid staking
Stakeable assets	ETH, SOL, APT, ATOM, ALGO, AVAX, ADA, TIA, CRO, FET, FLR, IOTA, INJ, MON, NEAR, SEI, SUI, XTZ, TRX, BTC, GRAM	SOL
Receipt token	Not disclosed	INF and validator LSTs
Protocol fee	Not disclosed	0.1%
Chains	Ethereum, Solana, Aptos, Cosmos, Avalanche, Tron, Sui, Bitcoin, Other	Solana
Node operators	Kiln multi-cloud validator infrastructure	Permissionless validator set with custom white-label pools
Audited	Yes	Yes
Restaking	Yes	Not disclosed
Typical reward rate	0% to 30%	5.65%-5.69%
Company
Founded	2018	—
Headquarters	France	—
Investors	1kx, Consensys, Kraken	Not disclosed
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	SOC 2 Type II certified infrastructure audited by Insight Assurance in June 2026 Integrates directly with enterprise custodians including Fireblocks and Ledger Supports over 30 Proof-of-Stake blockchains from a unified API and dashboard Allows direct non-custodial staking without relinquishing asset ownership	Connects over 1,360 Solana liquid staking tokens into shared liquidity Audited by six firms including Quantstamp, OtterSec, and Halborn Program upgrades secured by an 11-member multi-organization multisig Enables immediate unbonding through liquidity pools rather than epoch waits
Cons	Targets institutions and enterprise developers rather than retail self-custody stakers Exposes capital to protocol-specific unbonding queues and lockup periods Experienced a past infrastructure issue that prompted an emergency validator exit	Withdrawal instructions incur a 0.10% fee Restricted exclusively to the Solana blockchain Underlying custom LSTs remain subject to individual validator slashing risks Secondary pool trades face potential depeg risk during liquidity shocks
Best for	Custodians and institutional asset managers, Wallets launching white-label Earn products, Institutions requiring SOC 2 certified staking	Solana holders seeking diversified yield, Validators launching branded LSTs, DeFi traders swapping liquid tokens

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