Sanctum vs SSV Network

Sanctum4.5/5

VS

SSV Network4.0/5

Feature	SanctumVisit	SSV NetworkVisit
Ratings
Our score	4.5/5	4.0/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Yield	4.5	4.0
Security	4.5	4.5
Liquidity	5.0	3.5
Decentralization	4.0	4.5
Ease of use	4.5	3.5
Specs
Type	Liquid staking	Staking pool
Stakeable assets	SOL	ETH
Receipt token	INF and validator LSTs	cSSV
Protocol fee	0.1%	Not disclosed
Chains	Solana	Ethereum
Node operators	Permissionless validator set with custom white-label pools	Permissionless operators running distributed validators
Audited	Yes	Yes
Restaking	Not disclosed	Yes
Typical reward rate	5.65%-5.69%	20%+
Company
Founded	—	—
Headquarters	—	—
Investors	Not disclosed	Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Gate Ventures, Lukka +1
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	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	Secures over 7 million ETH across more than 120,000 validators Active-active fault tolerance handles one offline operator in a four-node cluster Non-custodial key shares isolate node operators from full validator keys Network fee distributions to cSSV stakers are paid directly in ETH
Cons	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	Operates exclusively on the Ethereum network Stakers pay both operator market fees and DAO network fees Unstaking cSSV requires waiting through a mandatory cooldown queue Coordinated operator failures can still trigger Ethereum slashing penalties
Best for	Solana holders seeking diversified yield, Validators launching branded LSTs, DeFi traders swapping liquid tokens	Liquid staking protocols decentralizing validators, Institutional stakers needing cold-storage key protection, SSV holders seeking ETH yield

Highlighted cells show the stronger value in each row. Data comes from each provider's site and public sources; check details before you sign up.

More comparisons