Introducing Premium Staking: Innovative Validator Tramplin launches on Solana
What happens when you combine a time-tested financial instrument with Solana’s native staking?
A safer way to get meaningful upside, even with a small portfolio.
Today, we’re excited to announce the public launch of Tramplin, an innovative validator on the Solana network bringing premium staking to the ecosystem for the first time.
Tramplin builds on Solana’s native staking architecture as its base layer and introduces a randomized rewards redistribution mechanism, designed to make staking more engaging and equitable, without compromising capital safety.
Our mission is simple: empower SOL holders — the backbone of the Solana ecosystem — with opportunities traditionally reserved for whales, while preserving the security guarantees of native staking.
Sustainable value crisis, solved by Tramplin
The idea behind Tramplin came from noticing a pattern that’s been repeating in crypto for years. Many protocols started out with the goal of fixing broken financial systems, but over time, that vision often got replaced by business models focused on extracting liquidity rather than creating real, lasting value.
Since 2021, a large part of market activity has been driven by memecoin speculation, extreme leverage, and short-term trading strategies. In these environments, smaller participants tend to arrive late, take on more risk, and exit at a disadvantage.
Staking — one of the safest and most reliable ways to earn in crypto — hasn’t helped much either. For holders with 1–100 SOL, the returns are often too small to feel meaningful or engaging. As a result, many retail users are left with an uncomfortable choice: take on high risk, or simply sit on their capital without participating in the network at all.
That gap is exactly where Tramplin comes in.
Why Premium Bonds?
Premium bonds are a decades-tested financial instrument with over 70 years of history. Instead of fixed interest, yield is pooled and redistributed randomly as prizes.
With over 22 million holders and more than £120 billion invested, premium bonds are among the most widely held retail savings products in the UK. Their success comes from a powerful combination:
- Strong capital protection, which builds long-term trust
- Regular chances at meaningful rewards, which add excitement to saving
Tramplin brings this same logic on-chain, tailored for Solana’s staking ecosystem.
Unlike traditional premium bonds backed by governments, Tramplin secures users’ principal through Solana’s native staking rules. Funds never leave the user’s control and are never held by the platform.
A New Take on Staking
Traditional staking is safe and predictable. But for smaller holders, it can feel underwhelming.
Tramplin reimagines staking by pooling validator rewards and redistributing them randomly. This creates asymmetric upside while keeping the downside unchanged: your principal remains staked and withdrawable under Solana’s protocol rules.
During testing, Tramplin observed periods of elevated effective APY for small stakers, driven by redistribution dynamics and significant committed stake.
How Tramplin Works
- Stake SOL through Tramplin Users delegate >1 SOL directly to the Tramplin validator using native staking.
- Staked SOL generates yield collectively All staked SOL earns protocol staking rewards as usual.
- Rewards are pooled and redistributed Instead of proportional payouts:
- Redistributed every 10 minutes to randomly selected stakers
- One larger redistribution happens once per month
- Unstake anytime Users can deactivate and withdraw their stake at any time, following standard Solana epoch rules.
Built on Native Staking, Without Added Risk
Tramplin operates fully within Solana’s native staking framework:
- No smart-contract custody
- No counterparty risk
- No lockups beyond standard epoch rules
Even if Tramplin were to shut down, all delegated SOL remains fully withdrawable under Solana’s protocol.
Building on the safest primitive on Solana network, Tramplin offers a new middle ground that is safer than speculative yield strategies, and more exciting than passive ones.
This is premium staking, designed for a new generation of on-chain savers.
Learn more at: https://tramplin.io