Small Stake, Whale APR: Why Retail Stakers Win on Tramplin Long Term
Tramplin was designed with small stakers in mind. Those 2M+ of idle wallets holding 1-10 SOL, and the real people behind them. This will always be the inspiration and the origin story behind Tramplin.
That said, larger holders can benefit from staking their SOL on Tramplin too, and have been a part of Tramplin user base since our launch on February 4th.
In this article, we are breaking down how large holders participation is impacting smaller users. Based on the real numbers, pulled from Tramplin smart contract.
Someone asked on X: are whales taking over Tramplin?
First of all, let’s define who qualifies as a Solana whale: someone holding a large enough amount of SOL to significantly influence its market price and liquidity with a single transaction. According to Dune, that’s holders with 50,000 SOL, with 10,000 SOL typically treated as whale-level holdings.
Now, let’s see how many 10,000+ SOL wallets are staking on Tramplin.
Zero.
There is only one staker on Tramplin in the 5-10k holding range. 99,000 SOL committed stake is only used to generate rewards for users and is not participating in the distribution.
Today, 68% of Tramplin users stake 1-10 SOL, with another 24% staking 10-100 SOL.
What about my whale-sized APY?
As you might know, Tramplin pools and redistributes rewards randomly, which means that there is no guaranteed APY. But let’s look at the numbers:
Users with top-10, triple digit APY on Tramplin are all small holders. Moreover, you don’t need to be holding thousands of SOL to get large redistributions.
By the way, as of this week, you can see the each winner’s APY in your staker dashboard on Tramplin. We keep shipping and improving UX on the platform.
Becoming the ultimate savings platform for crypto
It’s important to remember that Tramplin follows premium staking model: a decades-tested system in UK where people people safely hold their savings for years, even decades.
It’s not designed for a quick cash out, and neither is Tramplin.
Our goal is to become an ultimate savings platform for crypto, where users keep their SOL for a long time, enjoying the safety combined with a chance of major returns.
That’s why the longer you stake, the higher your effective stake is, maximizing your chances of receiving reward redistributions without adding more SOL.
A couple more points to consider:
The more stakers there are on Tramplin, the higher amounts everyone will be getting.
At the moment of this post, users are receiving approx. 7$ small redistributions every 10 minutes. If we have 10x users, it will be 70$.
100x? 700$. For multiple users. Every ten minutes.
Likewise, large redistributions (1 x month for 1 randomly selected user) can easily turn into 5, 6 and 7-digit rewards.
With our growth rate to date, it’s not impossible — and we’re about to launch a referral program to get there faster.
That APY would be through the roof, with no added risk to your capital.
If larger wallets join too, this will boost the reward amount for everyone.
And don’t forget the Solana price
Whether it’s a correction or a bear market, at the moment SOL price is far from ATH.
What happens if it grows? Dollar value of redistributions also increases. Combined with user growth, this snowballs your potential returns.
Not an investment advice 🙂
I haven’t received a redistribution yet 😟
Tramplin has been live for 18 days, or 9 Solana epochs.
Users who have staked with us since day one have received 7.92 redistributions on average, compared to 0.20 average redistribution for those who have only joined us two days ago.
What does it tell us? The math behind Tramplin works.
Around 1.5–2.5 months of continuous staking make it very likely (95–99%) that a user gets at least one redistribution.
Tramplin is designed to incentivize long-term participation.
Are you in for the ride?