Sanctum is a Solana liquid staking and transaction-delivery infrastructure protocol that describes itself as Solana's leading staking infrastructure, powering LSTs, validators, and apps. Sanctum's Twitter Score is 173 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,985 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Sanctum was founded by FP and has been building on Solana since 2023, with the team contributing to the implementation of the stake pool program at Solana Labs. The protocol originated from Socean Stake Pool, launched in August 2021 as the second stake pool on Solana, which was later relaunched as Sanctum Stake Pool. Sanctum has since grown into Solana's largest LST platform, with more than 1,361 LSTs.
Sanctum announced CLOUD as its governance token in June 2024, with a total supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. In April 2024, Sanctum announced a seed extension round bringing total funds raised to $6.1 million. Sanctum is backed by Dragonfly as lead investor, alongside CMS Holdings, Defiance Capital, Jump, Sequoia India, Solana Ventures, and BOOGLE Syndicate.
Sanctum acquired Ironforge, a Solana infrastructure provider, in July 2025. At its peak, Ironforge handled up to one-third of Solana transaction volume. Sanctum is also affiliated with MetaDAO. Sanctum's account has published 4,727 posts and has 80,520 followers as of August 2026. Sanctum has been mentioned by 517 accounts a total of 1,644 times.
Sanctum's portfolio includes Ironforge.
Who follows Sanctum on X?
The accounts that follow Sanctum include 537 founders, 149 angel investors, 400 influencers and 18 VCs. Among them are Toly, Solana, Ansem, Laura Shin, Mert and Haseeb Qureshi.