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 174 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #2,970 (top 1%) among 493,668 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 4,842 posts and has 80,461 followers as of October 2026. Sanctum has been mentioned by 551 accounts a total of 1,743 times.
Sanctum's portfolio includes Ironforge.
Who follows Sanctum on X?
The accounts that follow Sanctum include 549 founders, 149 angel investors, 400 influencers and 19 VCs. Among them are Toly, Solana, Ansem, Laura Shin, Mert and Haseeb Qureshi.