Stake Matching

The SFDP will partially match stake, or stake not from Solana Foundation.

By matching stake, the SFDP creates a strong incentive for participants to engage with the broader Solana community and attract stake external to the delegation program thereby increasing their independence and encouraging them to optimize their performance and decentralization metrics. Secondarily, this gives the broader Solana ecosystem an opportunity to influence where the Solana Foundation stakes its SOL by having their own delegations decisions matched by the Solana Foundation. For more information on stake matching, including matching limits and matching ratios, please see FAQ: Stake Matching

Examples, assuming a stake matching ratio of 0.5 and a matching limit of 50,000 SOL:

If an SFDP participant has 10,000 SOL stake outside of the SFDP, then they would get an additional 5,000 SOL delegation from the Foundation, for a total of 15,000 SOL plus the residual delegation. (see residual delegation below)
If an SFDP participant has 250,000 SOL staked excluding SFDP stake, then they would get 50,000 from the matching portion of SFDP, for a total of 300,000 SOL plus the residual delegation from the Foundation (see residual delegation below)

Performance Requirements: Validators must meet the residual requirements (see Delegation Criteria) and have a five epoch of average of sufficiently high block production.

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