VanEck partners with Kiln to power institutional staking for VanEck’s Solana Strategy
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< BlogWe are excited to announce that Kiln was chosen as an exclusive partner to power the staking infrastructure behind VanEck’s Solana strategy. VanEck customers can now gain exposure to Solana through a traditional financial product while benefiting from SOL staking rewards.
By leveraging the Kiln platform, VanEck can confidently offer secure and high-performance staking for its institutional clients. This partnership underscores Kiln’s commitment to providing enterprise-level solutions that support the growing demand for innovative structured products, such as ETNs, ETFs, and ETPs.
Kiln’s proven track record in delivering maximum configurability, robust security, and comprehensive reporting capabilities ensures that VanEck can seamlessly manage its Solana Strategy.
What VanEck’s Solana strategy means for investors and crypto adoption
VanEck’s Solana strategy offers investors an innovative way to gain exposure to Solana, one of the most active blockchain ecosystems, and its staking rewards without having to manage or stake SOL tokens themselves directly.
With the backing of Kiln’s institutional-grade staking infrastructure, VanEck's customers can participate in the Solana network’s growth with the added security and simplicity of a traditional financial product.
This collaboration marks an essential step toward crypto adoption by enabling institutional investors to integrate blockchain-based assets such as SOL into their portfolios confidently.
"Kiln was our go-to choice for powering our Solana strategy. Their excellent track record on many blockchains, including Solana, and institutional capabilities ensure we can deliver a product that meets institutional standards.” — Menno Martens, Crypto Product Manager at VanEck
"VanEck is setting another milestone with this Solana strategy, unlocking seamless access to SOL assets and staking rewards for institutions. We are excited about this partnership and joining VanEck’s mission to shape new opportunities for investors.” — Laszlo Szabo, Co-Founder and CEO at Kiln
Stay tuned as we continue to support our partners in pioneering blockchain-based financial products with confidence and security.
About VanEck
VanEck has a history of looking beyond the financial markets to identify trends that are likely to create impactful investment opportunities. We were one of the first U.S. asset managers to offer investors access to international markets. This set the tone for the firm’s drive to identify asset classes and trends—including gold investing in 1968, emerging markets in 1993, and Exchange Traded Funds in 2006—that subsequently shaped the investment management industry.
Today, VanEck offers active and passive strategies with compelling exposures supported by well-designed investment processes. The firm’s capabilities range from core investment opportunities to more specialized exposures to enhance portfolio diversification. Our actively managed strategies are fueled by in-depth, bottom-up research and security selection from portfolio managers with direct experience in the sectors and regions in which they invest. Investability, liquidity, diversity, and transparency are key to the experienced decision-making around market and index selection underlying VanEck’s passive strategies.
Since our founding in 1955, putting our clients’ interests first, in all market environments, has been at the heart of the firm’s mission.
About Kiln
Kiln is the leading staking and digital asset rewards management platform, enabling institutional customers to earn rewards on their digital assets, or to whitelabel earning functionality into their products. Kiln runs validators on all major PoS blockchains, with over $8.6 billion in crypto assets being programmatically staked and running over 4.5% of the Ethereum network on a multi-client, multi-cloud, and multi-region infrastructure. Kiln also provides a validator-agnostic suite of products for fully automated deployment of validators and reporting and commission management, enabling custodians, wallets, and exchanges to streamline staking or DeFi operations across providers. Kiln is SOC2 Type 2 certified.
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