Crypto yield generated significant excitement when it emerged in 2017, particularly in DeFi, due to its earning potential. However, small holders were often excluded. Standard staking offered minimal rewards, while riskier options threatened capital. Today, we focus on addressing these challenges.
Ilya Tarutov believes there’s a better solution. As the founder of Tramplin.io, he spoke with Bitcoin.com about a new staking method on Solana made for smaller holders. It’s as safe as native staking but offers a better chance for real rewards.
What were the first clear signals that small SOL holders needed a different approach to staking?
The first big sign was that many small SOL holders weren’t staking at all. Native staking is safe and easy, but if you have a small amount, the rewards are so small they hardly matter. When the safest choice doesn’t seem worth it, people either skip staking or try riskier options like memecoins, leverage, or high- APY products.
Looking at wallets with 1 to 100 SOL, we saw a clear pattern. About 2 million wallets held SOL but didn’t stake, while only about 560,000 in that range did. Access wasn’t the problem. What was missing was a good reason or motivation to take part.
Can you explain what Tramplin.io is and how it differs from standard native staking on Solana?
You delegate your SOL just as you would with regular native staking. You retain full control while still benefiting from Solana’s core security features.
The main difference is how rewards are given out. Regular staking offers a steady APY of 7-10%, depending on how much you stake, but for small holders, the rewards often feel too small to matter.
On Tramplin.io, all Solana inflation rewards are pooled and distributed randomly. Smaller draws happen every 10 minutes, and a bigger one takes place once a month. This keeps staking secure and native while giving you a chance at higher rewards without risking your main funds.
Many DeFi and staking products offer attractive yields, but not all prove sustainable. In your experience, what separates “real yield” from “inflated yield,” and where does Tramplin’s approach fit?
Real yield is steady and reliable. It comes from regular liquidity and clear, on-chain processes. Inflated yield, on the other hand, shows off high APYs, often boosted by extra tokens or lots of leverage, and only lasts for a while. When it ends, both the yield and your money can disappear.
We focus on real yield. Nothing is created from nothing. The rewards come straight from Solana’s native inflation. We just pool what the network produces and share it in a way that’s fully on-chain and easy to check.
Walk us through how rewards actually work on Tramplin.io in practice, including randomised redistribution, and why users should trust the mechanics?
You delegate your SOL the same way as with regular native staking, sending it from your wallet to the validator. The stake becomes active in the next epoch, usually in a few days, or sooner if the timing is right. Once it’s active, your address is automatically added to the reward pools.
After that, Solana’s inflation rewards build up in the pools, and we run random draws on a set schedule: smaller ones every 10 minutes and a bigger one once a month. If your address is chosen, you get a notification, claim the SOL, and it goes straight to your wallet. Everything is on-chain and easy to verify.
Who controls the stake, and what happens if your interface disappears?
You always control your stake. After you delegate, it turns into a standard native Solana stake account. We never access your funds, and your SOL stays in your wallet. If the platform disappears, the servers go down, or the website is gone, nothing changes for you. Just open Phantom, Backpack, or your usual wallet, and your stake and funds will still be there.
You may have to wait for the usual epoch unbonding period, but that’s normal for Solana and works just like regular staking. There are no special permissions, no need to rely on us, and no risk of being locked out. The system is designed to be simple and safe.
What’s your vision for Tramplin.io under your leadership, and the major focus for 2026?
We want Tramplin.io to become the main choice for savings-style crypto products, easy enough for anyone to use, even if they’re new to crypto. Our aim is to help people build better long-term saving habits without risking their assets. If, in a few years, thousands of families say this helped them save, that’s a real success.
In practice, this means having millions of active users, strong user retention, and setting the standard for smart staking.
For 2026, we’re aiming for steady, careful growth. We want to make onboarding easier so users quickly understand the luck-based part, build better wallet integrations and partnerships, explain the random redistribution more clearly, and most importantly, keep everything fully on-chain and simple to verify.
How will Tramplin.io keep small holders front and centre as it grows?
About Tramplin.io
Tramplin.io is a premium staking platform built on Solana with a verifiable, random distribution of outsized rewards. Launched in early 2025, it aims to give everyday SOL holders a fair shot at bigger upside while keeping their capital fully secure and under their control. The project is backed by iTreasury Ventures, an early investor in Solana, Polkadot, and several other foundational blockchain projects.
Learn more at Tramplin.io and follow @Tramplin_io on X.
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