Disclosure

We build a ranking, and we have a pool in it

LST Radar is built and paid for by Guardian Validator, a Solana validator. Guardian earns from stake delegated to it, which includes stake routed to it by pools listed here. gS (Guardian Staked SOL) is our own liquid staking token. Neither fact changes a number on this site, but both change who benefits from you reading it, so they belong before anything else.

What gS is

gS is a single-validator stake pool run on Sanctum’s pool program. Every SOL staked through it is delegated to Guardian Validator, and we direct rewards to it. Sanctum, which operates the program, takes a 2.5% fee through the pool. That is the pool’s ongoing fee, so it is already inside gS’s redemption value and every APY figure shown for it; there is nothing extra to subtract. We do not run the pool code ourselves; we are the validator behind it.

Where gS appears today

It is listed, and it carries an Ours mark everywhere it is named. It is collected, measured and ranked by the same code as every other pool, with no separate path and no adjustment. If it ranks badly on the window you asked for, it will say so.

Where our interests sit

• We benefit if you choose gS, because its stake is delegated to our validator. We do not benefit differently from how the rankings order themselves, because the ordering rules are published and applied to every pool the same way.
• Guardian participates in a governance vote market that influences delegation. That is the same mechanism we would describe on any other pool, and it applies to us too.
• We chose the measures this site ranks by. We tried to choose ones that cannot be tuned in our favour, and to show the arithmetic so you can disagree with the choice rather than having to trust it.

What we are not going to do

We are not going to argue for gS here. If the numbers make the case, they make it without help. If they do not, we would rather you picked something else and kept using the tool. If you would like to support Guardian Validator, staking through gS is how to do it, and that is the only pitch you will find on this site.