Solstice Joins Pye as a Validator Partner
Pye Finance is excited to announce a partnership with Solstice. This collaboration unlocks new utility for Solstice stakers through Pye, and ways to boost APY, without ever having to unstake.
Solstice Joins Pye as a Validator Partner
Pye Finance is excited to announce a partnership with Solstice. This collaboration unlocks new utility for Solstice stakers through Pye, and ways to boost APY, without ever having to unstake.
By working closely with experienced validators like Solstice, Pye is designing new staking primitives and DeFi infrastructure around validators.
Through this collaboration, Solstice will help shape the early development of Programmable Stake Accounts (PSAs) while unlocking new opportunities:
- Programmable Stake Accounts with fixed and variable rewards
- New uncapped validator revenue streams, including fees from stake account trading activity
- Early access for stakers to convert their stake into tradeable tokens representing future rewards
Participation in early DeFi pilots built on top of programmable stake accounts.
As a core validator partner, Solstice brings deep operational insight into how staking, rewards, and validator economics work in practice.
Why This Matters
This partnership matters because it positions Solstice at the forefront of a fundamental shift in how staking works on Solana. Today, delegated stake sits idle, earning yield but locked out of the broader DeFi economy. By partnering with Pye Finance, Solstice stakers gain access to Programmable Stake Accounts that transform their stake into a dynamic, financially expressive asset. For Solstice, this means new uncapped revenue streams beyond traditional commission economics, while their stakers unlock the ability to trade future rewards, access structured lockups, and participate in DeFi markets built directly on top of their staked position. As the Solana ecosystem scales, validators who integrate programmable primitives early will define the next generation of staking infrastructure, and Solstice is building that future alongside Pye.
What Comes Next
Already staking to Solstice? Upgrade your stake account today and join an existing lockup to get started.
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About Solstice
Solstice Finance is a decentralised finance protocol developed by Solstice Labs AG, a Deus X Enterprise company, in partnership with the Solstice Foundation. Collectively they are reimagining asset management for the onchain era. Solstice's Protocol leverages a licenced approved manager and fund to offer institutional-grade access to DeFi and TradFi investors. Key products include USX, a Solana-native stablecoin alongside Solstice's YieldVault, a democratized yield-bearing protocol that allows participants to access institutional-grade delta-neutral yields.
Bolstering the group's crypto credentials, Solstice Labs AG also operates Solstice Staking AG, one of the most trusted infrastructure providers in the industry, securing over $1 billion in assets across 9,000+ validator nodes.
About Pye
Pye is a Solana-native software platform focused on validator finance. Built around programmable stake accounts as a core primitive, Pye is building financial infrastructure that allows validators to issue next-generation stake accounts unlocking new revenue streams for validators and stakers.
