Everstake joins Raiku as validator launch partner

Everstake, a leading global non-custodial staking and blockchain solutions provider with more than 1 million users across 85+ blockchains, is joining Raiku as a launch partner to bring fast, guaranteed transactions to Solana.

Internet capital markets demand certainty. Raiku provides it by offering deterministic execution, guaranteed block inclusion, and low-latency performance — so transactions go through when and where they are supposed to.

These innovations create a new design space for validators like Everstake and unlock new non-MEV reward sources for their stakers, such as offering advanced scheduling for blockspace and other tailored products to app developers.

Everstake and its fellow validator launch partners join Raiku in its mission to make Solana inevitable, accessing novel markets by running the lightweight Raiku Sidecar and tapping into its seamless integration with Anza (Agave) and Firedancer clients.

“Raiku’s solution to known hurdles in Solana is a crucial step toward making this blockchain the fundamental building block of tomorrow’s DeFi. As one of the contributors to Solana’s genesis, Everstake feels obligated to the broader blockchain community to make this possibility a certainty. Our partnership with Raiku is essential to making Solana become what it has always been poised to be,” said Bohdan Opryshko, Everstake’s COO.

"Everstake has earned its reputation by combining scale with uncompromising reliability. Partnering with them reflects the shared belief that validators deserve more than volatile fee markets — they deserve new economics built on trust, predictability, and guaranteed performance," said Robin Nordnes, CEO and co-founder of Raiku.

What the Raiku-Everstake partnership unlocks

Everstake’s mission is to make the full scope of staking opportunities accessible to everyone globally. With profound expertise and dedication to decentralization, Everstake uses its extensive experience in staking and infrastructure to build solutions and knowledge bases that address the existing and foreseeable challenges for individual and institutional stakers alike.

Raiku holds a similar emphasis commitment to decentralization and financial empowerment,  using the same validators that already secure Solana to ensure guaranteed block inclusion, offering certainty for app developers and users that their transactions will land in times of high stress.

Reliability that never fails under extreme pressure and scale

Deterministic execution that guarantees outcomes for developers

Low latency and control over compute when every millisecond matters

Freedom for builders to design low-level application logic with unparalleled control

These breakthroughs solve a fundamental coordination problem on Solana: the blockchain was originally designed for high performance, yet currently it can see as many as 75% of transactions fail during peak demand. These inefficiencies have made it broadly unsuitable for mass adoption or institutional-grade finance, despite its enormous potential.

By integrating with the lightweight Raiku Sidecar, Everstake enables app developers and users to fully enjoy those benefits, providing tailored blockspace for use cases that demand institutional-grade precision, speed, and reliability, from high-frequency trading and gaming to AI agents, and more.

Join us in making Solana inevitable

When transactions are guaranteed to land at scale, Solana becomes the obvious and inevitable choice for future internet capital markets.

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About Raiku

Internet capital markets demand speed and certainty. Raiku makes Solana inevitable by unlocking high-performance block building, using Solana's core validators to ensure fast, predictable transactions with guaranteed block inclusion.

About Everstake

Everstake, founded in 2018 by blockchain engineers, is a leading global provider of staking and blockchain solutions. Operating across 85+ networks with over 1 million delegators, 40k+ nodes, and over $6.5 billion worth of crypto staked, Everstake ensures high uptime thanks to its enterprise-grade global infrastructure and battle-tested team and provides secure staking solutions to regulated institutions. Beyond staking, the company builds L1 infrastructure for networks like Ethereum and Solana and supports the growth of projects like Wormhole. Everstake is also committed to blockchain education, empowering users with valuable insights into Proof-of-Stake and Web3 technologies.

Everstake is a software platform that provides infrastructure tools and resources for users but does not offer investment advice or investment opportunities, manage funds, facilitate collective investment schemes, provide financial services, or take custody of, or otherwise hold or manage, customer assets. Everstake does not conduct any independent diligence on or substantive review of any blockchain asset, digital currency, cryptocurrency, or associated funds. Everstake’s provision of technology services allowing a user to stake digital assets is not an endorsement or a recommendation of any digital assets by it. Users are fully and solely responsible for evaluating whether to stake digital assets.

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