Alchemy Validators Expands Solana Staking Rewards with Pye Labs

Alchemy is collaborating with Pye Labs, a Solana Foundation-incubated protocol, to combine institutional-grade validator operations with improvements to Solana staking accounts.

Turning Staking Infrastructure Into Revenue Growth

Validator staking is fundamental infrastructure for blockchain networks—but it's also a proven revenue stream for institutions and businesses holding digital assets. By delegating tokens to validators that secure the network, organizations generate consistent yields on otherwise idle treasury assets while contributing to network security.

Until now, that's meant choosing between standard staking returns (around 7% on Solana) with no flexibility, or building custom arrangements through opaque off-chain deals. This partnership changes that equation.

Through Pye Labs' platform, institutions can stake to Alchemy's Solana validator with programmable terms—structured lockups for enhanced yields, transparent on-chain enforcement, and eventually tradeable positions—all while maintaining the same institutional-grade security that protects over $500M in assets across our validator operations.

Why Programmable Staking Infrastructure

Pye Labs provides upgraded stake accounts that have built-in tools for data transparency, customized commission structures, and automated accounting and distribution — all on-chain.

For institutional stakers, this creates new opportunities to:

• Structure staking positions with defined lockup periods that align with treasury management requirements and risk parameters

• Access differentiated yield profiles beyond standard staking returns (13-25% vs. standard ~7%), with transparent on-chain enforcement of terms

• Maintain institutional security standards while participating in more flexible staking arrangements—all operations flow through Alchemy's SOC 2 Type II certified infrastructure

• Trade staking positions as markets develop, providing liquidity options without sacrificing validator relationship quality

Through Pye Labs' platform, institutions can stake to Alchemy's Solana validator with programmable terms that match their specific requirements—whether that's extended lockup periods for higher yields, structured reward distribution schedules, or positions that can eventually be traded as these markets mature.

Importantly, these mechanisms operate within Solana's existing validator ecosystem—not as a parallel system, but as an infrastructure layer that makes existing staking relationships more flexible and transparent. All this is done through Programmable Stake Accounts (PSAs), a new staking primitive that extends Solana’s native stake accounts with additional data structures.

What Alchemy Brings to the Collaboration

Our participation centers on applying institutional-grade operational standards to this emerging infrastructure:

• Security-First Operations: All staking operations through Pye Labs maintain Alchemy's core security architecture—air-gapped signing, geo-redundant systems, and 24/7 monitoring with a zero-slashing track record for over four years

• Institutional Reliability: Whether staking through standard delegation or structured arrangements via Pye Labs, institutions receive the same 99.9%+ uptime guarantee and automated failover protection that secures over $500M in assets across our validator operations.

• Strategic Network Development: As an early validator partner for ecosystems like Aptos and Sui, we understand how to participate constructively in new infrastructure development while maintaining operational discipline.

Technical Framework

Pye Labs' programmable staking model introduces an upgrade to native Solana stake accounts that can separate principal and reward components, enabling more granular management of staking positions. This is achieved through what Pye Labs calls "Liquid Staking Bonds"—smart contract-enforced arrangements that combine inflation, MEV, and block rewards into structured products.

For institutional stakers, this means the ability to:

• Lock stake for defined periods with programmatically enforced terms

• Access enhanced yields through structured products

• Separate principal from future rewards for different treasury management strategies

• Eventually trade positions as secondary markets develop

For validators like Alchemy, this means the ability to offer differentiated staking products while maintaining the underlying validator relationship and security standards institutions require.

Pye is currently in controlled beta, with Alchemy participating in early testing and market formation before broader trading functionality is introduced.

Looking Ahead

Staking infrastructure is evolving beyond simple delegation toward more structured, market-driven arrangements. We see Pye Labs' approach—building deliberately with strong technical foundations and institutional backing (including recent funding from Coinbase Ventures, Variant, and Nascent)—as aligned with how institutional-grade infrastructure should develop.

Our role is straightforward: provide the validator operations and security standards that make staking a revenue growth vector viable for institutional participants, while contributing operational insight as these markets take shape. This partnership is our contribution to building that foundation.

Get in touch with us to learn how validators can help your business grow revenue.