Hubra Staked SOL Review 2026: Native and Liquid raSOL

Hubra is a Solana validator and SOL staking app. The homepage says it has operated since 2020 and receives delegation from the Solana Foundation, stake pools and Solana protocols. It lists 125,908 SOL of validator stake and about six years of operation.

The app offers two ways to stake. Native staking delegates SOL directly to the validator. Liquid staking issues raSOL, a receipt token that keeps SOL working while it can be used elsewhere on Solana. On-chain data lists about $12 million in total value locked, a figure that has moved little over the past week.

Hubra also promotes instant unstake, routed through Sanctum, and a separate USDC Earn product. The project has no token of its own, and two audits are listed for it. The audit details are not in its homepage.

When you stake natively, your SOL stays in a stake account in your wallet and its voting rights are delegated to Hubra's validator. The validator takes part in Solana consensus, and the network mints new SOL each epoch, roughly 2.5 days, and pays it to delegators in proportion to stake. Rewards restake automatically by default.

Liquid staking works differently. You deposit SOL and receive raSOL, a token that represents your staked position. Its value against SOL rises as rewards accrue, and the homepage shows an example rate of 1.2043 SOL per raSOL. Because raSOL is transferable, it can be used across Solana DeFi while the underlying SOL keeps earning.

To exit, slow unstake returns SOL after about one epoch at no cost. Instant unstake lets you leave a native or raSOL position in one transaction, with the cost paid as price impact quoted by Sanctum.

Hubra does not publish a fee schedule in its homepage, so the validator commission and any liquid staking fee are not stated here. Users can check these in the web app and the docs before staking.

Slow unstake is described as free and takes about one epoch. Instant unstake carries a small fee that is paid as price impact and quoted live by Sanctum, so the cost depends on available liquidity at the time.

Native staking keeps SOL in your own stake account, and the homepage says it has no smart-contract surface. The main risks there are those of the Solana network and the validator's performance. Liquid staking adds smart-contract risk, plus the chance that raSOL trades below its redemption value when liquidity is thin.

Two audits are listed for the project, but the auditors and findings are not given in its homepage, so readers should look for reports in the docs. The homepage links open source code. It does not name a team or state any regulatory status, and no incidents are mentioned in the material reviewed. Only stake what you can afford to have exposed to smart-contract risk.

Hubra is for SOL holders who want to earn staking rewards with a validator that has run since 2020. Those who value simplicity can stake natively. Those who want to use their staked SOL in other Solana DeFi apps can take the raSOL route.