How to Create a Staking Website on Solana: A Guide for Project Creators

If you want your token to have its own site where people can stake it, you’ve come to the right guide. Here we’ll walk you through how to create a staking website on Solana the easy way, with zero code.

And not just that. You’ll have it live in just 5 minutes. Yes, you can reward your community without coding and without spending a dime. Let’s jump straight into the step-by-step.

By the way, if video is more your thing, here’s the tutorial in your preferred format:

What is a token staking dApp on Solana

A token staking dApp on Solana is a decentralized application that lets holders of a token lock it up for a set period in exchange for rewards in another token (or the same one). Staking is one of the most widely used mechanisms by projects in the ecosystem to incentivize token retention, reduce sell pressure and build an active community.

Unlike Solana’s native staking (which validates transactions with SOL), a token staking is specific to your project: you decide which token gets locked, which token is paid out as a reward, for how long and under what conditions.

How to create your staking website on Solana: step by step

Smithii offers the Solana Token Staking Builder, a no-code tool to create your own staking dApp in just a few minutes. The free plan covers the full basic flow: configuring the staking token, the reward token, the lock time and deploying the contract on-chain.

Step 1. Access the Solana Token Staking Builder

After clicking “Create now”, we’ll enter an email address to create our account and click “Create”

Then we enter the staking details: “Your Name” and “Project Name” to identify our staking, and “Staking URL” to customize the shareable link for our staking.

Important: in the Staking URL field we’ll only enter the extension, meaning what comes after the /. For example, if we enter “My Staking Project”, the final URL would be: https://stake.smithii.io/my-staking-project. As you can see in the example, URL syntax doesn’t keep uppercase letters or spaces.

Next, we click “Select Wallet” and connect the wallet that holds the staking token and the reward token, then click “Continue”.

Step 2. Customize your staking site

Once inside the builder, we’ll find an interface with customization options.

You’ll see a window with options to change colors, logo, background, menu (navigation), on chain setup (the staking configuration itself) and upgrade your plan. The last one unlocks premium options like custom logo and background, among other things.

At the bottom of the interface you’ll see a live preview of the color changes as you interact with them.

Tweaking the “Navigation” options lets you customize the menu of your Solana Token Staking Site. URL is where you send your users and “Tag” is the text shown. You can also add your project’s social links.

Step 3. Configure the on-chain pool

This is the section that defines the staking rules. Here you add the two tokens in the flow: the staking token (the one users lock) and the reward token (the one they earn back). They don’t have to be the same: you can ask people to stake your token and reward them with SOL, USDC, or any other asset.

The connected wallet is set as the «Authority Wallet» of the staking immutably. The parameters you configure on this screen are:

• Staking Token: your project’s token that users will lock. It can be a standard token or a meme coin. If you haven’t created it yet, check out the guide to create a meme coin on Solana.
• Reward Token: the token you pay rewards in. It can be the same as the staking token or a different, more attractive one (USDC, SOL, WIF, BONK). The pick depends on your incentive strategy.
• Reward Token Amount to Deposit: the total amount of reward token you fund the pool with. Stakers get paid out from this, so size it based on the emission rate you’ve set.
• Add Extra Fee: a premium plan option. On the free plan Smithii retains 0.008 SOL per staking transaction; on premium it drops to 0.002 SOL and you can stack your own extra fee on top of that base.
• Reward Token Quantity per Day: amount of reward token paid per staking token, per day. This is the effective APR expressed as a fixed amount; it depends only on your strategy.
• Minimum Stake Amount: the minimum amount of tokens a user has to lock to enter the pool. Useful for filtering out dust and keeping the pool economically healthy.
• Lock Time (minimum staking days): the minimum number of days tokens stay locked before the user can withdraw rewards. A longer lock time cuts churn but also reduces willingness to join.

On the premium plan you can spin up more than one reward pool in the same dApp, which gives you room to segment by strategy (e.g. one pool at 7 days with a lower APR and another at 90 days with a higher APR).

Step 4. Deploy your Staking dApp

Once we’ve finished customizing the Staking of our own Token on Solana, we can click “Deploy”. This works as if we were creating our own Staking smart contract on Solana.

We’ll get a preview of the authority wallet, our staking token, and the rewards token, so we can review and tweak before moving on. Once we’re sure, we hit “Continue”.

After that, we’ll see the payment summary. Don’t worry: if you went with the free options on the basic plan, you won’t be charged anything.

Click “Finish”, approve the blockchain transactions and that’s it. We’ve got our own Solana Token Staking site live.

How much it costs to create a staking dApp on Solana

Creating the dApp with the Solana Token Staking Builder from Smithii on the free plan costs zero: there’s no charge for the deploy or for basic customization. What does apply is a 0.008 SOL fee retained per staking transaction your users make. On the premium plan that drops to 0.002 SOL and you can add your own fee on top of that base, plus you unlock full logo and background customization and multiple reward pools.

You also need to factor in the capital you deposit as the reward token pool. That amount is up to you based on your target APR and the pool’s time horizon. It’s not a fixed cost of the tool.

Things to consider before launching your staking

Before hitting deploy, it’s worth being clear on three points that affect both the pool’s sustainability and the staker experience.

• Size the reward pool correctly: if reward per day × expected stakers × days drains the reward pool too early, staking runs out of rewards and trust breaks. Model a realistic scenario before locking in the «Reward Token Quantity per Day».
• Balance the lock time: a very short lock makes it easy to join but doesn’t reduce sell pressure; a very long one kills participation. For new tokens, 7 to 30 days is the sweet spot, with tiered options if you’re on premium.
• Authority Wallet is immutable: the wallet you link the staking with is locked in forever as the authority. Use a wallet dedicated to the project, ideally hardware or multisig, not a personal wallet you’ve got connected to other sites.

FAQ about token staking on Solana

Do I need to know how to code to create a staking dApp on Solana?

No. With the Solana Token Staking Builder the flow is fully no-code: create an account, connect your wallet, configure the two tokens and the pool parameters, then deploy by signing a transaction. No manual contract deployment, no CLI.

Can the reward token be different from the staking token?

Yes. It’s one of the key strategic calls. You can reward staking of your token with SOL, USDC, or any other liquid token to make the incentive more appealing, or pay out in the same token to reinforce a long-term holding narrative.

What happens if the reward pool runs out?

Once the pool is empty, no more rewards are paid until the Authority Wallet tops up the reward token. Stakers keep their principal stake without loss, but the yield pauses. That’s why it pays to monitor the payout rate against the remaining reward pool regularly.

Can I edit the staking parameters after deploy?

The Authority Wallet is immutable and the core pool parameters are locked in at deploy. Some secondary fields (logo, colors, navigation) can still be edited from the builder dashboard. Before hitting deploy, review every value carefully.

Is the staking URL customizable?

Yes. When you create the staking you pick an extension that gets appended to stake.smithii.io, ending up as stake.smithii.io/your-project. The syntax is URL-friendly: lowercase, hyphens instead of spaces.

Conclusion

The Solana Token Staking Builder from Smithii is a game-changing platform for token project owners who want to step into Solana DeFi without heavy development costs or complicated dev hires. Anyone can spin up their own staking website for their token in a few steps, for free.

It’s simple, customizable, and most importantly, effective for managing and incentivizing token retention.

Whether you’re looking to launch a Solana token staking website for your project or just want to explore what’s possible, Smithii Staking is worth a look.

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Juan Manuel Sanchez

Crypto writer focused on the Web3 space. Former contributor to the Smithii editorial team.