What Solana Staking Delegation Teaches Us About AI Agent Authority
Solana gives you three ways to let someone else act on your funds, and each one grants a different power. A stake authority can point your stake at a validator but can never withdraw it. An SPL Token delegate can send your tokens to any address, up to a cap you set. A liquid staking pool takes your SOL into a program's custody and hands back a token. This piece compares what each model lets a delegate do, what the three have in common, and how the differences decide which one an AI agent that pays for its own compute should get.
What Can a Stake Authority Do?
Every Solana stake account has two authorities defined at creation: a stake authority and a withdraw authority. According to Solana's stake account documentation, the stake authority can delegate the account to a validator, deactivate it, split it, merge it, and assign...
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