Sanctum’s Active Staking Rewards program is officially wrapping up. The CLOUD-7 proposal to distribute 15 million $CLOUD tokens to eligible stakers passed through MetaDAO’s decision markets on August 14, marking the final installment of the Solana liquid staking protocol’s incentive program.
For stakers who’ve been locking up $CLOUD tokens, this is the last paycheck from a program that’s been a core part of Sanctum’s community incentive structure. Claim details are expected to follow shortly, according to Sanctum’s Investor Relations team.
How MetaDAO’s market-based governance works
Sanctum transitioned to MetaDAO’s governance framework in early 2025, replacing conventional token-weighted polling with conditional decision markets. The system creates two tokens for each proposal, PASS and FAIL, and lets the market price them. Whichever token trades higher effectively determines the outcome.
Proposal trading for CLOUD-7 kicked off on August 11, giving the market three days to settle on a verdict. The result: approval.
