On January 10 2024 at 22:20:39 UTC, 5qYuZ9ZLShLB1MuV83xHRcTgVA9A5pUajnQUUcPbk3bf (zer0xtrading.sol) made an extremely costly mistake that transferred millions of dollars from their hands into the hands of arb bots, Jito validators, and their stakers. In one transaction, they swapped 86,739.1 SOL, worth approximately $8.6M USD, for 17,225,407.03 of $WIF, a popular memecoin on Solana. Unfortunately for them, liquidity was low. During their swap, they took most on-chain liquidity, moving the price

Jito Labs now provides access to its Block Engine for any Solana MEV searcher. The Block Engine is integrated with the Jito-Solana validator client to provide searchers the first MEV infrastructure on Solana.

Jito Labs, Solana’s leading MEV infrastructure provider, and Latitude.sh, a global Bare Metal infrastructure company, have partnered to offer an unprecedented package for Solana validators.

Jito Labs is extremely excited to announce completion of a $10M Series A round co-led by Multicoin Capital and Framework Ventures with participation from Alameda Research, Solana Ventures, Delphi Digital, MGNR, Robot Ventures and 18decimal.

Today we are excited to announce the first MEV Dashboard for Solana: an explorer aimed at illuminating MEV on Solana.

Welcome to the first article in Jito Lab’s series on the Solana validator. In this article, we’ll do a technical deep dive on the lifecycle of a transaction as it moves from an unsigned transaction to a propagated block.