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Jito Labs Appoints Rebecca Rettig as Chief Legal Officer

The industry veteran will oversee legal, compliance, and policy strategy for Solana’s premier blockchain infrastructure developer January 16, 2025 – Jito Labs, one of the teams supporting the development of the Jito ecosystem, today announced the appointment of Rebecca Rettig as its Chief Legal Officer, effective January 20, 2025. In her new role, Rettig will oversee all legal, compliance, and policy matters at Jito Labs as it scales its products and its work in the broader Jito and Solana ecos

January 16, 20252 min read

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January 12, 20244 min read

mev wif me: a story about mev, solana, and a dog wif a hat.

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

ProductMay 25, 20232 min read

Jito Block Engine Expands Access to All Solana MEV Traders

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.

March 21, 20232 min read

Solana MEV-Validator Server Program: Jito & Latitude.sh Partnership

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.

August 11, 20222 min read

Announcing our $10M Raise

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.

EngineeringProductJuly 5, 20223 min read

Introducing the First Solana MEV Dashboard

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

EngineeringNovember 23, 20217 min read

Solana Validator 101: Transaction Processing

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.