Austin, TX, United States, 11th August, 2022, Chainwire

Jito Labs, an MEV infrastructure company building performant systems to scale Solana, has completed a $10M Series A. The round was led by Multicoin Capital and Framework Ventures with participation from Alameda Research, Solana Ventures, Delphi Digital, MGNR, Robot Ventures, and 18decimal. Notable angels Anatoly Yakovenko, Brian Long, Armani Ferrante, Austin Federa, Edgar Pavlovsky, and Nitesh Nath also participated.

The Series A brings the company’s total financing to $12.1M. Jito Labs will use the capital for recruitment and product development and to support the first third-party validator client for Solana, Jito-Solana. This is expected to open source later this month pending the completion of a Neodyme audit.

Jito Labs is developing a suite of trading and validator tools that make MEV more democratic and accessible to traders and validators on the Solana network. Jito-Solana helps node operators earn more revenue and better utilize their hardware. It also features the first native spam-mitigation system for Solana, which helps improve network reliability. Jito-Solana also interfaces with Jito’s Block Engine, a proprietary system designed to build the most profitable and efficient blocks for the network.

“Solana is built by the most talented team in the space, but trading bots spamming transactions has resulted in a degraded experience for users and traders. The tooling we’re building at Jito will help Solana scale to support millions of users,” said Lucas, co-founder of Jito Labs. “We are backed by some of the most strategic investors in the Solana ecosystem and are thankful for their support, and the warm welcome from the Solana community.” 

“Jito is a very capable, super technical team that is putting their efforts into optimizing a Solana validator client for MEV, which is a critical use-case for the long-term health of the network,” said Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO, Solana Labs. 

In addition to validator software, Jito Labs develops tools for traders that are symbiotic with its infrastructure. Jito Bundles, which are similar to Flashbot Bundles on Ethereum, represent groups of transactions that are bundled together and executed in the order they are submitted by traders. Bundles improve liquidity, trading execution and network stability by circumventing expensive priority fee auctions and guaranteeing sequential, all-or-nothing execution.

Applications on Solana can leverage Jito’s Bundles to improve the UX around sending multiple transactions. Jito Labs also makes two additional trading tools: a priority mempool, which enables traders to see transactions at the speed they arrive on the network, and ShredStream, which provides low-latency access to shreds from leaders running the Jito-Solana client. Collectively, these tools give searchers and traders the ability to capture arbitrage opportunities and execute trades more efficiently without degrading network performance.

“Jito Labs is one of the most important companies in the Solana ecosystem. They are building critical infrastructure that improves network performance and decentralization while maximizing profits for validators around the world. Jito-Solana is a competitive advantage for validators, and an important decentralization milestone for the network,” said Tushar Jain, Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital.

Validators that run Jito-Solana are eligible to earn tips from searchers and traders using Jito Bundles to submit transactions to the network. They can also access MEV insights through the Jito MEV Dashboard.

About Jito Labs

Jito Labs is an MEV infrastructure company that is building high-performance systems to scale Solana and maximize validator rewards. Jito-Solana, the first fully open-source, third-party validator client developed for the Solana blockchain, is a better way to earn more revenue and utilize hardware. Jito Labs’s trading tools are free for use by traders and validators.
Learn more: https://jito.wtf/

Contacts

• Lucas
• Jito Labs Inc.
• lucas@jito.wtf