{"id":406483,"date":"2025-09-28T17:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/jito-launches-bam-on-solana-mainnet-amid-rising-competition-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:05:13","slug":"jito-launches-bam-on-solana-mainnet-amid-rising-competition-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/jito-launches-bam-on-solana-mainnet-amid-rising-competition-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Jito launches BAM on Solana mainnet amid rising competition – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jito has launched its Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM) on the Solana mainnet, marking a major transition from its proprietary block engine to an open-source framework.<\/p>\n

The rollout, confirmed<\/a> on Sept. 25, introduces a new architecture for block construction that emphasizes transparency, privacy, and application-level customization.<\/p>\n

Validators are now onboarding to BAM, which allows developers to use a plugin framework enabling \u201capplication-controlled execution\u201d (ACE) for custom ordering logic in trading platforms, including central limit order books and derivatives exchanges.<\/p>\n

The shift could significantly expand Solana\u2019s developer ecosystem. Cindy Leow, co-founder of Drift, said BAM could help realize Solana\u2019s long-stated ambition of becoming an \u201conchain NASDAQ.\u201d JitoDAO, the community governance arm of the protocol, stands to benefit directly.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, $JTO holders unanimously voted to redirect Jito Labs\u2019 share of engine and BAM fees to the DAO. Jito co-founder Lucas Bruder estimates that BAM could generate an additional $15 million in annual revenue on top of the $4.7 million earned in Q3.<\/p>\n

Jito already dominates Solana infrastructure, with more than 97% of the network using its validator client and its liquid staking token, jitoSOL, commanding the largest market share. However, competition is emerging.<\/p>\n

On September 23, rival infrastructure provider Raiku announced it had raised $13.5 million across pre-seed and seed rounds, with Pantera Capital leading the latest financing. Meanwhile, Anza is upgrading its Agave validator client to improve speed and reliability.<\/p>\n

Updated 9\/26\/2025 at 4 p.m. ET to correct the raise amount for Raiku. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

This article was generated with the assistance of AI and reviewed by editor\u00a0Jeffrey Albus<\/a>\u00a0before publication.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Jito has launched its Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM) on the Solana mainnet, marking a major transition from its proprietary block engine to an open-source framework. The rollout, confirmed on Sept. 25, introduces a new architecture for block construction that emphasizes transparency, privacy, and application-level customization. Validators are now onboarding to BAM, which allows developers to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-406483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406486,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406483\/revisions\/406486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}