Lightspeed The Jito Endgame with Lucas Bruder
Dec 3, 2025
Lucas Bruder, Co-founder and CEO of Jito, shares insights into the future of Jito and Solana, diving into concepts like Block Assembly Marketplaces (BAM) and the sandwiching problem in Solana trading. He highlights the transparency BAM brings to transaction sequencing and its significance for traders. Lucas also discusses the biggest opportunities for Jito in 2026, the potential of application-controlled execution, and how these innovations can reshape validator economics and trading efficiency on Solana.
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Transparent, Confidential Block Assembly
- BAM is a transparent block assembly marketplace that schedules inside a trusted execution environment to provide confidentiality and verifiable software versions.
- Lucas Bruder argues this combination brings necessary transparency and privacy to Solana's transaction sequencing.
Wide Sandwiching Hides The Culprit
- Wide sandwiching shifts the problem across leaders so on-chain labels can miss the true source of frontrunning value leakage.
- This makes transaction sequencing opaque and degrades pricing and UX for traders and market makers.
Open Source BAM, Add Plugins And ACE
- Make BAM open source and expose attested software versions so traders and apps can verify node behavior before trusting it.
- Offer plugins and ACE so applications can control sequencing without forking the network.