Jito's Impact on Solana with CEO Lucas Bruder
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This is an exploration of Jito, the Solana validator client, the staked Solana token JITOSOL, and MEV optimization engine.
The recent Jito airdrop show the whole industry as millions of dollars in value flooded into the Solana ecosystem.
Joining us today is Lucas Bruder from the Jito team to walk us through the basics and nuances of this multifaceted project.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
6:00 Jito Airdrop
8:45 What is Jito
12:00 Staking and Decentralization
17:20 MEV Optimization
25:20 Fees and Failed Transactions
33:20 JITOSOL
37:00 Solana Economics
42:00 Staking vs JITOSOL
45:40 Ethereum vs Solana
53:30 Jito Governance
59:15 Stakenet
1:05:40 Solana Governance
1:09:40 Choosing Solana
1:13:30 A Successful Network
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RESOURCES
Lucas Bruder
https://x.com/buffalu__?s=20
Jito Labs
https://www.jito.wtf/
Explorer
https://explorer.jito.wtf/
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| 0:00.0 | Thankless Nation, welcome to this exploration of Judo. |
| 0:06.5 | Judo is a Salana evaluator client, a staked soul token called Judo Soul and an MEV optimization |
| 0:13.0 | engine, all built into a single software suite which we call Judo. |
| 0:17.4 | Recently the Judo Air Drop shook the entire crypto industry as $200 million worth of |
| 0:21.8 | Judo is distributed to over 10,000 addresses on Salana. |
| 0:25.5 | Salana ecosystem seems to have turned a new page ever since. |
| 0:29.6 | Notably fees on Salana have started to emerge, changing the game when it comes to Salana |
| 0:33.6 | economics and Judo has found itself right at the center of this conversation. |
| 0:37.6 | Today on the show we have Lucas from the Judo team to walk us through the basics and the |
| 0:41.3 | nuances of the Judo system. |
| 0:43.5 | How does it work? |
| 0:44.5 | How is it similar to Ethereum? |
| 0:45.6 | How is it different? |
| 0:46.6 | Thankless Nation, I've been doing some of my Salana homework. |
| 0:49.2 | I think you're going to learn a ton about Salana and Judo in this conversation as well |
| 0:52.8 | as where Salana is in its development arc. |
| 0:56.2 | But first before we get into this conversation, our friends and sponsors over at Ambiere want |
| 1:00.0 | you to check out their wallet. |
| 1:02.7 | But calling it a wallet really is underselling it. |
| 1:05.5 | You've heard Ryan and I talk about account abstraction and smart contract wallets for a while |
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| 1:10.5 | The Ambiere team is shipping that into reality with their Ambiere V2 browser extension |
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