Lightspeed Inside Jito’s New Solana Plugin Strategy | Eric & Hayden
May 9, 2026
They dig into Jito’s Maker Prioritization Plugin and how deterministic scheduling can reshape on-chain market microstructure. Conversation covers BAM architecture, 50ms batch ticks, and validator incentives that affect top-of-batch dynamics. They explore plugins for novel execution models, perp and prediction market needs, and why UX and distribution will matter for broader on-chain trading adoption.
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Jito Announced JTX At Solana Accelerate
- Jito announced JTX at Solana Accelerate and staffed a booth that drove many signups.
- Hayden attended Accelerate, noted the dev days and lively discussions, and said the JTX announcement went as well as it could have.
50ms Batch Scheduling Gives Market Makers Deterministic Quotes
- BAM scheduling in 50ms batches lets market makers achieve a new level of determinism for quote updates.
- Jito's Maker Prioritization Plugin deduplicates multiple updates and only lands the latest by sequence number, cutting costs and stale writes.
Direct Transactions To A Maker Plugin TPU
- Send maker updates to a dedicated BAM TPU to avoid competing across heterogeneous validator schedulers.
- Use sequence numbers in instruction data so only the most recent update in a 50ms batch is applied, saving priority fees.