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Jito serves as Solana’s infrastructure shield - by running a custom validator client on nearly 90% of the network, Jito filters transaction spam and manages block space similarly to how Cloudflare protects websites.
“We started Jito in 2021 and built out this ValidAir client and this whole system that basically tries to help Solana filter spam, like a Cloudflare.”
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On-chain markets are outperforming centralized exchanges - Solana’s efficiency has reached a tipping point where it is now often cheaper and more effective to trade assets directly on-chain than on major platforms like Binance or Coinbase.
“I think if it happens on Solana, you can download a wallet on your phone, press a few buttons, and then you have access to this whole financial system.”
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The long-term goal is a single global state machine - moving traditional finance and stocks on-chain eliminates the friction of manual KYC and restrictive purchase limits found in legacy apps like Robinhood.
“Solana was just like, we think we can synchronize this entire state machine on one network versus many different networks.”