What is Jito (JTO)? Information About JTO Token

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What is Jito?

Jito is a special liquid staking protocol that allows users to stake SOL (Solana’s token) and receive a liquid staking token called JITOSO. Create many usage opportunities to maximize profits. The unique thing about Jito is integrating rewards from MEV (Miner Extractable Value). Help support users so they can maximize profits compared to conventional solutions.

Jito is the only liquid staking protocol that offers users the opportunity to profit from both liquid staking tokens and MEV rewards. With JITOSOL, users can earn extra profits by participating in activities. For example, lending and yield farming on various DeFi platforms in the Solana ecosystem.

Main ingredients of Jito

JITOSOL

JITOSOL is Jito’s liquid staking token and users can earn it by staking SOL into the protocol. JITOSOL holders can participate in many other profit-generating activities. Besides receiving interest from staking such as lending and yield farming on other DeFi platforms in the Solana ecosystem.

Stake

Currently, users can stake SOL directly on Jito’s website to receive JITOSOL. At a ratio of 1:1 with an APY of 6.88% (at the time of writing on December 8, 2023). Users can convert JITOSOL back to SOL after 2-3 days.

Additionally, the value of JITOSOL increases based on accumulated profits, such as 1.05 SOL per JITOSOL. This increase in value ensures that JITOSOL holders will receive profits. Regardless of how the token is stored. Furthermore, users holding JITOSOL also accumulate profits from the protocol’s MEV rewards.

MEV Rewards

Jito Foundation is an organization established with the goal of minimizing the negative impacts of MEV (Miner Extractable Value). To increase transparency and distribute profits fairly. The Jito team has announced an open source validator manager. Designed to create a competitive market in MEV mining. This manager allows organizing auctions within each block. Where validators have the opportunity to dominate the MEV of that block. Validators can bid and the leaders in each block auction can collect the available MEV.

This model brings two important benefits to the platform as follows:

Benefits for staking participants: Validators who receive funds from successful bidding will transfer a large portion of those profits to staking participants on Jito.
Mitigate bot MEV: A structured bidding process and deal placement helps minimize bot MEV. As Jito’s validator takes market share. It is expected that the number of MEV bots will decrease significantly. While users’ staking profits increased.

StakeNet

At its core, StakeNet is a network of people who manage on-chain programs. Its two main components are:

Validator History Program: This program is capable of storing three years of history for every validator on the Solana network. By providing a transparent and cryptographically verified record of past actions. Both users and on-chain programs can have an accurate view of validator behavior.
Steward Program: Leveraging the validator’s on-chain history, the manager will calculate the score and number of tokens that the validator can delegate. A collection of managers will cooperate to run the state machine. To ensure that tokens are delegated to the best performing validators. This system can operate continuously. At the same time, create a more transparent and efficient mechanism for token authorization based on authenticated historical data.

With StakeNet, Jito will play an important role in ensuring the safety of the Solana network.

Jito’s mechanism of action

Step 1: Users stake SOL into the protocol and receive JITOSOL at a 1:1 ratio. With JITOSOL. Users can participate in lending and yield farming on DeFi platforms in the Solana ecosystem.

Step 2: Jito transfers user SOL to validators capable of mining MEV. From there, these validators will participate in the block space auction process and receive MEV rewards.

Step 3: Validators’ MEV rewards will be redistributed to users.

Step 4: User JITOSOL, when held, accumulates profits from both APY rate and MEV rewards.

As of the time of writing, there have been more than 6.3 million SOLs deposited into Jito from 68,120 users. Jito has built a network of Validators with a number of up to 82.

Outstanding features of Jito

JitoSOL can be used on many DeFi protocols in the Solana ecosystem such as Mango Market, Marginfi, Solend, Orca, Kamino Finance, Raydium… to earn more profits.
Users not only receive rewards from completing blocks but also enjoy additional rewards. It is about extracting MEV from the Solana network. This is an important distinction between Jito and other LSD protocols on the Solana ecosystem such as Marinade Finance or Lido Finance.
Jito bets exclusively on Validators using Client software developed by Jito Labs to improve the performance of the Solana network. This creates a unique difference in the way Jito approaches and manages Validators.
Jito will charge an annual management fee of 4% of total rewards (MEV + Stake). In addition, Jito also charges a fee of 0.1% of the withdrawal value to maintain and develop its features and services.

Information about JTO tokens

Basic information about tokens

Token name: Jito
Ticker: JTO
Blockchain: Solana
Token standard: SPL
Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 JTO
Circulating supply: 115,000,000 JTO