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Market cap
$685.14M #63
Circulating supply
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All-time high
$5.328
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About Jito
Jito (JTO) is a cryptocurrency designed to optimize and enhance the Solana blockchain ecosystem. As a Liquid Staking Token (LST), JTO allows users to stake their Solana (SOL) tokens while maintaining liquidity, enabling them to earn staking rewards without locking up their assets. This dual functionality supports both individual users and institutional investors by providing a seamless way to participate in Solana's high-speed, low-cost network while contributing to its decentralization and security. JTO is also integrated into Solana's advanced infrastructure, including the Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM), which improves transaction efficiency and fairness. With its focus on scalability, transparency, and user empowerment, JTO plays a key role in driving innovation within the Solana ecosystem.
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If approved, the DAO would assume full control over protocol revenue streams, directing them to the network's tokenholders.
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99% Back Solana’s Alpenglow Upgrade to Slash Transaction Finality to 150ms
Solana validators overwhelmingly support the SIMD-0326 Alpenglow consensus upgrade with 99.60% approval.
The revolutionary consensus mechanism would replace TowerBFT with a direct voting system, reducing block finality from 12.8 seconds to as low as 100-150 milliseconds while achieving Web2-level performance.
Source: SIMD Votes
Validators Rally Behind Historic Consensus Transformation
Voting began on August 27 across epochs 840-842, with 149.3 million SOL voting in favor compared to just 592,000 SOL opposing the proposal.
Current participation stands at 36.9% of the total supply, with 459 validators casting ballots across stake levels, ranging from small operators to major liquid staking protocols.
The Alpenglow upgrade introduces Votor, a lightweight voting protocol that eliminates on-chain vote transactions through cryptographic signature aggregation.
Validators would exchange votes directly using a “20+20” resilience model, allowing the network to operate even with 20% adversarial nodes and an additional 20% of unresponsive nodes.
BREAKING: The @Solana community has entered the voting stage for proposal SIMD-0326 Alpenglow, the most significant consensus upgrade proposal in the network’s history. Designed to achieve 150ms block finality, the vote will run from epoch 840 to 842. pic.twitter.com/KqVsRy7NAu— SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor) August 27, 2025
Major staking providers, including Jito, Marinade, and Blaze, recorded strong yes votes, while individual validators across stake ranges from 100,000 SOL to over 1 million SOL support the transition.
The proposal requires two-thirds majority approval with a 33% quorum threshold, including abstentions.
Revolutionary Architecture Targets Sub-Second Block Finality
Alpenglow represents a fundamental departure from Solana’s Proof-of-History and TowerBFT mechanisms, addressing performance limitations that impose long finality delays without formal safety guarantees.
The new architecture operates through discrete time slots with randomized, verifiable leader selection managing consecutive windows.
Leaders collect transactions into blocks, split them into intermediate slices and smaller shreds, and initially distribute them via the existing Turbine protocol.
Future updates will replace the Turbine with a more efficient Rotor system, which will require separate SIMD approval for enhanced bandwidth optimization.
Moreover, off-chain voting eliminates current on-chain vote transaction requirements, removing significant bandwidth overhead, transaction fees, and processing costs.
Source: B2BInPay
Validators cast exactly one vote per slot, with conflicting votes being detectable and participation failures resulting in reward exclusion.
The Validator Admission Ticket mechanism requires a 1.6 SOL payment per epoch for participation, with fees burned to offset inflation.
The upfront cost replaces direct voting transaction fees, representing 80% of existing on-chain voting expenses.
Technically, the protocol aims to achieve consensus latency that matches Web2 performance standards while strengthening the security posture with new techniques.
Governance Evolution Drives Validator Consensus Amid Technical Concerns
While the voting is going smoothly, the community debate centers on the economic implications and implementation strategy.
While some validators expressed strong support for simplifications, which could save months of addressing TowerBFT edge cases, others were more cautious.
As a result, they suggest alternative VAT models which include pro-rata distribution based on active stake or tiered fees ranging from 0.5 to 5 SOL per epoch.
Primarily, technical concerns focus on transaction expiration policies without Proof-of-History, validator performance tracking through off-chain voting, and the lack of detailed testing and deployment plans.
Speaking with Cryptonews, Shawn Young, Chief Analyst at MEXC Research, emphasized the strategic significance of the upgrade.
“The potential 100X speed improvement could redefine layer-1 blockchain performance, making Solana attractive for high-frequency applications, payments, and large-scale decentralized finance infrastructure,” Young noted.
Young highlighted the growing institutional backing, with over $1.7 billion locked in corporate treasuries, and potential SOL ETF approvals creating structural demand.
As a result, he projects that SOL could reach $215 by the end of September and $250 by the end of Q4, provided successful implementation without technical disruptions.
The upgrade follows previous governance evolution, including the rejected SIMD-0228 dynamic inflation proposal, which failed to receive supermajority approval despite initial institutional support.
Current voting mechanics utilize an adapted Jito Merkle Distributor tool to collect stake weights and distribute tokens across ‘Yes’, ‘No’, and ‘Abstain’ addresses.
Participation patterns reveal broad validator support across stake levels, with smaller validators showing similar approval rates to major institutional operators.
Raoul Pal’s prediction, reported today, of 4 billion crypto users by 2030 provides a broader context for infrastructure upgrades like Alpenglow.
The former hedge fund manager forecasts that the crypto market capitalization will surpass $100 trillion by 2032, driven by the need for scalable blockchain performance to support debasement and adoption.
However, critics question the reliability of his wallet-based user metrics, noting that single users often maintain multiple addresses.
Nonetheless, the successful implementation of the Alpenglow consensus upgrade could trigger other blockchains to also optimize for performance and scalability, thereby supporting billions of users through sub-second transaction finality and reduced operational costs.



On Recognising Beyond Tech Superiority:
We’re now entering the phase where 'next-step adoption' means aligning cutting-edge infrastructure with credible integration paths.
3 years ago, talking about real-time (sub-second latency) on-chain would've been just vision.
Today, the tech exists but raw performance isn’t enough.
To make it, it comes with pairing technical superiority with qualitative innings: Accreditations, Go-to-Market (GTM) & distribution.
This is where @FogoChain stands out: not just with great tech, but with a strategic focus that leverages its positioning to address real institutional needs.
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Technical Insights 101:
Fogo is an SVM-compatible L1 built for institutional-grade trading. Its focus is enabling scalable, robust infrastructure that actually works in production:
🔹~40ms block times
🔹Sub-1s finality
🔹 Direct consensus-level integration for real-time data (via @PythNetwork)
Plenty of 'fast' chains exist, but most achieve speed by sacrificing the blockchain trilemma → trading off decentralisation or security to unrealistic extremes.
Fogo takes a unique approach. Its design reflects deep trading-market understanding, introducing technical novelties that balance performance with credible security:
1⃣ Unified optimised client: Built with @jump_ Firedancer, unlocking performance other networks can’t match.
2⃣ Multi-local consensus: Dynamic colocation according to regional activity enabling sub-100ms block times, unprecedented in major blockchains.
3⃣ Curated validator set: Incentivising high-performance operators while undesired predatory MEV at validator level.
This sets to achieve a realistic trade-off that preserves global censorship resistance while meeting the latency + throughput benchmarks serious capital demands.
A fine balance between decentralisation x performance.
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Beyond Tech: GTM and Distribution
Let’s be real, technical novelty is a prerequisite today, not a USP.
What truly differentiates projects is its GTM strategy and distribution.
Fogo’s focus is clear: on-chain trading (derivatives, perps, structured products). The market is massive & growing fast, where the writings are on the walls:
🔸CEX:DEX perps volumes recently hitting an 8% ATHs
🔸DEX perps growing at a 102.8% CAGR (vs. 52.8% for CEX)
But here’s the truth: just being another 'fast trading chain' won’t cut it. Leveraging on its unique architecture, Fogo’s edge is its fair market structure.
This essentially enshrines trading experience via enables frequent batch auctions reduce toxic flow + MEV.
An example would be leveraging on @jump_'s research on Dual Flow Based Auctions (DFBA) which will also serve as a new execution mechanism for @ambient_finance.
*FDBA aims to leverage on the benefits of AMMs (accessbility + simplicity) and CLOBs (tight spread + possible robust liquidity depth) for the best pricing & depth on-chain.
This positions Fogo to compete not just with DeFi incumbents like Hyperliquid, but even with CEXs: on fairness, execution quality, and user trust.
And the value doesn’t stop at trading.
Once the infra for fair, efficient markets is in place, the same architecture extends naturally to real-world finance (issuance + settlement)
This creates a second-order distribution of value: not just liquidity & trading volume, but institutional + externalised adoption.
TLDR: Fogo’s differentiator isn’t raw speed, it’s building a fundamentally better trading environment where fairness, execution & security compound into long-term distribution advantage.
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On Adoption Plausibility: Solving the Cold Start Problem
Every new chain struggles with the cold-start problem: no devs → no adoption → no devs
Most won't escape this. Fogo here takes a different route where it bypasses the loop with strategic pre-establishments:
Partnerships + integrations upfront with @jump_ @PythNetwork @ambient_finance @FluxBeamDEX @infinex @wormhole @metaplex
⇒ This essentially means that the secondary economic (app) layer is maturing with a fairly diverse range of utility primitives.
This is definitely not a 'launch fast, pray later' play here, but rather a well-thought ecosystem-led growth designed to bootstrap liquidity, trust & utility from the start.
Furthermore, Fogo’s accreditations & $13.5M in total backing speak volumes, where it's backed by entities/individuals @cmsholdings @DistributedG @BigBrainVC @kaiynne with a successful round on @echodotxyz.
This underscores strong conviction from both institutional investors and a broad community base.
Beyond capital, the team brings deep domain expertise & executional credibility:
🔹@RobertSagurton (ex-Jump Crypto/JPMorgan)
🔹@0xdoug (Ambient Finance)
🔹Michael Cahill (Pyth)
I see this as an execution-focused team with both the track record and the relationships to scale real financial infrastructure.
What makes it compelling is the structural edge: their positioning creates a self-reinforcing flywheel of value that compounds over time.
It looks like this:
Robust, tailored infrastructure + accreditation → attracts strategic partnerships + deeper development → expands distribution through app-layer integrations (cementing credibility)
which in turn strengthens accreditation + trust & repeat.
And over time, that’s how the ecosystem matures into a fully institutionalised state.
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Final Thoughts
Fogo's stands out as a 'first trader-native' L1 designed to bridge CEX-grade execution with on-chain fairness + composability.
Backed by the right team, partners & accreditations, this serves the best recipe to anchor the next phase of ecosystem establishment.
Not all infrastructure is designed the same. More importantly, not all GTMs are equal.
Fogo is one of the rare few that looks promising in both, where the setup is there for it to lead where only time will tell.
PS: There's an upcoming genesis NFT collection drop @FogoNFT where WL opportunities will be made available via testing trading competition, so stay tune.




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Market cap
$685.14M #63
Circulating supply
371.95M / 1B
All-time high
$5.328
24h volume
$31.22M
4.2 / 5

