Uri Klarman ⚔️

🌶️Spicy Solana MEV Story 🌶️

someone is manipulating Jito tips trying to make @paladin_solana  look bad 👀

while building a dashboard comparing Paladin APY to Jito APY we saw some Palidators suddenly make 20% less tips

that's weird - did we break smtn?🤔
we didn't.
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we immediately tried to fix "our" problem- it didn't work.

so 2 large validators (5M SOL each) switched back to running Jito until we solved it

👀but they **still** got 20% less tips👀

you see, the problem is NOT Paladin
Paladin didn't hurt tips.
someone shadowbanned them
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to be clear:
if a searcher wants to ban Paladins - that's their right

but it does make any data comparison meaningless ☹️

so when @HypoNyms DM validators
"the latest Paladin release killed your Jito rewards"

this is ABSOLUT BS 💩
do Ben &amp; @temporal_xyz know it's BS?
idk
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we're still analyzing the data.
we definitely see a pattern.

we KNOW that
-pro validators
-different setups
-running Jito
-suddenly make much less MEV tips

funny enough - that let us compare them to Paladin,  and Paladin clearly increases APY 😊

we'll share more soon.
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