Over the past three years, Multicoin Capital has acquired a significant position in JTO, the native token of the Jito Network, across our hedge fund and venture funds.
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Executive Summary
Jito has become an essential component of Solana’s economic machine, and we believe their systems are critical infrastructure for transaction processing and block production across the Solana network. Our conviction in Jito (and its native token JTO) is deeply rooted in the structural lock-in that Jito has created across stakers, validators, frontends, and users, and their dominance in the transaction supply chain. Simply put, it is at the epicenter of a multi-sided network that keeps Solana humming.
Today, Jito is an integrated software system with three core pieces:
transaction processing and block production architecture (i.e., Jito-Solana Validator Client, and affiliated products Relayer, Shredstream, Block Engine, and Bundles),
staking architecture (i.e., JitoSOL, Jito’s liquid staking token, and Stakenet, Jito’s autonomous, decentralized stake delegation algorithm), and
restaking architecture (i.e., Node Consensus Networks including TipRouter and Vaults).
We have spoken and written extensively about MEV as a framework for valuing asset ledgers. Throughout 2024, MEV capture and redistribution moved up the stack. We expect this trend to continue for the foreseeable future. We view JTO as one of the largest beneficiaries of this movement as crypto market structure matures.
Solana is the most widely used and productive public blockchain network in existence today by a wide margin, consistently surpassing all other major chains on transaction revenue (per Dune Analytics, chart excludes tips) and trading volume (per DefiLlama) starting in Q4 2024. Since then, Solana’s REV (Real Economic Value) has exploded as a function of facilitating billions in volume, and more than half of the transaction fees on Solana are processed through the Jito system.
Source: Blockworks Research, March 3, 2025
In addition to value capture moving up the stack, we believe JTO represents the best fundamentally-sound, risk-adjusted way to get asymmetric exposure to Internet Capital Markets on Solana.
Transaction execution around hotly contested state is crucial for the functioning of a permissionless, high-performance, distributed asset ledger. The only way Solana achieves its original vision of “blockchain at Nasdaq speed” is by handling extreme amounts of ingress and egress with low latency. Jito plays a critical role in this, segmenting Solana transactions by time preference, while stabilizing the network and preventing congestion that arises from overwhelming demand for transaction inclusion.
The Jito suite of products has been instrumental in preserving user experience on Solana as the system scales. At the time of writing, over 94% of stake on Solana runs the Jito-Solana client, which has provided much needed reliability in landing transactions with consistently low median fees during high volatility events. We believe that this unlocks exponential growth at the application layer — enabling use cases like performant derivatives exchanges capable of prioritizing maker cancels, leading to tighter spreads (Drift), DePINs that rely on low-cost token transfers at scale (io.net, Render, Hivemapper, GEODNET, and Helium), new spot asset issuance and exchange platforms (Jupiter, Clearpools, and Backpack), and more.
Each of the Jito products reinforces the others. The StakeNet delegation system and JitoSOL stake pool encourage validators to run the Jito-Solana client. Running the Jito-Solana client allows validators to earn and distribute higher rewards to their stakers through more profitable block construction. Restaking helps decentralize reward distribution while adding unique utility for JitoSOL and JTO, further incentivizing use while driving incremental earnings for stakers.
As the beating heart of MEV capture and distribution across Solana, we expect Jito to capture an increasing share of the economic value generated from Solana — bundle tips, staking rewards, and restaking yields provide multiple avenues of value accrual. Our bull-case price target for JTO is $11.63, or 4.43x the 7-day TWAP price of $2.61 as of March 3, 2025 based on the assumptions and model discussed in the Valuation section of this report.
Jito is the primary beneficiary of Solana’s explosive growth, and the ticker is JTO.
Disclosure: Reviewing the assumptions included in the model in our report is important to understanding the basis for our determination of this price target and the potential for outcomes other than the bull-case.