Jito JTO
Jito (JTO) was trading at $0.4227, ranked #164 by market cap at $218.11M, with 24h volume of $28.91M.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-02 12:15 UTC.
Jito is Solana's largest liquid staking protocol, and its distinguishing feature is passing MEV revenue back to stakers: its validator client auctions block space to searchers and redistributes the proceeds rather than letting validators keep them. Depositing SOL returns JitoSOL, which earns both staking rewards and that MEV share. Jito operates in the part of Solana's stack that most users never see: the ordering of transactions within a block, and the value that can be extracted from that ordering. Its client lets validators capture that value and share it with stakers, so its staked SOL token pays a higher return than plain staking. JTO governs that protocol. This makes JTO one of the clearest MEV-linked assets on this map — its revenue rises with on-chain trading activity, so it tends to move with Solana's trading ecosystem rather than with SOL alone.
What is MEV?
Value that can be extracted by choosing the order of transactions in a block — for example by placing a trade ahead of a large known order. Jito's software lets validators capture and share it.
How does that affect staking returns?
Stakers through Jito receive a share of the extracted value in addition to normal staking rewards, so the yield is higher than plain staking.
What is JTO for?
Governance of the protocol, including how fees and captured value are handled. It is not the staked asset itself.
Why does it track trading activity?
Extractable value comes from trading flow. When on-chain volume rises, so does the revenue the protocol captures.
Market cap decides how big a bubble is drawn, so rank is what places JTO on the map relative to the rest of its sector.
| Rank | Coin | Market cap |
|---|---|---|
| #10 | Lido Staked Ether (STETH) | $17.52B |
| #108 | Ether.fi (ETHFI) | $383.03M |
| #136 | Lido DAO (LDO) | $297.96M |
| #164 | Jito (JTO) | $218.11M |
| #183 | EigenCloud (EIGEN) | $180.31M |
