The Market Layer Engine: How Jito brings the next billion Solana users onchain

Most builders think of infrastructure as something that runs underneath their product. Jito is infrastructure that runs through it. Over 95% of Solana's active stake now runs on the Jito-Solana client. The Block Engine processes billions in daily transaction flow. The Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM) lets developers plug directly into transaction ordering logic, which means if you are building anything that touches trading, liquidity, yield, or execution, Jito is already part of your stack whether you know it or not. Marc, Jito's Head of APAC, breaks down how the market layer actually works and what builders can do with it. This session is directly relevant to your hackathon submission if you are building in DeFi, trading, AI agents, payments, or any product where transaction ordering and execution quality matters. You will come away understanding: How MEV works on Solana and how Jito redistributes it back to stakers and protocols rather than letting it leakHow BAM's application-controlled execution lets your protocol define custom transaction ordering - the primitive behind private trading venues, front-running protection, and moreHow JitoSOL and restaking can be composable building blocks inside your product, not just passive yield instrumentsWhat the most compelling Jito-integrated submissions have looked like in past Colosseum hackathons, and how to frame your project around the market layer narrative If you have been building without thinking about MEV, this session will change how you see your own architecture.For those that cannot attend IRL, we gotchu! Dial-in here: meet.google.com/ccf-pjhr-chz