Jito tip
A Jito tip is a SOL payment to one of Jito's tip accounts that bids for your transaction or bundle to be included by validators running Jito's software. Tips go to validators and their stakers. They are separate from, and usually paid alongside, Solana's normal priority fee.
Where tips fit
Jito runs a block engine that receives transactions and bundles from traders, bots and apps. It runs an auction and forwards the most profitable combinations to validators. Jito's docs say bundles carry tip bids that are redistributed to validators and their stakers.
A tip is any instruction that transfers SOL to one of Jito's eight tip accounts. Jito's docs say a tip is necessary for a bundle to be considered, and that the minimum is 1,000 lamports. During busy periods the minimum may not be enough to win the auction.
Bundles
A bundle is a group of up to five transactions that Jito says execute sequentially and atomically, within the same slot. If any one fails, none are committed. That all-or-nothing property is why bundles are used for arbitrage and for launch-time strategies where several buys must land together.
Tip versus priority fee
For single transactions sent through Jito, the docs recommend splitting the total between a priority fee and a Jito tip, giving 70/30 as an example. Jito publishes a tip floor API and dashboard showing recent tip levels. Trojan, for example, calls it a bribe. Its FAQ says gas on Solana goes to validators, and to Jito when MEV protection is used.
What it means before you trade
A tip is a flat SOL cost per transaction, so on small trades it can matter more than the percentage fee. Turning on MEV protection can add a tip. Check the defaults, because a tip set for competitive launches is wasted on a routine swap. You can see what you actually paid by opening the transaction on an explorer.
Where this shows up
- Trojan — Solana memecoin traders outside the US and EU who want one account across a Telegram bot and a web terminal.
- BONKbot — Solana traders who want a simple Telegram bot linked to the BONK ecosystem, with a web terminal option.
- GMGN — Multichain memecoin traders who want smart-money tracking and copy trading across a web terminal and Telegram bots.
- Axiom — Desktop Solana and BNB Chain memecoin traders who want spot, Hyperliquid perps and wallet tracking in one web terminal.
- Banana Gun — Traders sniping new launches on Ethereum and other EVM chains who also want a Solana bot and a web terminal under one account.
- Maestro — Traders who want one Telegram bot for sniping and copy trading across many EVM chains plus Solana, Tron and TON.
Sources
Last checked . Fees and terms change often; the venue's own page wins if it disagrees with ours.
- Low Latency Transaction Send (Jito docs) — checked 2026-10-16
- FAQs (Trojan docs) — checked 2026-10-16