Jito builds the blocks for validators holding over a third of Solana's stake. As of today, it has three coworkers. In training.
Jito named Triton One, Bitwise and SOL Strategies the first outside operators for BAM, its block-building network that orders transactions inside sealed hardware before they reach the validator. Until now, Jito ran every BAM node itself. As of early October, validators with 37% of Solana's stake were connected.
The newcomers start on testnet. Early mainnet, limited to their own validators, is expected before year-end; any validator, early Q1 2027. That last step waits on a verifier that checks block producers actually follow BAM's ordering, still in development. None of the three got extra incentives to join.
Decentralization's first hires are working for exposure.