Bitwise, Triton One and SOL Strategies join Jito BAM as first third-party node operators
Jito said Bitwise, Triton One and SOL Strategies will become the first third-party operators for BAM nodes, with deployment set to begin on the BAM testnet. Until now, every BAM node on both testnet and mainnet had been run by Jito itself. The company outlined a three-step rollout: testnet deployment inside confidential virtual machines on bare-metal hardware; an early mainnet phase in which migrated nodes will serve only the operators’ own BAM validators, targeted before the end of 2026; and a full mainnet phase open to any validator, targeted for early Q1 2027. Jito said that final stage depends on two features still under development: Attestations, and a Verifier plus Autobahn system designed to check whether block producers follow the transaction order assigned by BAM nodes and automatically ban ordering violations. Jito also said the first batch of operators did not receive additional economic incentives, and that it will later publish both the onboarding process for new operators and the economic model for sustaining node operations.
