Jito vs Lighter

Jito offers liquid staking on Solana with MEV‑sharing that redistributes validator MEV and priority fees to JitoSOL holders. Its client integrates the open‑source Jito Labs validator, which has captured up to 60 % of Solana MEV slots. In April 2025 Jito launched a restaking beta aligned with the upcoming Solana Firedancer client.

Lighter is a fully-verifiable decentralized exchange built as a zero-knowledge rollup on Ethereum, delivering high-frequency trading performance with onchain security and composability. Its custom ZK circuits prove every operation — including order matching and liquidations — with millisecond latency and the ability to process tens of thousands of orders per second. The optimized matching engine enables zero fees for retail traders and highly competitive pricing for high-frequency strategies, while deposits, withdrawals and proofs are verified publicly on Ethereum. Lighter's mainnet is live, offering low-cost, low-latency perpetual trading backed by transparent, cryptographically-secured settlement.