Overview:

This track calls for a deep dive into the composition of Jito’s role in the Solana ecosystem. We would like you to examine the impact and breakdown of Jito tips across different use-cases (telegram bots, decentralized exchanges, oracle updates, etc). Compare the usage of Jito tips vs priority fees. Your report should include a Dune dashboard or some other publicly verifiable data source. Some questions the report should aim to address:

1. What is the composition of Jito tips right now? I.e across dexes, tg bots, etc.

2. How has the composition of Jito tips evolved over time?

3. How does market volatility affect the decision to use Jito Tips vs Priority fees?

4. Are retail (telegram bots) or professional traders more likely to use tips? 

5. Did the most profitable transactions in recent memory (ie. the TrumpCoin launch) use Jito tips? How much of the profit was being tipped?

6. Are end users more likely to be time or price sensitive on average? Does this depend on market volatility?

Deliverable:

Article posted on a blogging site (for eg: Medium, Substack, Notion, etc.) that is publicly viewable upon deadline.

Judging Criteria:

1. Originality: Novelty of ideas and insights

2. Accuracy: Factual accuracy of the information and the relevance of the data used

3. Resources: Inclusion of resources to support your claims

4. Writing Style & Presentation: Quality, readability and engagement level of your content

Submission Requirements:

1. Your article will be rejected:

   • If it is not in English.

   • If the contents of the submission are less than 1,000 words

   • If it is found to be plagiarized

2. Attach links to any references, including dune dashboards and code (if you have used external sources and no references are included, your submission could be rejected on grounds of plagiarism)

3. The link to your submission should be publicly viewable on and after the submission deadline. Private links will not be eligible.