Solana (SOL) saw a sharp price jump on July 22, briefly hitting $204 after Jito Labs announced the launch of Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM). BAM is a new system designed to improve transaction sequencing and block building on the network.
The price of SOL broke the weekly resistance zone at $187 to reach a new high of $204, a level last reached in February 2025. At the time of writing, Solana was trading at $200.19, still up over 5.62% on the day after some profit-taking.
Solana is widely known for its high throughput and low transaction fees. Jito Labs, one of the leading MEV and infrastructure developers for Solana, aims to boost both efficiency and transparency in transaction processing with BAM. And this development could further increase the adoption of Solana blockchain.
BAM introduces a new transaction processing system that includes a network of nodes, a transaction execution layer for validators, and a software layer of plugins. These BAM nodes will operate within Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), specialized hardware that keeps transactions encrypted until execution and provides cryptographic attestations of transaction ordering, according to its official blog.
Jito believes this new approach can reduce harmful MEV strategies, such as sandwich attacks, while enabling on-chain attestation for full audit trails.
The blog also notes that BAM will support ecosystem-driven solutions, allowing developers to build CLOBs, perpetual exchanges, dark pools, and other financial primitives that require sequencing control, determinism, and privacy.
Initially, Jito Labs will run the BAM nodes to test functionality and security. In the near term, selected validators such as Triton One, SOL Strategies, Figment, Helius, and other Solana-aligned operators will also be allowed to run BAM clients. And a number of leading apps on Solana will begin building and testing the first batch of plugins at the same time.
Other than this move, Solana has also seen an increase in market cap, currently having over $105 billion in market capitalization. There has also been stronger institutional appetite in the cryptocurrency, one of which is the recent $200M secured by Mercury Fintech for Solana Treasury.
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