Solana Mempools = Corrupt Emergency Room Nurses (It’ll Make Sense When You Read It)

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Image this…

You’re touring and break your arm (not nice), so that you go to the emergency room (costly, sure — however that’s what insurance coverage is for).

You arrive and are rapidly instructed the wait time is ~2hrs (very doable).

• 2hrs go…and nothing (okay, this is an emergency room in spite of everything — they’ll get to you finally)

• 4hrs go (“man, they have to be slammed” — you make eye contact with the nurse on the entrance desk — she smiles as if to say “I haven’t forgotten you”)

• 8hrs go (“how injured do you must be to see a physician round right here?”)

• 16hrs go (“Dammit, I’m about to interrupt my different arm simply so I can see somebody!”)

• 32hrs go earlier than you understand: the nurse behind the desk is taking bribes from individuals to leap the road! (Your anger knows no bounds)

That ☝️ proper there ☝️ is what’s taking place on Solana proper now.

Some Solana ‘consumer’ builders (aka the oldsters liable for writing software program that lets people entry/transact on the Solana community) have created this stuff referred to as ‘mempools’ (aka ‘transaction ready rooms’).

And similar to the nurse within the above story, these mempool operators will leap your transaction to the entrance of the queue in case you grease their palms a bit.

The issue is:

These fee-based mempools may be manipulated to allow bot assaults.

Plus, in occasions of heightened exercise on the Solana community, on a regular basis customers are having gradual and clunky experiences, trigger they hold getting pushed to the again of the road.

(Which is a matter given Solana’s entire worth pitch is basically “we function on the pace of sunshine”)

The answer?

Axe the mempools and return to a ‘first in, greatest dressed’ mannequin.

Which is precisely what Jito — the most important mempool operator on Solana — has simply carried out.

But it surely ain’t an ideal resolution…

Right here’s the place it will get a bit wack-a-mole-y

Mempools aren’t an ordinary characteristic of Solana. As an alternative, they’re made and operated by third social gathering builders.

The identical means Flappy Hen wasn’t developed by the creators of our iOS/Android working programs — however as a substitute by a 3rd social gathering developer, referred to as Dong Nguyen.

And when Dong eliminated help for Flappy Hen, others noticed a possibility and began flooding app shops w Flappy Hen copy cats.

(The identical factor would possibly occur with mempools on Solana).