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 shortly informed the wait time is ~2hrs (very doable).

2hrs move…and nothing (okay, that is an emergency room in spite of everything — they’ll get to you ultimately)

4hrs move (“man, they should 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 move (“how injured do you need to be to see a physician round right here?”)

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

32hrs move earlier than you understand: the nurse behind the desk is taking bribes from folks to leap the road! (Your anger is aware of no bounds)

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

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

And similar to the nurse within the above story, these mempool operators will soar your transaction to the entrance of the queue should you grease their palms slightly.

The issue is:

These fee-based mempools will 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 maintain getting pushed to the again of the road.

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

The answer?

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

Which is strictly what Jito — the largest mempool operator on Solana — has simply achieved.

However it ain’t an ideal answer…

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

Mempools aren’t a regular function of Solana. As an alternative, they’re made and operated by third celebration 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 celebration developer, known as Dong Nguyen.

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

(The identical factor may occur with mempools on Solana).