Jito

Jito receives a C+ risk grade (38/100) from Hindenrank, where lower scores indicate lower risk. Moderate risk — dominant Solana staking position comes with unresolved MEV exploitation and depeg concerns Solana's largest liquid staking protocol, letting you stake SOL and receive JitoSOL that earns extra yield from trading profits captured on the network. It manages $1.2B in staked assets with $64M in funding. Its C grade reflects ongoing problems with validators exploiting traders through sandwich attacks and the risk of JitoSOL losing its peg during a market crash.

The key risks identified for Jito are: (1) Validators using Jito have been caught front-running regular traders' swaps, extracting 30,000-60,000 SOL per month despite 15+ validators being banned (2) If Solana's price drops fast, JitoSOL could trade at a 10-15% discount because there is not enough liquidity for everyone to sell at once (3) Most of Solana's validators run Jito's software. A single bug in that software could take down the majority of the network.

Jito scores 38/100 across eight risk dimensions: Mechanism Novelty: 8/15, Interaction Severity: 8/20, Oracle Surface: 0/10, Documentation Gaps: 2/10, Track Record: 5/15, Scale Exposure: 7/10, Regulatory Risk: 2/10, Vitality Risk: 6/10. The highest risk area is Scale Exposure at 7/10.

Among 81 rated Liquid Staking protocols on Hindenrank, Jito ranks #69 by safety (lowest risk score = safest). Its 38/100 risk score and C+ grade place it among the riskier Liquid Staking protocols.

Jito scores 5/15 on the Track Record risk dimension, indicating some history of security incidents or exploits. Higher scores reflect more severe or frequent incidents. Review the full risk report for details.