pico🙄.sol

Recently, more and more validators have been setting their inflation fees and MEV fees to 0%.

At pico🙄.sol, we kick back not only all inflation fees and MEV fees but also a portion of block rewards.

To maximize stakers’ profits, we initially charge a 5% inflation fee and a 10% MEV fee, then kick back an equivalent or greater amount by sending 🙄picoSOL tokens to your wallet.

🙄picoSOL tokens are deposited into wallets every epoch.

We hold the 🙄picoSOL giveaway campaign once a month for long-term stakers.

Those who have delegated 1 SOL or more to pico🙄.sol validator for over 3 months are eligible to participate.

The campaign is usually held from the end of each month to the beginning of the next month on Discord.

Please follow us on X and join our Discord for updates.

We’ve adopted the Paladin client, which enables earning Paladin’s p3 transaction rewards in addition to Jito MEV rewards.

Paladin is a project aimed at increasing validator rewards while eliminating sandwich attacks.

From a network fairness perspective, we adopted the Paladin client to help eliminate the unfair sandwich attacks.

By staking natively with the pico🙄.sol validator, you become eligible for a PAL token airdrop.

Solana's native staking is a mechanism where users stake SOL tokens to support the network's security and operations.

The staked SOL is delegated to validators, earning rewards.

These rewards are paid as compensation for participating in block generation on the network.

By staking, you can receive rewards while contributing to the security and performance improvement of the Solana network.

Our history began in May 2022 with the development of a Rust-based atomic arbitrage bot on the Solana network. With extensive expertise in Solana on-chain programs and a wealth of experience in building and managing private RPCs, we also have rich experience in operating validators.

We started operating a testnet validator in September 2022, and launched our mainnet validator in February 2024. In March 2024, picoSOL LST was issued by Sanctum, and it is now being used across various DeFi platforms.

With strong support from the Japanese Solana community, we are currently backed by around 330,000 SOL in delegations, making a significant contribution to the security of the Solana network.

Focused exclusively on the Solana network, we will continue to contribute to the healthy development of Solana in the future, without diversifying our attention to other chains.

We implement best practices for server operations

We restrict open ports, change port numbers, limit password authentication, strict key pair management, 24/7 server monitoring, and a trusted server management company

A hot spare server is always running, which also allows for version upgrades and server migrations with no downtime, minimizing server downtime

We also have a quick alert monitoring system in case of server performance issues