BAM Monthly Roundup – November 2025

November was a big month for BAM, with stake more than doubling, the first public release of the BAM Explorer, and key governance progress around JIP-28.

Over 30M in SOL stake

BAM-connected stake continued to grow in November, increasing from around 17M SOL in October to over 30M SOL by end of month, representing close to 8% of total mainnet stake.

New validators joining BAM this month include Overclock, Solana Compass, P2P and QuickNode.

BAM Explorer

V1 of the BAM Explorer went live in November, giving the community a real-time window into BAM network activity.

The Explorer allows anyone to:

• View total connected stake and its evolution over time
• See which validators are currently connected to BAM
• View live BAM Nodes and connected validators

Over time, the Explorer will become the primary source of truth for BAM Node performance, validator participation, and network-level metrics, including integration with future tools like BARS (BAM Attestation Report Service).

Engineering

The engineering team continues to focus on reliability and performance of the BAM node.

On the reliability side, we’ve made great progress in the last month, greatly improving the block size and transaction count compared to where we were a few weeks ago.

On the performance side, BAM validators earn rewards similar to Jito-Solana, Frankendancer, and Agave validator clients. We’ve made great progress in profiling and speeding up packet deserialization and block packing performance inside the BAM node. There is still more work to be done here and expect to see even more improvements over the coming weeks.

With the BAM node reliability and performance in a great state, we are taking another look tuning the performance of our TEE software stack. Today, we already leveraged vCPU thread pinning, CPU affinity, IRQ management, and hardware-accelerated packet steering. This configuration has allowed us to achieve benchmark numbers for Solana codepaths within a few percent of bare metal, but we believe we can do better. We will continue to investigate further improvements into our main bottlenecks to push our TEE stack to be as fast as physically possible.

Governance

JIP-28, “Accelerating BAM Adoption,” progressed from forum discussion to a full governance vote in November. Voting concluded on December 1st, with the proposal approved by a clear majority.

JIP-28 introduces an incentive framework that directs a portion of JitoSOL stake toward BAM-enabled validators, aligning stake incentives with early adopters and helping accelerate network-wide BAM growth.

Upcoming Milestones

Implementation of JIP-28

With JIP-28 now approved, the next step is implementation, which is expected to begin in mid-December. This includes:

• Rolling out the updated incentive framework based on the tiered delegation outlined on the proposal
• Monitoring validator participation and stake migration into BAM
• Iterating on parameters based on observed network behavior and feedback from validators

Firedancer integration (FireBAM)

Firedancer integration with BAM has entered its initial audit phase, with launch targeted for early Q1.

Q1: Open Sourcing and Node Operator Expansion

Looking ahead to Q1, two major initiatives are on the roadmap:

• Open sourcing BAM code: Making the BAM codebase public will improve transparency, allow for broader community review, and enable external contributions from validators, researchers, and application developers
• Initiating third-party node operator onboarding: BAM will begin onboarding third-party node operators beyond Jito Labs, to help increase geographic and operator-level decentralization.

Get in touch

If you’re a validator or developer interested in getting involved with BAM, we want to hear from you!

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