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Flowra Launches Open Orderflow Auction, Bringing Ethereum's Block-Building Market to Solana

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By the middle of 2026 a single validator client was running under more than 95% of the stake securing Solana, and the tips it collected accounted for more than 60% of every priority fee paid on the network. That is not a competitive market. It is a utility with one meter.

Flowra launched its Open Orderflow Auction, a block-building framework for Solana that lets registered searchers bid openly for transaction inclusion rather than routing flow through closed channels. The Seoul-based company is also shipping Programmable Block Policy, which lets a validator define its own transaction inclusion rules at the block-building layer, and it has already announced a collaboration with compliance provider Honeypot to bring sanctions and risk screening into that layer.

The claim underneath it sounds backwards on first hearing. Expose orderflow to more competitors and validators earn more, not less. It is a claim with a precedent.

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