One Company Runs 95% of Solana's Validators. Flowra's Harry Hwang Is Building the Open Alternative

On Solana, almost every transaction that needs to land during congestion runs through infrastructure one company built. Jito's client sits under more than 95% of active stake, and its tips have grown to the majority of the network's real economic value, the closest thing the chain has to a monopoly on who gets into a block, and what that access costs.

That cost isn't abstract: priority fees can spike as much as 100x in a volatile session, and a U.S. class action now alleges billions in retail losses tied to how Solana orders transactions. One provider controls the orderflow layer; one set of rules governs who wins.

Flowra wants to prise that market open, on a claim that sounds backwards: expose orderflow to morecompetitors, and validators earn more, not less. It's the bet Ethereum already ran and won. Today, Ishan Pandey sits down with Harry Hwang, CEO and co-founder...

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