Block ordering insights
What buys the front of a Solana block in the last 6 hours — measured per validator on mainnet.
Blocks
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Non-vote txs
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Tipped txs
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Tips paid
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P(front20 | tip)
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vs n/a untipped · baseline 0.20
Price ordering
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1.0 strict price sort · 0.5 arrival
Median CU price by position decile
µ-lamports/CU · d0 = front of blockMedian SetComputeUnitPrice per position decile across all blocks in the window. The auction is for the front: d0 is routinely 10–100× the floor. Bar heights are sqrt-scaled; labels are true values.
What pulls a tx toward the front
Mean per-block Spearman corr of position vs driverNegative = higher value lands earlier. These are means of per-block rank correlations; weak global values can hide strong per-validator effects — see the tables below.