For Validators
How Solana validator operators earn more revenue, get fair delegation, and eliminate sandwich attack risk with Toby's OpenMEV infrastructure.
Toby gives validator operators a direct path to higher revenue, merit-based stake delegation, and clean MEV participation. No politics, no sandwich risk.
The Problem Today
Running a Solana validator is competitive, but the playing field isn't level.
Stake delegation is political, not performance-based. Who you know often matters more than how well you run your node. Large delegators pick favorites based on relationships, not metrics.
MEV revenue is concentrated. A small group of operators captures the majority of MEV, leaving most validators with table scraps.
No real way to measure validator quality. Existing scoring systems track basic metrics like uptime, vote credits, and commission. They ignore the growing MEV layer entirely.
Sandwich attacks create reputation risk. Validators processing harmful MEV bundles face backlash from the community and protocols, even when they have no visibility into what's inside those bundles.
Most validators end up stuck in a cycle of thin margins with no clear path to growth.
How Toby Fixes It
Toby introduces infrastructure and incentives that reward validators for actual performance, including MEV performance.
Toby-Solana Client
Install the Toby-Solana Client (fully Firedancer compatible, open-source) and your validator joins the OpenMEV network. You immediately become eligible to process MEV bundles relayed from Block Chef and earn MEV tips on every bundle processed. This is a new revenue stream on top of your standard staking rewards.
Validator Optimizer Delegation
Toby's Validator Optimizer autonomously delegates staked assets to the best-performing validators. The standard Steward Program relies on basic metrics like vote credits, commission, and stake rank. Toby goes further with 3 novel scoring filters:
Good MEV Measurement. Toby measures the quantity of good MEV your validator captures (arbitrage and liquidations). Sandwich attacks and other harmful extractions are excluded. Only clean, value-adding MEV counts toward your score.
Toby-Solana Client Adoption. Validators running the Toby-Solana Client receive a scoring bonus. The client improves efficiency, transaction throughput, and latency, so adopting it benefits both your score and the network.
OpenMEV Modularization Compliance. Validators that comply with OpenMEV's modular filtering framework score higher. This ensures harmful MEV patterns are stripped out before bundles ever reach your validator.
Fair MEV Participation
Every bundle your validator processes through OpenMEV has already been filtered. Sandwich attacks and other toxic extraction patterns are removed upstream by Block Chef. You process clean bundles, earn tips, and carry zero reputation risk.
How It Works
Setup to revenue flywheel, step by step:
Install and run the Toby-Solana Client. Firedancer compatible, integrates with your existing setup.
Process MEV bundles relayed from Block Chef through the OpenMEV network.
Earn MEV tips on every bundle you process, paid directly to your validator.
Get scored by the Validator Optimizer across three factors: good MEV capture, client adoption, and OpenMEV compliance.
Higher scores = more delegated stake from the optimizer's pool.
More stake = more block production = more tips. This creates a compounding revenue flywheel. Perform well, get more stake, produce more blocks, earn more tips, score higher.
Key Benefits
Additional revenue stream. MEV tips on top of standard staking rewards. Not a replacement, a multiplier.
Performance-based delegation. Stake flows to validators based on merit, not politics or relationships. Scoring is transparent and visible to all participants.
MEV-aware scoring. Goes well beyond basic Steward Program metrics. Your ability to capture good MEV is now a competitive advantage.
No sandwich attack risk. Harmful patterns are filtered before they ever reach your validator. You process only clean, compliant bundles.
Transparent competition. Every validator sees the same scoring criteria. Improve your setup, improve your score, earn more.
Get Started
Ready to unlock MEV revenue and performance-based delegation?
Validator Setup Guide: Step-by-step instructions to install the Toby-Solana Client and join the OpenMEV network.
Validator Optimizer: How the optimizer scores validators and delegates stake.
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