2026-10-06

Trench lessons — 2026-10-06

Key takeaways
  • Platform updates
  • Wash-trading fingerprints

Platform updatesevidence: no breaking change this week

  • Jito. BAM preconfirmations went live on Sep 9 as a paid, partner-gated product. Classic bundles are unchanged. One C-grade source says tip floors may reprice in October after a Q3 subsidy ends, so use live tip-floor data rather than a fixed tip.

Wash-trading fingerprintsevidence: context for coin checks

  • Bitquery traced 12 h of Solana wash trading to three funders. One seeded 200 bots with exactly 0.5 SOL in 52 s. Wash wallets show buy/sell ratios of 0.95 to 1.00, 170+ trades each and about $13 average trades. Data is from April, published recently. Grade C/B.

Sources

  1. https://solana.com/upgrades/alpenglow
  2. https://cryptoticker.io/en/solana-alpenglow-mainnet-date-missed/
  3. https://t.me/s/pump_tech_updates
  4. https://www.techflowpost.com/en-US/newsletter/138766
  5. https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/25289
  6. https://docs.raydium.io/products/launchlab/overview
  7. https://dev.to/coolbb/the-latest-jito-update-bam-preconfirmations-are-live-284a
  8. https://bitquery.io/blog/solana-volume-numbers-are-a-lie

Evidence grades: A = large dataset, B = official docs, C = vendor/thread/small sample. Research notes for education only. Not financial advice.