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# BAM Overview (bam.dev/overview)

Source (official): https://bam.dev/overview/

## What BAM is

BAM (Block Assembly Marketplace) is described as a Solana transaction scheduling system that **separates ordering from validation**. Validators can run in different operational modes (normal validator flow, Block Engine flow, BAM mode). In BAM mode, validators execute a pre-sequenced stream.

## Privacy + trust model

The overview page describes BAM nodes operating inside TEEs (the site references AMD SEV-SNP) to maintain transaction privacy until execution, and positions BAM as a way to reduce supply-chain snooping and negative MEV.

## What Mallet should assume from this page

- There will be a **BAM Node ↔ Validator** interface.
- Observability must combine:
  - on-chain outcomes
  - validator-side metrics
  - (eventually) ordering attestations when available