Jupiter Unveils JupUSD Stablecoin and Major Solana Ecosystem Upgrades

Jupiter announced seven coordinated platform upgrades at Breakpoint, headlined by JupUSD, a new stablecoin developed with Ethena that will integrate across the entire Jupiter ecosystem to allow rewards during DCA orders, limit orders, and prediction market participation.

The Solana-based decentralized exchange, which has processed $1.08 trillion in combined spot and perpetuals volume year-to-date while maintaining $2.7 billion in total value locked, framed the upgrades as solutions to fragmented data, fraudulent assets, and the absence of professional-grade tools needed for institutional adoption.

Protocol-Level Economics Across Trading Platforms

JupUSD launches next week with deep protocol-level integration that isolated stablecoins cannot replicate.

According to Jupiter executives, controlling both the dollar and the transaction platform allows synergies across use cases, creating a self-reinforcing flywheel effect.

The stablecoin will route through Jupiter’s existing infrastructure, handling billions in stablecoin volume via swap aggregation, perpetuals, and lending, completing what the company called an end-to-end stack.

The launch arrives as Solana’s stablecoin infrastructure expands through institutional partnerships, with Western Union planning to launch its US Dollar Payment Token through Anchorage Digital Bank in the first half of 2026 for international remittances.

The Solana Foundation also partnered with Korean blockchain infrastructure company Wavebridge to build a compliance-ready KRW-pegged stablecoin following South Korea’s preparation of regulatory framework legislation, with Wavebridge CEO Jongwook Oh stating the collaboration seeks to create structures where the stablecoin is “not only issued but also verified, controlled, and fit for institutional use.“

Additionally, Jupiter Lend exited beta and became fully open source after reaching $1 billion in total supply within eight days, the fastest growth rate for any Solana protocol in history.

Now, the lending protocol is built with Fluid and introduced tick-based liquidity, allowing all risky positions to be liquidated in a single transaction and allowing Jupiter to offer the highest loan-to-value ratios and the lowest liquidation penalties in decentralized finance.

Developer Tools and Data Infrastructure

The newly launched Developer Platform consolidates real-time analytics across all Jupiter APIs, giving builders visibility into logs, usage patterns, and performance metrics through a unified dashboard that tracks every swap, pricing call, and token API request.

Developers can now debug issues by investigating 429 errors, 500 errors, and downtime events through comprehensive logs designed to help teams ship more efficiently.

Jupiter Terminal consolidated trading for all asset classes into a single platform featuring real-time wallet tracking, Alphascan’s analytics across 61-plus launchpads with developer blacklisting, and professional execution tools, including one-cancels-other orders and partial fills.

The terminal leverages Ultra v3, Jupiter’s proprietary end-to-end trading engine that powers features like Jupiter Beam and Predictive Execution, technology adopted by Robinhood for its own operations.

Meanwhile, VRFD expanded beyond token verification into a full, trusted data layer to address Solana’s challenge of 30,000 daily token launches, most of which are scams or imposter tokens.

VRFD now verifies metadata and provides high-signal insights across all surfaces, including Jupiter mobile and APIs, building on Jupiter Verify’s position as the most trusted token verification system powering nearly every wallet, terminal, and explorer in decentralized finance.

Acquisition Strategy Extends Lending Capabilities Beyond Traditional Assets

To amplify adoption and scalability, Jupiter acquired Rain.fi to expand its money market capabilities to off-chain, long-tail, and long-duration assets that previously lacked viable on-chain pathways.

Rain.fi’s Offer Book, a specialized orderbook launching in Q1, will enable simpler, more transparent liquidity access without price-based liquidations, making every on-chain asset productive through peer-to-peer lending models that scale through Jupiter’s integration infrastructure.

The Rewards Hub unified rewards, trading activity, and referrals into one system with a $1 million pool tied to real contributions, addressing what Jupiter called fragmented on-chain incentives disconnected from actual usage.

Jupiter’s coordinated upgrades across data infrastructure, execution tools, lending protocols, and developer resources represent what executives called “deliberate upgrades to systems already powering hundreds of millions of users, traders, and builders” rather than entirely new products.

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