The Solana-native token is backed by USDtb and USDC and is designed to serve as a settlement asset across Jupiter’s DeFi stack. Jupiter, a Solana-based DeFi protocol and trading platform, has launched JupUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued natively on Solana and developed in partnership with Ethena Labs. In an X post on Monday, Jupiter said 90% of the stablecoin’s reserves will initially be held in USDtb, a licensed stablecoin collateralized by shares of BUIDL, BlackRock’s tokenized money-market fund. The remaining 10% will be held in USDC as a liquidity buffer, with a secondary pool on Meteora. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Jupiter said that JupUSD is issued as an SPL token, Solana’s standard token format, allowing it to integrate across Solana-based applications. The reserves are custodied by Porto through Anchorage Digital and verifiable onchain. Read more
Solana’s leading DEX aggregator Jupiter is launching JupUSD to serve as the backbone of its ecosystem in partnership with Ethena Labs. Jupiter, a decentralized trading platform on Solana, has announced plans to launch its stablecoin in partnership with Ethena Labs. The new token, called JupUSD, is scheduled to go live in mid–Q4 2025. According to an X post on Wednesday, JupUSD will be integrated across all Jupiter products, serving as collateral on its perpetual futures exchange, a liquidity asset in Jupiter’s lending pools and a trading pair. According to Jupiter, the stablecoin will be 100% collateralized by Ethena Labs’ USDtb, a dollar-pegged token backed by short-term US Treasury assets. Over time, USDe, Ethena’s synthetic dollar, will be added as collateral to optimize yield rates. Read more