Jupiter
The project was developed in partnership with Ethena Labs and is issued directly on the Solana
According to a post on X by Jupiter, about 90% of JupUSD’s reserves will be held in USDtb. USDtb is a licensed stablecoin backed by shares of BlackRock’s tokenized money-market fund, BUIDL.
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The other 10% will be kept in USDC
JupUSD is an SPL token, which is the standard format for tokens on Solana. This allows it to work easily with other Solana-based applications.
Jupiter stated that the reserves are held through Porto and Anchorage Digital, with on-chain verification available to the public.
Within Jupiter’s lending product, users can deposit JupUSD to earn a yield. This yield-bearing token continues to earn returns even when used for features such as limit orders or automated dollar-cost averaging (DCA).
Jupiter also plans to add JupUSD to its perpetual trading platform, which will eventually replace USDC as the main collateral and liquidity asset.
For institutions and market makers, JupUSD supports direct on-chain minting and redemption against USDC in a single transaction on Solana.
Ethena Labs, the company behind the Ethena protocol and the issuers of USDe and USDtb, will manage JupUSD’s reserves.
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