Jupiter (JUP) is a Solana DEX aggregator that routes swaps across many exchanges for the best price, and JUP is its governance token.
Jupiter lets a user place an order in one interface while it compares Solana's many liquidity pools in the background and executes the trade at the most favorable price and route. For that reason, Jupiter is widely known as a main trading gateway for buying and selling tokens on Solana.
Jupiter has expanded beyond simple swaps into an all-in-one trading platform offering perpetual futures (perps), scheduled automatic buying (DCA), limit orders, a token launchpad and a mobile app.
Jupiter has also moved into lending (Jupiter Lend) and stablecoin products, aiming to bring Solana's main trading and financial functions into a single app.
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Jupiter launched the JUP token on January 31, 2024 with a large free distribution (airdrop) to real users, and its annual January airdrop has since been known as Jupuary.
Jupiter DAO voted in early 2026 to cut the 2026 Jupuary allocation from 700 million to 200 million JUP and to shift rewards toward long-term stakers, according to the 2026 Jupiter DAO vote results. Jupiter uses votes like this to emphasize user-driven governance.
JUP is the governance token of Jupiter DAO; holders stake JUP to vote on major proposals such as airdrops, treasury spending and ecosystem grants.
On supply, Jupiter DAO voted in January 2025 to burn 3 billion of the original 10 billion JUP total supply, per the Jupiter DAO announcement. Jupiter also announced in early 2025 a buyback policy that directs part of protocol fees to purchasing JUP, and in November 2025 a DAO proposal passed to burn part of the bought-back tokens, per Jupiter DAO notices.
Jupiter's roadmap aims for a Solana-based super-app that combines swaps, perps, lending, a launchpad and mobile in one place.
Jupiter is pursuing stronger liquidity aggregation, new financial products and service expansion through acquisitions of other projects, and in 2026 Jupiter DAO has also been discussing supply management that reduces new token emissions.
Jupiter's business is closely tied to the Solana ecosystem, so outages or declining activity on Solana can affect Jupiter's trading volume. Competition from rival aggregators, trading bots and centralized exchanges is another factor.
Jupiter's volume can swing sharply with memecoin trading activity, and JUP's circulating supply can change with team and airdrop unlock schedules and DAO decisions. This article is for information only and is not investment advice; investment decisions remain your own responsibility.
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