Jito has launched JTX, a new self-custodial trading platform designed to provide professional-grade DeFi tools for Solana users. The platform supports spot trading across a wide range of Solana assets, including SOL, tokenized real-world equities, memecoins, and stablecoins, while enabling traders to retain direct control over their assets.
By integrating advanced order execution capabilities such as limit orders, automated execution, and conditional trades, JTX connects users to Solana’s onchain settlement infrastructure without relying on centralized custody. This approach addresses the growing need for sophisticated decentralized trading interfaces that have lagged behind centralized alternatives.
Enhanced Trading Features and Asset Coverage
JTX leverages Jito’s existing infrastructure components like Block Engine, JitoSOL, BAM, and the JTO governance token to improve execution efficiency within the Solana ecosystem. The platform encompasses a wide variety of asset categories, including tokenized exchange-traded funds and other blockchain-represented real-world assets, with plans to introduce perpetual futures, prediction markets, and mobile trading access in the future.
Solana’s decentralized exchange activity surged during the first half of 2026, capturing a significant portion of global spot DEX volume and driving increased demand for onchain trading solutions. JTX enters this expanding market with a new fee-sharing model that allocates 80% of trading fees to the Jito DAO for JTO token buybacks and burns, while 20% is distributed to referrers based on their network’s trading activity.
Tokenized real-world assets on Solana have grown to billions of dollars by mid-2026, with tokenized equity volumes rising notably in the second quarter. JTX aims to strengthen Solana’s position in onchain financial markets by combining professional trading functions with the security and ownership benefits of blockchain self-custody.
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