Jupiter JUP
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CM Profile: Jupiter
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about JUP, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on Kraken's order book lost 0.33%, on 9 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold JUP. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 9 October- Price up 16.9% since 2 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell JUP
Selling $100,000 of JUP into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken JUP/USD | 0.33% | $99,675 | 2026-10-09 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps JUP on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Jupiter is
Jupiter is the dominant trade router on Solana. Rather than holding liquidity itself, it searches the various exchanges and pools on the network and splits an order across whichever combination produces the best result, which is why a large share of Solana's swap volume passes through it even when users think they are trading somewhere else.
Around that core it has added the things active traders want — limit orders, recurring purchases, perpetual futures and a launchpad — making it closer to a full trading front end than a single tool. The JUP token was distributed in early 2024 in one of the largest airdrops ever conducted, deliberately spread across a very wide set of users.
The strategic weakness is that routing is difficult to defend. The advantage comes from execution quality and habit rather than from anything a competitor is prevented from replicating, and aggregation margins compress as rivals appear. JUP is a governance token and does not automatically confer a share of the revenue the platform generates. The remaining airdrop tranches were scheduled to arrive over subsequent years, creating known supply events. And because the business is Solana's trading activity, the token is effectively a leveraged position on that network's health.
What Jupiter can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.33% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 9 October 2026
JUP earns rewards only when it is staked in Jupiter's governance contract, which also gives a vote in the Jupiter DAO. Staked JUP is locked, and unstaking takes 7 days.
Sources: Jupiter docs: staking, Jupiter docs: JUP token · checked 2 October 2026
JUP does not run applications. It is the governance token of Jupiter, on Solana, and its docs say it gives no direct share of the protocol's fees. Half of Jupiter's on-chain revenue is used to buy JUP for a reserve.
Source: Jupiter docs: JUP token · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where JUP lives
On Solana, a mint authority can create more of the token and a freeze authority can freeze it in a holder's account; both are read from the token itself, every day. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Jupiter data synced 61s ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell JUP.