Jito announces JTX, directing 80% of platform revenue to $JTO value accrual. The builders behind Solana's underlying market layer step into consumer-facing applications * Published: May 5, 2026 9:51 AM Jito, architects of Solana's market layer and creators of the network's most-liquid LST, are expanding into consumer-facing applications. Slated to combine spot, perps, and prediction markets into one sophisticated, self-custodial venue, JTX promises to outperform CEXs on trade execution and provide the professional trading experience that has thus far eluded the onchain economy. The launch comes after a strong start to 2026 for Jito, which recently launched the BAM maker plugin and attracted 47% of all Solana's validators to its client. Solana infrastructure giant to launch trading venue. After laying the foundation for Solana's onchain market structure through the Block Engine, Jito is expanding into consumer-facing applications. Built for the next generation of professional onchain traders, Jito's JTX aims to provide Solana's most complete and performant trading platform, uniting spot, perpetual futures, and prediction markets in one venue. At launch, JTX is expected to offer curated spot markets across verified listings, including RWAs. The platform will provide traders an expansive variety of sophisticated order types, including resting limits, brackets, OCO, and TWAPs. Initial glimpses into the JTX UI suggests the platform also enables "smart fills", and actively tracks and records JTX execution against CEXs to help traders monitor how much they save. "Solana's infrastructure is the best in the world, processing more daily transactions than every other blockchain combined. We've spent four years shipping core infrastructure on this chain. The work shaped how Solana scaled and how we think about product. We know where the execution edge is. JTX is what happens when we point that at traders who've outgrown what's currently being built for them. It beats a CEX on execution. It doesn't take your keys. That's the pitch." said Lucas Bruder, Co-Founder and CEO of Jito Labs. Following the initial launch, JTX is expected to integrate perpetual futures trading via Phoenix, and prediction markets through a currently-unlaunched protocol. By uniting crypto's three most popular market types in one venue under a trusted brand, JTX could solve one of Solana DeFi biggest challenges: the absence of both a competitive perps venue and native prediction market. While Solana has dominated onchain spot volumes and trade execution across all blockchains for almost two years, the network has struggled to service these emerging markets. Accelerating market structure momentum. Jito's unveiling of JTX comes off the back of a series of strong months for the architects of Solana's market layer. Last week, Jito announced the launch of its first BAM plugin, designed to improve maker efficiency, enhance trade execution and enable cancel prioritization on the network. More broadly, Solana's validators are steadily embracing Jito's BAM client. According to Blockworks data, ~28% of network stake is now running BAM, with 46.2% of the network's validators adopting the client software. 80% of Protocol Revenue to Flow to $JTO DAO. Joining existing streams like Jito tips, $jitoSOL fees, and BAM plugins, JTX will serve as an additional flow of revenue to the Jito DAO and its governance token $JTO. According to the press release, 80% of JTX revenue will accrue to $JTO holders, with the remaining 20% allocated to the platform's ongoing growth. Onchain trading terminals have historically been one of Solana's most successful business models, with platforms like Axiom generating over $60M in Q1 revenue this year. It's extremely unlikely that JTX would have a similar fee structure to memecoin terminals, which are known to charge as high as 1% per swap. However, the success of onchain trading platforms suggests that DeFi traders are willing to pay a premium for superior execution and competitive tools. With institutional capital flowing onchain like never before, JTX is well positioned to capture flow and volume from a more mature and sophisticated class of traders. Disclaimer: Solanafloor is a subsidiary of Jito Network Read more on Solana. Solana's AI Agents get the thumbs-up from Google Cloud

Jito to launch jtx consumer trading app on Solana in July. Solana's leading MEV infrastructure provider Jito is set to launch JTX, a consumer-facing trading app, in July 2026. The platform will bring institutional-grade execution speeds to retail investors on Solana. The JTX platform already has a live waitlist at jtx.trade, signalling the project is in active pre-launch mode. The app will be built on top of Jito's existing high-performance MEV infrastructure, aiming to offer simplified on-ramps and improved transaction efficiency for $SOL traders. Jito's infrastructure advantage. The move into consumer trading is a natural extension of Jito's existing position at the heart of Solana's network. Jito Labs describes itself as a leading Solana MEV infrastructure company, building high-performance systems to maximise blockchain performance and validator rewards. Its Block Engine processes transaction bundles, and by early 2026, over 95% of Solana's active stake was delegated to validators running the Jito-Solana client - making it the dominant MEV infrastructure on the network. Jito's liquid staking product, JitoSOL, further underlines this reach. As of early 2026, the protocol had over 14.5 million $SOL staked and approximately $2.92 billion in total value locked, positioning it as the largest liquid staking token on Solana. That scale of infrastructure gives JTX a meaningful technical foundation to compete on execution quality from day one. A push for retail market share. The JTX app is positioned to capture a share of Solana's sizeable daily trading volume by lowering the barriers to entry for retail participants. By routing orders through Jito's MEV stack - which includes its Block Engine, Bundles, and ShredStream - the platform can offer execution speeds and protections that have historically been available only to professional traders and algorithmic desks. The launch comes at a time when Solana's on-chain activity remains robust, and competition among consumer-facing trading applications on the network is intensifying. For Jito, JTX represents a significant step beyond its validator and staking roots into the broader retail trading market.

Jito Labs launches self-custody trading tool as activity heats up on Solana. JTX is the company's first product built specifically for traders. It allows users to trade tokens on Solana while maintaining self-custody. * Jito Labs has launched JTX, a self-custodial trading platform on Solana that aims to offer centralized exchange-style speed and advanced trading tools while letting users keep control of their funds. * The move targets more sophisticated traders still using centralized platforms, with plans to expand beyond spot trading into products like perpetual futures and prediction markets. Jito Labs, a core infrastructure provider on Solana, has unveiled JTX, a new crypto trading platform aimed at bringing more advanced trading tools to the blockchain. Announced at the Solana Accelerate conference in Miami, Florida, JTX is the company's first product built specifically for traders. It allows users to trade tokens on Solana while maintaining self-custody, meaning they have full control of their funds unlike other set ups that have to hand assets over to a centralized exchange like Coinbase or Binance. JTX is designed to feel more like those centralized platforms, the team shared in a press release with CoinDesk. It is supposed to offer faster trade execution and a range of tools typically used by professional traders, including stop-loss orders, preset trade strategies and detailed market charts powered by TradingView. The launch comes as trading activity on Solana has surged, Jito Labs claimed, with decentralized exchanges on the network processing over $1 trillion in volume last year. Much of the more sophisticated trading still happens on centralized platforms or other blockchains. Jito is betting that demand for more advanced, onchain trading will keep growing, with JTX expecting to come out with products like perpetual futures and prediction markets. In addition, a large portion of the revenue generated by JTX will go back to the protocol, benefiting holders of its JTO token. JTX is currently open for sign-ups via a waitlist, with early access expected soon. "Solana's infrastructure is the best in the world, processing more daily transactions than every other blockchain combined," said Lucas Bruder, the CTO at Jito Labs. "JTX is what happens when we point that at traders who've outgrown what's currently being built for them. It beats a CEX on execution. It doesn't take your keys. That's the pitch." More For You 9 hours ago The company's Chief Strategy Officer said that more than half of internet traffic is now non-human, but that the x402 Foundation is building the rails for a "golden age of content." What to know: * Cloudflare's network is processing a billion HTTP 402 "payment required" responses every day, according to Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen * More than half of internet traffic is now non-human and growing fast; AI scrapers visit a site at "tens of thousands to one" relative to the human visitors they send...