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Jupiter launched Lend v2 on Solana, letting the same dollar earn lending interest and swap fees across $1.9 billion in deposits.
"There's been a wall between the two primary ways people earn APY onchain, lending and LPing," Kash Dhanda, chief operating officer at Jupiter, said. "The design lets Jupiter offer higher deposit rates and cheaper borrowing."
The upgrade introduces two optional features. Smart Collateral pairs deposits of USDC, USDT, SOL and JupSOL into correlated liquidity pools, letting assets earn lending interest, trading fees and staking rewards from one position. Smart Debt applies the same structure to borrowed assets, using pool fees to offset part of the loan's interest expense. Jupiter Lend holds about $1.9 billion in deposits, according to DefiLlama data, and generated $1.6 million in fees over the past 30 days. Active loans stand at $822.7 million, fluctuating between $600 million and $900 million since September, Token Terminal data show.
The additional yield exists only if traders actually swap through those pools. Jupiter runs Solana's largest swap router, the software most wallets and apps use to find the best execution price, and the company said the router does not favor its own vaults. The next 30 days of active loans will show whether yield was the factor holding back growth.
The risk of pairing assets falls unevenly. Jupiter values collateral using primary market oracles, so a temporary price wobble on an exchange does not trigger liquidations, and a position liquidates normally once its loan-to-value ratio passes the threshold. A genuine depeg is different. On the debt side, a borrower taking $100 split between USDC and USDT would see the pool rebalance into whichever asset held its value and still owe $100. On the collateral side, no such protection exists — a supplier carries the loss on both assets if either breaks. That is why the design is confined to correlated pairs: stablecoins against each other and SOL against its staked versions, rather than volatile assets.
The launch arrives as Jupiter expands beyond its core swap aggregator business into lending. The protocol's loan book has not grown in a year, with deposits and outstanding loans both slipping over the past month. Jupiter expects demand to come from a mix of new loans and migrated positions, without giving a target or cap. The upgrade reflects a broader shift across Solana DeFi, where protocols such as Kamino and Marginfi compete to make capital more productive rather than simply offering higher yields. If Lend v2 gains traction, the distinction between lending and liquidity provision could begin to fade, letting users generate multiple sources of yield from a single position.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
