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Jupiter, a leading onchain finance platform on Solana, announced the launch of a lending market for Ethena’s USDe stablecoin, with curation from the $11 billion global crypto asset manager, Bitwise Asset Management. The market is powered by lending infrastructure from Fluid, which supports Jupiter Lend.
"Jupiter and Fluid have built unique infrastructure for efficient lending markets,” said Jonathan Man, Head of DeFi Strategies at Bitwise. “Their design offers deep liquidity and thoughtful risk-mitigating features, making it a compelling foundation for an isolated USDe market on Solana. Bitwise is proud to serve as curator."
The collaboration marks the first time an institutional asset manager has curated a market for Jupiter’s lending product, establishing a new framework to connect institutional capital with onchain lending infrastructure. The market is structured to be isolated from Jupiter Lend’s existing liquidity and is designed to scale into billions of dollars in capacity. The move comes as DeFi total value locked (TVL) has grown from $46 billion to $156 billion since January 2023, according to the announcement.
This launch assembles four key players in a single structure: Jupiter provides the market, Bitwise curates risk and asset parameters, Ethena supplies the USDe asset, and Fluid provides the underlying lending protocol. It represents a significant step in maturing the onchain financial system, creating an institutional-grade savings product ready for wider adoption.
Until now, institutional capital and onchain lending have largely operated in parallel. This initiative puts them in the same structure, aiming to scale onchain lending from a niche crypto activity into a mainstream financial default.
"Now more than ever, its imperative that we take DeFi risk seriously," said Kash Dhanda, COO of Jupiter. "That’s precisely why we’re so excited to partner with Bitwise, who bring both the expertise and the institutional credibility needed to help scale onchain lending."
Fluid, which underpins the new market, provides an advanced lending protocol with features like discrete risk parameterization and dynamic limits not available on other platforms. "By combining advanced risk management infrastructure with institutional capital management expertise, we're designing solutions capable of breaking out of DeFi and enabling institutional scale," said Samyak Jain, Co-Founder & CEO of Fluid.
Ethena's USDe is the fourth-largest "digital dollar," according to the release, and its expansion to the Solana ecosystem aligns with the project's goal of serving both retail and institutional users.
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