Jupiter’s Grand Debut: Staked SOL Now a Loanable Asset!

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Jupiter Lend now permits borrowers to pledge natively staked SOL, unlocking $30B for DeFi’s grand ballroom, sans liquid staking tokens. A triumph, nay, a revolution!

Jupiter Exchange has orchestrated a most remarkable shift. Thirty billion dollars in natively staked SOL, once as useful as a pocket watch in a pocketful of cabbages-earnings yield, yes, yet entirely absent from DeFi’s glittering soiree-now finds itself invited to the dance. The wall, it seems, has crumbled like a poorly constructed teacake.

Jupiter announced the arrival of Native Staking as Collateral on Jupiter Lend. As

Jupiter Exchange posted on X

, “$30B of SOL is natively staked. The largest pool of capital on Solana, earning yield but locked out of DeFi. That changes today.”

The feature is live now at

jup.ag/lend/borrow

.

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How Borrowing Against Staked SOL Actually Works

The mechanics are simpler than one might expect. A user stakes with a supported validator. Jupiter Lend detects the position automatically as an nsTOKEN. From there, borrowing against it for SOL is immediate. A most efficient arrangement, one might say.

No liquid staking tokens. No unstaking. According to a follow-up

post by Jupiter Exchange on X

, staking rewards keep compounding in the background throughout. The whole setup is fully on-chain and non-custodial. A paragon of modernity!

Borrow limits ascend to 87% of the staked position’s value. The liquidation threshold resides at 88%, as

Jupiter Exchange confirmed on X

. Each validator receives its own vault, a private boudoir for one’s capital.

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Six Validators, One Big Shift for Solana DeFi

Six validators grace the inaugural ball.

Jupiter Exchange listed them on X

as Jupiter (nsJUPITER), Helius (nsHELIUS), Nansen (nsNANSEN), Blueshift (nsSHIFT), Kiln (nsKILN), and Temporal (nsTEMPORAL). Each has its own vault. The flow is identical across all six, as smooth as a quadrille performed by experienced dancers.

Validators desiring inclusion may contact @Jup_Lend directly. Jupiter noted

in a subsequent post on X

. Expansion beyond the launch six is already planned, for ambition is a virtue in these circles.

That $30B figure is not small. It is the single biggest pool of capital on the Solana network. It has been sitting idle from a

DeFi perspective

, earning staking returns, but nothing more. A fate worse than stagnation, one might argue.

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SolanaFloor on X

put it succinctly: Jupiter has rendered it possible to borrow against natively staked SOL without touching liquid staking tokens, granting access to over 30 billion dollars in capital that was previously unavailable to DeFi entirely. A feat worthy of a sonnet.

The vault naming system ties each position to its validator. A staker using Helius sees their position as nsHELIUS. Jupiter’s own validator appears as nsJUPITER. Clean, simple, separate. A most agreeable system.

What becomes of staking rewards while borrowing? They continue to accumulate, undeterred. The protocol neither pauses nor redirects them. That compounding persists, as the exchange declared on

X

. A testament to the resilience of compound interest.

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This move positions native staking alongside DeFi participation-not as rivals, but as dance partners. Stakers need no longer choose between the two. Jupiter hailed it as “a major step towards making all natively staked SOL liquid for DeFi,” as posted

on X

. A step forward, indeed, though one might wonder if the dance card will ever truly be full.

Thirty billion in capital, now accessible. The Solana DeFi picture looks different today than it did yesterday. One might say the ballroom is now open, and the orchestra is playing with great vigor.

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2026-02-17 16:11