Jupiter COO says DeFi needs 5-10x improvement for institutional capital
Jupiter (JUP)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cryptobriefing.com reports that Jupiter COO Kash Dhanda argues DeFi must offer five to ten times better performance than traditional finance to attract serious institutional capital. He asserts that marginal gains of 15 percent are insufficient for on-chain adoption. To support this thesis, Jupiter restructured its product suite in July 2026 into three pillars: Trade, Earn, and Manage.
This shift aims to transform the platform from a swap aggregator into a comprehensive super app for Solana. The strategy shows traction with over $1.2 trillion in trading volume and 44 million connected wallets. Jupiter Lend recently reached a total supply of $1 billion.
The platform also introduced Offer Book to integrate fixed-rate lending. Additionally, JupUSD was launched in collaboration with Ethena, and the GUM omnichain hub extends reach beyond Solana.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for JUP, measured when this story was written up on 27 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
JUP trades at $0.3389 with a 24-hour buy ratio of 44.1 percent. The 1-hour buy ratio is 32.6 percent, while the 4-hour ratio is 47.0 percent. This indicates that buying pressure is fading in the short term but remains stable over four hours. Volume Delta is negative across all timeframes, showing net selling pressure of -$642,182 over 24 hours. The Coin Volume Delta measures the difference between buy and sell volume, where a negative number means sellers are dominating. Only 8 of the last 24 hours saw net buying activity.
The latest daily buy ratio of 47.7% sits at the 39th percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 48.7% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for JUP, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the 7-day average buy ratio was 48.6 percent. Today's 24-hour buy ratio of 44.1 percent is 4.4 percentage points below that average. Volume is at 0.80 times the weekly average, indicating lighter trading activity. This is an ordinary day characterized by lower-than-average buying intensity. The 8-day price change was +20.4 percent with a total Volume Delta of -$2,056,172.