Ep. 727 Solana DeFi Is Growing Up — Jupiter’s COO Explains How
CRYPTO 101
Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman
4.3 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Crypto 101 Podcast, Kash Dhanda, COO of Jupiter, breaks down how Jupiter is evolving from Solana’s leading DEX aggregator into a full DeFi super app. He explains how Jupiter helps users get the best trading routes, why Jupiter Lend is growing through its partnership with Bitwise and Ethena, and how the platform is prioritizing security after recent DeFi exploits. The conversation also covers Jupiter Mobile, stablecoin payments, tokenized equities, prediction markets, and why Solana is becoming a major hub for real financial activity beyond meme coins. Kash also explains how meme coin mania stress-tested Solana and helped strengthen the network for more serious DeFi, payments, and tokenization use cases.
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Chapters
00:09 - Kash Dhanda joins the Crypto 101 Podcast
02:20 - Jupiter’s vision as a DeFi super app
03:35 - DEX aggregator vs decentralized exchange explained
05:05 - Why Jupiter finds better liquidity for traders
07:15 - Jupiter Lend, Bitwise, and Ethena partnership
10:45 - How Jupiter’s lending product works
15:10 - Earning yield with stablecoins and Solana
18:05 - DeFi security and lending risk management
25:30 - Offerbook and peer-to-peer lending innovation
31:15 - Solana payments, lending, and tokenized equities
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everyone, welcome back to the Crypto 101 podcast. We hope all of you are having a fantastic |
| 0:14.8 | morning or evening, because no matter where you're coming in from, but you're certainly in the right |
| 0:19.6 | place here today. Man, we hope everyone's doing well out there in the crypto community. There is a lot of turbulence. There's certainly a lot going on. And despite all of this, guys, the market is continuing to move forward, guys. Price action can remain pretty choppy and stuff. But let me tell you what, we love bringing in leaders from the space to hear what's going on to give you all the inside scoop about what's going on behind |
| 0:41.6 | the scenes, what kind of different areas of the industries are remaining active, how they're |
| 0:46.5 | increasing, how they're changing, so that you all can understand where you should be looking |
| 0:51.7 | about where the ball could be heading next. Now, it's with my great |
| 0:55.0 | pleasure to introduce all of you to Cash Donda. He is the CEO over at Jupiter. Before all of that, |
| 1:00.9 | he was doing consulting for a number of different Fortune 500 companies. Cash, it's good to have |
| 1:05.8 | you and welcome. It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me on. You know, this is going to be |
| 1:10.4 | exciting because, you know, for the listeners out there, |
| 1:13.6 | you're probably coming in here and saying, hey, didn't you just have Jupiter on? |
| 1:16.6 | And we did, you know, earlier this year in January. |
| 1:19.6 | So it was about five, six months ago now at the time of recording this. |
| 1:23.6 | So we had Shao Shao Zhu, who is the president of the Jupiter exchange on, had a great |
| 1:29.9 | conversation with him about the decentralized exchange and the aggregator and how that works. |
| 1:36.3 | But I think what people failed to understand and probably partially on our part is that |
| 1:41.2 | Jupiter does a lot more than just let you go through the aggregator |
| 1:45.9 | and make transactions. Over the years, I mean, you guys have been evolving into this DeFi |
| 1:51.6 | Super app. You have all these different products. You have all these different ways that people can |
| 1:56.8 | interact with, you know, not just Solana, but a bunch of different areas inside like |
| 2:01.6 | Solana's ecosystem. |
| 2:02.6 | And I've seen you guys are doing some other things that we'll talk about here today as well. |
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