THE INDEPENDENT SOLANA JOURNAL
7 October 2026Reporting and practical analysis for the builders, users, and investors following Solana.
Solana DeFi growth depends on a reinforcing loop: stablecoins create settlement demand, trading venues concentrate liquidity, and builders reuse the same execution and wallet rails.
Read the story ↗Solana DeFi is a connected liquidity system. This map explains how liquid staking, swaps, lending, and perpetual markets recycle collateral, fees, and risk.
Jupiter connects Solana swap demand with liquidity distributed across multiple venues. This guide explains its routing layer, the liquidity it can access, and how JLP supports Jupiter Perps.