JTX Begins Rolling Out to First Users as Jito's Self-Custody Trading Platform Enters Early Access

Jito JTO$0.610-2.9% began onboarding its first users to JTX on June 26, with the self-custody trading platform entering early access roughly a month before its planned July 2026 full launch on Solana.

"Started rolling out JTX to first users today," wrote @aajxbt, one of the team members behind the platform. "Can't wait to share with the world. The everything chain needs an everything exchange." Jito's official account retweeted the message the same day. Lucas Bruder, CEO of Jito Labs, quote-tweeted within minutes: "team put their heart and soul into this one."

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JTX: Self-Custody Spot Trading With CEX-Grade Execution

JTX is a spot trading platform on Solana that keeps users in control of their own keys throughout every trade, without the execution quality trade-offs that have historically pushed professional traders toward centralized platforms.

As Bruder described the product at the Solana Accelerate conference in Miami in May, where Jito first announced JTX: "It beats a CEX on execution. It doesn't take your keys. That's the pitch."

The platform launches with spot trading across Solana assets, including real-world assets, and supports institutional-grade order types: resting limits, bracket orders, OCO (one-cancels-the-other), stop orders, and TWAP. TradingView charting and orderbook depth visualization are built in. Perpetual futures via Phoenix integration and prediction markets are planned as the next phases.

:::callout{type="quote" label="What they said" source="Lucas Bruder, Jito Labs CEO, May 2026"}
"Solana's infrastructure is the best in the world...JTX is what happens when we point that at traders who've outgrown what's currently being built for them."
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Revenue Sharing: 80% to JTO

JTX's economics are directly tied to JTO. Per CoinDesk's coverage of the May announcement, 80% of all trading fees generated by the platform flow back to the Jito protocol, benefiting JTO holders via fee-sharing. The remaining 20% goes toward product development.

This mirrors the mechanism already in place across Jito's other products: JitoSOL staking fees and MEV bundle revenue both accrue in part to JTO holders. JTX adds a trading layer on top of the same stack.

Jito's Full Stack

On June 25, the day before the early access rollout, Jito's official account posted a summary of its product lineup: BAM (the Block Assembly Marketplace for MEV infrastructure), JitoSOL (the liquid staking token), JTO (the governance and fee-sharing token), and JTX. The post, titled "The Market Layer," positioned JTX as the consumer-facing trading surface sitting atop the same execution infrastructure Jito has been building at the protocol level since 2023.

Jito raised $50 million from Andreessen Horowitz's crypto division in October 2025 and reportedly holds "well north of $100 million" in cash reserves. The company employs 39 people across two entities. JTX is its first product built explicitly for end-user traders.

Early Access Before July Public Launch

The rollout is limited to waitlist users who signed up from May 7, 2026, when the waitlist opened. The full public launch is scheduled for July 2026, with perpetual futures via Phoenix integration and prediction markets following the initial spot trading release.

Our JTX guide covers the full product architecture, how self-custody is maintained during trade execution, and how JTO fee-sharing works in more detail.