Jupiter, Solana’s leading DEX aggregator, is launching a new Solana-based stablecoin called JupUSD in partnership with Ethena Labs, slated for mid–Q4 2025. Per the announcement, JupUSD will integrate across Jupiter’s ecosystem as collateral on Jupiter Perps, a core liquidity asset in lending pools, and a primary trading pair—positioning it as the backbone for Solana DeFi users.

Pi Network has launched a testnet decentralized exchange (DEX) with an automated market maker (AMM) to strengthen its DeFi ecosystem and expand real utility for Pi Coin. The initiative focuses on utility-driven tokens, developer experimentation, and financial literacy, allowing the community to practice non-custodial trading and liquidity provision in a low‑risk environment before mainnet scale-up.

According to DeFillama , the TVL in DeFi is currently around $124.5 billion. However, in early 2022, that figure reached $240 billion. One way or another, we’re talking a lot of money. There is, however, one thing that can throw a spanner in this DeFi machinery. These are bugs in smart contracts (Lemmens, 2022) [1] .

Traditionally, exchanges acted as the market makers, providing the liquidity needed for traders to buy and sell crypto assets. Since liquidity was held by a single entity, Binance, Coinbase, FTX, and others, which act in this way, are referred to as centralized exchanges (CEXs).

A decentralized exchange (or DEX) is a peer-to-peer marketplace where transactions occur directly between crypto traders. DEXs fulfill one of crypto’s core possibilities: fostering financial transactions that aren’t officiated by banks, brokers, or any other intermediary. Many popular DEXs, like Uniswap and Sushiwap, run on the Ethereum blockchain (Staff, 2022).