Jito Goes Vertical: Lucas Bruder on Building JTX, the Prosumer Trading Terminal for Solana

The first time you try to buy a tokenized stock on Solana today, you'll likely find three or four different versions of NVIDIA, each with its own chart, and each chart full of wicks from low liquidity. That fragmented, confusing experience is exactly what Jito founder Lucas Bruder wants to fix with JTX, a new prosumer trading terminal that aims to bring centralized-exchange quality to on-chain trading — and eventually take market share from Coinbase, Binance, and even the NYSE.

Why Jito Is Building a Trading App

Jito has spent years as Solana's infrastructure backbone — the largest validator client, the dominant block builder, and the team behind JitoSOL, the network's deepest liquid staking pool. Bruder describes the company's competence as operating "down in the basement" of Solana's microstructure. But there are limits to what you can accomplish at the infrastructure layer to bring new users on chain. After months of ideation, the team decided that building a front-end trading experience was the highest-leverage way to grow the ecosystem.