BitGo has added Jupiter, the Solana trading and DeFi platform, as a validator option for its institutional custody clients, letting them delegate SOL from their existing BitGo accounts to a Jupiter-run validator, BitGo announced on Wednesday.

BitGo already offered SOL staking. Jupiter joins three Solana validator partners the custodian has named before: it added SOL Strategies in April 2025, brought on Helius that July and signed HashKey Cloud on Oct. 6.

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Access goes through BitGo

In the announcement, BitGo said the option is open to “eligible institutional clients,” who stake from custody instead of sending SOL to an outside provider. Current clients are directed to their BitGo representative. The post notes that “fees may apply” without listing them, and neither company said whether the “Jupiter x BitGo validator” named in the announcement is Jupiter’s existing main validator or a separate one. BitGo also said in the post that Jupiter runs the validator as an independent third party and that BitGo “does not control validator performance.” Unstaking is subject to Solana’s standard deactivation period.

“Staking is an important part of how institutions manage their SOL holdings, and it needs to fit into their existing custody and approval processes,” said Abel Seow, BitGo’s managing director and head of APAC sales, in the announcement.

Jupiter COO Kash Dhanda described running a validator as “how we invest in that base layer,” and said the BitGo tie-up brings “institutional SOL into it on terms those institutions already trust.”

The economics

Jupiter’s main validator had about 9.72 million SOL of active stake as of Wednesday afternoon, worth roughly $993 million at a SOL price of $102.13, according to on-chain data tracked by StakeWiz. By Unchained’s count from Solana’s vote-account data, it ranked fifth by stake among about 660 active validators, with about 2.24% of all active stake.

Helius, which ranks second by stake on the network, held about 16.66 million SOL on Wednesday and charges no commission, and StakeWiz put its yield at 5.01%. Jupiter keeps 5% of the inflation rewards its delegators earn and takes nothing from MEV tips, according to its staking documentation, and StakeWiz estimated its yield at 4.72%, against a stake-weighted network average of 3.62%, by StakeWiz’s figures.

Jupiter’s own institutional staking page already said native delegation works from any custodian that supports Solana staking. BitGo’s quarterly filing for the period ended June 30 put Solana at 3.9% of its $65.2 billion in assets on platform and 17% of its $11.9 billion in staked assets.

Last week, Unchained reported that BitGo-held bitcoin and ether will back perps margin loans for some Kalshi Prime clients.

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