21Shares Launches JitoSOL-Based Solana Staking ETP for European Investors
European crypto investors just got a major new tool—and it's laser-focused on Solana's hottest liquid staking derivative.
21Shares, the Swiss crypto ETP giant, has rolled out a new exchange-traded product built directly on JitoSOL. The move targets institutional and sophisticated retail investors across Europe, offering a regulated path to Solana staking yields without the technical headaches of running a validator.
Why JitoSOL? The Token's Edge
JitoSOL isn't your average staked SOL. It's the liquid staking token that bundles Solana's base staking rewards with a cut of the network's lucrative MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) profits. The 21Shares ETP effectively packages this dual-yield engine into a familiar, tradable security. Investors buy a share; the fund holds and stakes the JitoSOL; the yields—both staking and MEV—flow back to the product's net asset value.
Bypassing the DIY Nightmare
For institutions, direct exposure to DeFi protocols like Jito can mean compliance nightmares, custody puzzles, and tax-reporting labyrinths. This ETP cuts through that. It handles all the backend complexity—staking, rewards compounding, custody with regulated partners—and delivers a clean, security-like instrument that trades on traditional exchanges. It's staking, sanitized for the finance department.
The European Play
The product lands as European regulators tighten their grip on crypto markets under MiCA. 21Shares is betting that clarity, even restrictive clarity, breeds institutional adoption. By offering a fully compliant wrapper, they're tapping into pent-up demand from wealth managers, family offices, and funds that like Solana's tech stack but love regulatory boxes being ticked more.
A cynical finance jab? It's the ultimate irony: using a decentralized, MEV-capturing DeFi primitive to create a centralized, fee-generating tradable asset—Wall Street's playbook, adapted for the blockchain age.
This launch signals a maturation. It's no longer about just offering Bitcoin or Ethereum exposure. The race is now to securitize the most complex and lucrative yield mechanisms in crypto, and bring them to the world of traditional finance. For Solana and the Jito ecosystem, it's a massive validator of their economic model. For Europe's investors, it's a simpler ticket to the action.
21Shares unveils Solana staking access for institutional investors
🚨JUST IN: @21shares has launched the Jito Staked $SOL ETP ($JSOL) in Europe, offering @Solana price exposure with onchain staking and MEV rewards. The product is backed by JITOSOL and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam and Paris. pic.twitter.com/w9YKC290tF
— SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor) January 29, 2026
21Shares stated that JSOL will enable investors to access JitoSOL through their current bank or broker, which combines exposure to the solana market with the increased profits of liquid staking in an open, exchange-traded structure. The product will also allow holders to retain full exposure to Solana’s price, while also receiving traditional staking incentives and additional income from transaction fees and network prioritization.
Alistair Byas-Perry, VP and Head of EU Investments and Capital Markets at 21shares, commented that JSOL ETP is designed to allow investors to access one of the most well-known Solana liquid-staked tokens through their current brokers.
“JitoSOL is an efficient way to stake SOL, maximising yield while ensuring liquidity for institutional players. By launching the world’s first JitoSOL ETP, 21shares is offering investors solutions to participate fully in the Solana ecosystem’s growth.”
-Alistair Byas-Perry, VP and Head of EU Investments and Capital Markets at 21shares.
Brian Smith, President of the Jito Foundation, also revealed that JitoSOL was created from scratch.
The launch of Jito Staked SOL ETP comes as Solana has emerged as one of the few blockchain networks where real-world economic activity operates at scale.
According to 21Shares, the network is positioned as production-grade financial infrastructure and a competitive rival to ethereum due to its high throughput and low transaction costs. This has enabled live payments, trading, and an expanding spectrum of institutional and tokenization use cases.
Building on this momentum, Solana has become the go-to platform for tokenization and institutional payments. Firms such as Visa, PayPal, Morgan Stanley, Franklin Templeton, and JPMorgan have utilized the SOL for US-dollar payments and tokenized fund issuance, attracted by its speed, low fees, and scalability.
Institutions boost Solana adoption across financial markets
In December of last year, Visa introduced its USDC settlement program, allowing U.S. banks to use Circle’s USDC stablecoin on the Solana blockchain to settle commitments. Early participants such as Cross River Bank and Lead Bank helped the program reach over $3.5 billion in annualized settlements by late 2025. Visa plans to expand its rollout to more U.S. partners during 2026.
Around the same time, JPMorgan organized a $50 million U.S. commercial paper offering for Galaxy Digital on Solana. Investors like Franklin Templeton and Coinbase bought this short-term debt, and the public blockchain handled the USDC settlement.
JMP announced that it was the first debt issuance in the U.S. to use blockchain technology for securities issuance and servicing.
On January 6, Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) announced it had filed an initial registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for two new exchange-traded products (ETPs), Morgan Stanley bitcoin Trust and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust.
MSIM revealed that the two ETPs were awaiting regulatory approval and WOULD be passive investment vehicles that aim to track the performance of their respective cryptocurrencies.
In the same month, the Wyoming Stable Token Commission unveiled a Frontier Stable Token, a state-issued digital currency backed by reserves overseen by Franklin Templeton. The Commission revealed that the token was first distributed via Rain on Avalanche and Kraken on Solana.
These initiatives are being supported by a rapidly expanding pool of on-chain liquidity. On-chain data from DeFiLlama revealed that Solana’s stablecoin market has expanded to almost $13.9 billion, with USDC accounting for 55.4% of the total supply.
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