Jupiter DAO Freezes Governance: Treasury Locked Until 2027 in Bold Move

Decentralization takes a nap—Jupiter DAO pulls the emergency brake on all voting mechanisms and seals its treasury vault for two years. No proposals, no debates, just radio silence until 2027.

Cold storage for democracy

The self-proclaimed 'community-driven' protocol now operates under a de facto moratorium. Treasury funds? Frozen like a Celsius executive's assets. Governance participation? Paused like a retail trader's leveraged position during a flash crash.

When DAOs imitate traditional finance's least transparent practices—minus the yacht parties—you know crypto's growing up. Or just getting lazy.

Jupiter DEX currently carries around 7.8% of Solana DEX traffic, displaced by PumpSwap with over 65% of meme token volumes. The automatic shift of meme tokens to PumpSwap also meant a lower need for the aggregator, as the meme tokens were consolidated on a single market.

Jupiter will rebuild DAO governance in 2026

Governance for Jupiter DAO will return in 2026 with a new structure. Previously, votes on Jupuary airdrops have arrived with significant conflicts and market panic. The Jupuary event led to clashes of multiple holder classes, including new users and older whales. 

The Jupiter platform will aim to bring a period of building and focusing on DeFi, while rebuilding the voting rules. 

The freeze in voting will also mean no new JUP emissions for voting rewards and incentives. JUP only expects another big dilution event when 700M tokens will be airdropped in the second part of the Jupuary event. 

The DAO Treasury, also known as the Litterbox Trust, will remain closed until 2027, while continuing to receive revenues from jupSOL staking. Active staking will remain and distribute 50M JUP for active staking, even with no voting issues. Workgroup budgets will also be closed, and no new JUP minting will be proposed.

The removal of voting incentives may also ease selling pressure on JUP. The native token traded NEAR its yearly lows of $0.40.

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