Jumper spins out from LI.FI to raise capital through JUMP token sale on Legion

• Jumper has processed more than $40 billion in lifetime volume and serves over 100,000 monthly active users.
• The platform ranks as the #1 aggregator by bridging volume, holding more than 15% market share.
• Jumper Perps, a perpetual futures aggregator, is scheduled to launch within the coming weeks.

• $40B lifetime trading and bridging volume processed to date
• 15% bridging market share Jumper claims over rival aggregators
• 100K+ monthly active users on the platform currently

Jumper announced Friday (September 25) that it will raise capital for the first time through a JUMP token sale on Legion, the crypto fundraising platform. The move, first reported by BeInCrypto, coincides with Jumper’s formal separation from LI.FI, the orchestration infrastructure firm that originally incubated it. Proceeds are earmarked for product development, user acquisition and distribution as Jumper expands beyond bridging into perpetual futures, tokenized stocks and yield products.

Jumper Splits From LI.FI After Building 15% Bridging Market Share

Jumper began as a bridging aggregator built inside LI.FI, which routes liquidity across blockchains for other applications. It has since become the top aggregator by bridging volume, capturing more than 15% market share against competing platforms, according to the company.

CEO Marko Jurina said bridging was “the starting point,” with Jumper now aiming to become the application users open whenever they want to trade, invest or move value onchain.

The carve-out gives the standalone Jumper platform dedicated capital, leadership and a roadmap separate from LI.FI. LI.FI will keep building orchestration infrastructure for third-party applications while Jumper focuses on the consumer-facing product.

Jumper Rejects a Separate Equity Round for JUMP Sale

Jumper is not running a parallel equity financing round alongside the JUMP sale, a deliberate decision the company says aligns users, contributors and investors under one asset. That breaks from the standard venture-plus-token structure common across DeFi, where insiders hold equity while the public holds only the token.

We believe the token should be the only way to have ownership and exposure to the value being created by Jumper. There shouldn’t be one group holding equity and another group holding a token. JUMP is intended to be the only way users, contributors, and investors participate in Jumper’s growth, so the value created by Jumper is aligned with tokenholders.

Marko Jurina, CEO of Jumper

The JUMP token itself is planned to launch separately, after the Legion fundraising process concludes. Jurina framed the approach as a template he wants “to become an industry standard” across crypto.

Jumper Perps Set to Launch Within Weeks, Adding a New Revenue Line

Jumper Perps, which will aggregate perpetual futures venues into a single trading experience, is slated to go live within the coming weeks. Each new product line, from perps to tokenized real-world assets, gives Jumper an added source of volume and revenue while pulling existing users deeper into one application rather than several.

Jumper’s pitch is distinct: rather than serving as backend infrastructure, it wants to be the single front-end where a user swaps, bridges, trades perpetuals and holds tokenized equities in one interface.

The CCS read. A token sale that deliberately excludes equity investors is a governance signal as much as a fundraising choice: it forces Legion buyers to underwrite Jumper’s product roadmap without the downside protection or board access that venture equity typically carries. For institutional desks weighing JUMP, the real question is whether volume from Jumper Perps and tokenized-asset trading can generate fee flow large enough to justify a token with no equity backstop.

Jumper has not disclosed a sale date, valuation or allocation size for the Legion round, and the JUMP token’s public launch will only follow once that fundraising process wraps. The next concrete marker will be the Jumper Perps launch, which the company says is coming within weeks and will be the first live test of its super-app thesis.