ParaFi fuels Jupiter’s $1T Solana engine; Shotling reloads €700k drone-killer shotgun

TL;DR

• Jupiter Protocol Secures $35 Million Strategic Investment from ParaFi Capital
• Shotling Raises €700K in Pre-Seed Round to Deploy Drone-Defending Rotary Shotgun System

🚀 ParaFi fuels Jupiter with $35M, JUP rallies 9%, JupUSD debuts on Solana

ParaFi Capital injects $35M into Jupiter Protocol, fueling a 9% JUP surge and powering the new JupUSD stablecoin on Solana. With $1T+ routed in a year, Jupiter eyes tighter spreads and deeper liquidity. Ready for Solana’s next liquidity leap?

ParaFi Capital’s $35M cash-plus-warrants check lands when Jupiter already routes >$1T in annual on-chain volume—triple the throughput of the median Solana aggregator. The round is the protocol’s first external capital, and the token reacted with a 9% pop, 4.5× the sector’s average post-funding bump.

Why issue a brand-new stablecoin to pay for it?

Jupiter settled the entire investment in newly-minted JupUSD, built with Ethena Labs’ collateral-efficient design. The move eliminates fiat conversion risk, seeds same-day liquidity, and forces every future ParaFi drawdown to ride Solana’s sub-second finality. Expect daily JupUSD volume to clear $200M within six months if the peg holds.

What exactly will the treasury spend?

60% of the raise is coded for infrastructure:

• Hot-path order-router upgrades to cut average slippage by 15%
• Market-maker rebates to keep spreads tight when Ondo’s tokenized equities arrive
• Cross-chain fallback routers that can reroute flow to Ethereum if Solana hiccups

The remaining 40% bankrolls JupUSD incentive pools and legal buffers for looming U.S. stablecoin rules.

Where’s the dilution landmine?

ParaFi’s warrants trigger at a premium to spot, but full exercise could still expand circulating JUP by 5–10%. Jupiter staggered strike prices and lock-up cliffs so the supply shock hits only if the token trades above preset benchmarks—an internal stress test baked into the deal.

Can any competitor catch up?

Jupiter’s $35M raise is 75% larger than the typical first Solana DeFi round, and its trillion-dollar volume lead creates a data moat: every routed swap feeds the router’s ML model, tightening price quotes in real time. Rivals would need to match both capital depth and transaction history—an expensive two-front war.

Bottom line: ParaFi isn’t just buying tokens; it’s purchasing a call option on Solana’s settlement layer. If regulators don’t clip stablecoin wings and Solana’s uptime stays above 99%, Jupiter’s liquidity flywheel should spin fast enough to justify the premium.

🔫 Shotling secures €700k, NATO nod, eyes $10B drone defense surge

Danish startup Shotling just banked €700k pre-seed—40% above target—to scale its 3k RPM electric shotgun that downs FPV drones for <1/10 the cost of missiles. NATO finalist status + $10B counter-UAS market ahead. Ready to reload defense tech?

Shotling’s oversubscribed round is tiny in absolute euros, yet the arithmetic is brutal: a single FPV drone can wreck a €5 M tank, while the firm’s rotary shotgun neutralizes it for < €500 in ammo cost. That 1:10 kill-cost ratio flips the economics of short-range air defence and explains why Myriad Defense Fund wrote the cheque within five weeks of first contact.

What exactly is the “rotary shotgun”?

Think mini-Gatling, not grandpa’s 12-gauge. Three brushless motors spin a six-barrel cluster to 3 000 RPM, firing 4 mm tungsten pellets. No propellant, no ejected shells—just 30 electrically triggered shots per cassette, reloadable in eight seconds. Elevation arcs past 90°, so a two-person crew can track a diving quadcopter like an anti-aircraft mount from 1943, minus the 2-ton chassis.

Why 50–100 m, and is that enough?

The envelope is dictated by pellet ballistic decay, not wishful marketing. At 100 m the spread is one metre; beyond that, hit probability drops below 60% against a 40 cm target. For convoy halts, forward operating bases or energy substations—exactly where FPVs loiter—this band is the threat sweet spot. Stretching range would mean bigger barrels, heavier cassettes, and a logistics tail that erodes the cost edge.

Can 700 grand buy a factory?

No, but it buys 14 months of burn at Danish salary levels: two mechanical engineers, one embedded-fire-control coder, 200 hours of wind-tunnel time, and the NATO Challenge demo rig. The firm’s burn forecast shows cash zero in August 2027; management already term-sheet shopping for a €3–4 M Series-A that would bankroll 200 low-rate units and STANAG 4433 certification.

Who else is bidding to swat small drones?

Missile guys—Raytheon, Diehl—sell $80 k interceptors. RF jammers lose against autonomous GPS-denied drones. Laser start-ups (e.g., Lockheed’s 50 kW HEL) promise $3–5 per shot but need 200 kW diesel trailers. Shotling’s pitch: kinetic certainty, off-grid power, backpack portability. Competitive matrix places the rotary gun in a white space between $2 k small-arms “drone shells” and six-figure mini-missiles.

Will export rules choke growth?

EU dual-use regulation (Reg. 2021/821) classifies the system as Category 2—military shotguns—requiring member-state licence for every third-country sale. Denmark’s export office has pre-approved tech demos to Lithuania and Poland, both NATO finalists. That pipeline could convert to 60-unit orders once trials end in Q2 2027, giving Shotling recurring revenue before it even hires a CFO.

Bottom line: the round is seed money for a weed-whacker that could trim a billion-dollar weed problem. If the Danish army signs a 200-unit frame contract next year, Shotling’s €700 k ticket today will look like the cheapest defence hedge in Europe.