Jump Crypto is a fintech firm based in Chicago, Illinois that jump crypto is the digital asset division of jump trading group, publicly launched in september 2021 and operated as jump crypto holdings llc based in chicago. it engages in proprietary crypto trading, market making, investing, and blockchain infrastructure development. its notable engineering effort is firedancer, a high performance solana validator client written in c that began producing blocks on solana mainnet in late 2025. there is no public record of jump crypto being a registered securities broker dealer, so it functions as a proprietary trading and fintech firm. in december 2024 an affiliated jump entity, tai mo shan, settled with the sec for about 123 million dollars over matters related to the terrausd stablecoin. former president kanav kariya departed in june 2024. They serve clients in United States. Jump Crypto is listed on The Token Playbook's vetted provider registry at thetokenplaybook.com/registry/jump-crypto.