Five years ago,
@Injective produced its first block.
Today, the first US ETF for
$INJ is live on Nasdaq, and some of the worldโs biggest institutions are building on Injective.
I keep re-reading that sentence. It still feels unreal.
Hereโs 5 years in plain words.
1.
$INJ entered global markets.
An ETF is a fund you buy through a normal brokerage account, and ours is the first US one that stakes
$INJ , meaning it helps secure the network and earns rewards. We also saw the first regulated US futures, Asiaโs first regulated INJ investment fund, a MiCA milestone in Europe (the EUโs crypto rulebook), and listings on Robinhood, Revolut and Binance.US.
2. Institutions went onchain.
Pentiv tokenized over $1B in mortgage records (tokenizing means turning a real world asset into a digital token), and POSCO International and LG CNS are tokenizing trade receivables. Injective also became the first L1 to be an SEC registered transfer agent, the role that officially records who owns a security. Institutional Rail now connects banks straight to the chain.
3. Native USDC launched with Circle.
Here Injective is set to be the canonical stablecoin standard across 20+ chains.
4. Over $12B in annual trading volume.
Injective has been able to achieve four straight months of record volume for tokenized stocks, and native EVM launched with 30+ apps on day one.
5. More than 7.29M
$INJ has been permanently burned (removed from supply for good), and a record 58.8M is staked.
6. AI agents can now trade perps in plain language and pay in USDC in about 600ms through x402.
Next: $10B+ in real world assets targeted onchain, native privacy with CypherOS, quantum resistant security, and more banks on Institutional Rail.
Five years ago this was a simple but ambitious idea: rebuild the global financial system onchain and make it open to everyone. Today itโs becoming real.
Thank you to the builders, validators, stakers, partners and millions of ninjas who believed before it made sense.
The best days are still ahead.
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