What a year it’s been! While many in crypto were content to ride the waves of market cycles, Injective spent 2025 building the future of finance, block by block, integration by integration, innovation by innovation. This wasn’t just another year of incremental upgrades; it was a quantum leap that transformed Injective from a high-performance blockchain into the definitive pioneer of cutting-edge onchain finance innovation.
From launching the first native EVM layer that unifies WASM and EVM execution environments to welcoming Fortune 500 giants as validators, from democratizing access to pre-IPO markets to pioneering AI-powered development tools, Injective proved that the future of finance isn’t coming, it’s already here. The ecosystem processed billions of transactions, welcomed hundreds of thousands of new users, and established itself as the institutional standard for tokenized assets and decentralized finance.
Injective 2025 End of Year Snapshot:
- 2.7 billion transactions processed
- 1.4 billion in 2025 transactions processed
- #2 in developer activity across all L1s
- 147 million blocks produced
- $75 billion in cumulative trading volume
- $30 billion in 2025 onchain CLOB trading volume
- $6.1 billion in 2025 RWA volume (Public/Private equities, commodities, FX, exotics)
- $4.5 billion in 2025 Equities volume
- $83.9 million in average daily trading volume
- #9 in 2025 net flows
- 90,600 daily active users
- 138,600 monthly active users
Read on to discover the breakthroughs that made 2025 Injective’s most transformative year yet.
Welcome to the Injective Era: Native EVM Mainnet Launch Opens New Frontiers for Finance
Injective launched its native EVM mainnet, the most anticipated upgrade in the network’s history, creating an unmatched development environment that enables builders to create applications across both WASM and EVM. This release positions Injective as the first blockchain to unify assets, liquidity, and Web3 modules across multiple virtual machines without compromise.
The mainnet delivers 0.64-second block times, transaction fees as low as $0.00008, and true MultiVM composability where EVM and WASM contracts share state through the MultiVM Token Standard. Thirty-plus dApps and infrastructure providers launched alongside the mainnet, offering lend/borrow markets, tokenized traditional assets, pre-IPO exposure, advanced derivatives, and institutional-grade custody. The Injective Flywheel creates a virtuous cycle where shared liquidity modules and familiar developer tools accelerate ecosystem growth, setting a new standard for how decentralized finance platforms should be built and operated.
Injective and Google Cloud to Provide Tools and Secure, Scalable Infrastructure for Developer Growth Across the Injective Ecosystem
Google Cloud released a comprehensive integration with Injective to provide developers with enterprise-grade tools and scalable infrastructure for building next-generation financial applications. This collaboration leverages Google Cloud’s robust infrastructure to support Injective’s rapidly expanding ecosystem of dApps and institutional partners.
The collaboration provides developers with secure, scalable infrastructure essential for deploying sophisticated DeFi protocols and tokenized asset platforms. By combining Injective’s purpose-built financial modules with Google Cloud’s global network and advanced security protocols, the cooperation removes technical barriers that have historically limited web3 innovation. This integration enables developers to focus on creating novel financial primitives rather than infrastructure management, accelerating the pace of innovation across the Injective ecosystem and supporting the network’s mission to democratize access to global financial markets.
Canary Capital Files for First U.S. Staked INJ ETF with the SEC
Canary Capital, a leading digital asset fund manager, filed with the SEC to launch the first US exchange-traded fund offering regulated exposure to staked INJ. The proposed ETF would provide retail and institutional investors with direct exposure to staked INJ through a regulated investment vehicle, bridging traditional and onchain finance.
The filing coincides with Crypto Week in Congress, where lawmakers considered three landmark bills: the CLARITY Act defining token securities/commodities classification, the GENIUS Act creating federal payment stablecoin frameworks, and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act. The staked nature of the ETF is particularly noteworthy, as it would actively participate in Injective’s proof-of-stake consensus, generating staking rewards while contributing to network security. This aligns perfectly with Injective’s vision of creating sustainable, economically aligned incentives for network participants and follows the successful European launch of 21Shares’s AINJ exchange-traded product a year earlier.
Injective Releases iBuild: The New Standard for AI-Powered Onchain Development
Injective launched iBuild, a revolutionary AI-powered development platform that enables anyone to create fully-functional decentralized applications using only natural language prompts. For the first time in web3 history, onchain apps from tokenization protocols to DEXs can be built without any prior coding experience, compressing development timelines from months to minutes.
The platform leverages leading AI models from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek to generate production-ready smart contracts, user interfaces, and backend infrastructure automatically. iBuild addresses the exploding vibe coding market, projected to reach $37 billion by 2032, by removing technical barriers while maintaining Injective’s security, speed, and composability. Users can tokenize stocks, launch prediction markets, deploy perpetual futures, and create complex financial products simply by describing their vision, empowering a new generation of builders to create the financial primitives that will power tomorrow’s global markets.
Injective Announces Launch of INJ and Staking on Revolut
Revolut, Europe’s most valuable fintech company with 65 million retail customers across 39 countries, officially listed INJ and enabled zero-fee staking across its entire ecosystem of financial products. The integration spans Revolut’s flagship Retail App, Revolut Business platform, and professional-grade Revolut X trading platform, instantly providing unprecedented access to INJ through one of the world’s largest and most trusted financial platforms that executes over 1 billion monthly transactions.
What distinguishes this integration is Revolut’s zero platform fees on INJ staking rewards, ensuring 100% of yields (currently up to 12.64% APR) flow directly to users without the typical 5-30% commissions charged by other platforms. Users can seamlessly stake INJ without managing private keys, selecting validators, or understanding complex unbonding periods. This development arrives as Revolut’s crypto revenues jumped 298% year-over-year to £3.1 billion, positioning the platform as critical infrastructure for mainstream DeFi adoption and bringing TradFi and DeFi closer together to expand the global financial landscape.
Deutsche Telekom, Parent Company of T-Mobile, Joins Injective as a Validator
Deutsche Telekom MMS, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom, joined Injective’s validator set, setting a new connection between traditional enterprise infrastructure and cutting-edge blockchain technology. With over 252 million mobile customers worldwide and infrastructure spanning 50+ countries, Deutsche Telekom brings enterprise-grade reliability and institutional participation to the network.
Deutsche Telekom’s global data centers, proven mission-critical systems management, and 24/7 monitoring ensure seamless node operations with minimal downtime. This integration creates a robust foundation for TradFi institutions to leverage Injective’s onchain financial ecosystem, from real-world asset primitives to AI-driven DeFi applications, redefining the future of institutional finance.
The Future Starts Here: Introducing The New Injective
Injective unveiled a comprehensive brand identity evolution that reflects its transformation into one of Web3’s largest blockchain networks. The rebrand goes beyond visual aesthetics to articulate Injective’s boldest vision yet: democratizing finance through decentralization by bridging traditional and onchain finance for users worldwide, regardless of nationality, net worth, or location.
iAgent 2.0: Powering the Next Generation of AI Agents on Injective
Injective unveiled iAgent 2.0, a transformative upgrade that redefines onchain AI development by integrating the Eliza multi-agent framework with Injective’s financial infrastructure. This release creates unique synergistic potential in the exploding DeFAI sector, combining the most advanced agent framework with purpose-built blockchain modules.
The upgrade introduces ten powerful features including multi-agent orchestration, social media platform integration, customizable data pipelines, and support for localized AI models from Llama, Grok, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Developers can now create DeFAI swarms for autonomous financial services, advanced trading agents that operate at the API level, and self-improving agents capable of deploying their own smart contracts. The framework leverages Injective’s native modules, Wasm-based environment, and cross-chain IBC communication to enable complex workflows impossible on standard chains, positioning Injective as the premier destination for agentic infrastructure.
Injective Launches Onchain Pre-IPO Markets
Injective redefined global markets by launching the world’s first Pre-IPO perpetual futures markets, bringing the $2+ trillion private company equity market directly onchain. This breakthrough enables anyone to trade exposure to major private companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, and Perplexity with up to 5x leverage, democratizing access to previously inaccessible asset classes.
Traditional barriers including $1+ million minimums, long lockup periods, and complex compliance processes have left 87% of global private companies inaccessible to everyday investors. Injective’s onchain architecture eliminates these frictions, while Caplight data shows the Top 20 Pre-IPO Index returned 72% in 2024, significantly outperforming public markets. By tokenizing private company exposure and enabling composability across DeFi, Injective ensures these assets become programmable and globally distributed without legacy intermediaries, delivering on its core mission to make sophisticated financial instruments accessible to everyone, everywhere.
Introducing the INJ Community BuyBack
Injective launched the Community BuyBack, a monthly onchain event that democratizes participation in the network’s deflationary mechanism. Participants commit INJ and receive pro-rata shares of ecosystem revenue, while the committed INJ is permanently burned, reducing total supply and increasing scarcity.
The Community BuyBack evolved from the original Burn Auction’s winner-take-all model to a more accessible, community-driven design that aligns long-term value with ecosystem success. This transparent, onchain mechanism rewards community members while maintaining low transaction fees regardless of network activity.
Injective Launches the TradFi Index to Bring the Largest Publicly Traded Stocks Onchain
Injective revolutionized market access by launching the TradFi Index perpetual market (Ticker: TRADFI) through Helix, tracking hundreds of the largest publicly traded equities in a single cohesive index. This breakthrough enables 24/7 trading with up to 25X leverage, eliminating traditional market constraints and democratizing access to cornerstone financial assets.
The index includes major companies like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and hundreds more, representing the most important equities in global finance. By offering permissionless access without brokerage requirements or residency restrictions, Injective eliminates inefficiencies associated with legacy markets while providing enhanced transparency and accessibility.
Injective Joins The Leading US Government Pro-Crypto Advocacy Group, The Blockchain Association
Injective officially joined the Blockchain Association, the premier US pro-crypto advocacy group, to advance national policy and regulatory frameworks that position America as the crypto capital of the world. As a selected member, Injective now stands alongside industry giants like Brevan Howard, Circle, Coinbase, and Pantera Capital to drive effective change at local and national government levels.
The Association focuses on key policy areas including DeFi development, securities law clarity for token classification, NFT benefits, and stablecoin infrastructure. Injective gains strategic benefits through enhanced policy advocacy influence, strategic connections with industry leaders, and regulatory clarity. This membership underscores Injective’s commitment to responsible growth within the evolving regulatory landscape, contributing to a more secure, competitive, and consumer-friendly Web3 ecosystem while ensuring industry priorities are reflected in policy for years to come.
Kraken Powers Pineapple’s $100M INJ Treasury Through Its Institutional Validator on Injective
Kraken, one of the longest-standing cryptocurrency exchanges serving 15+ million users across 190+ jurisdictions, joined Injective’s validator set to secure Pineapple’s $100 million INJ treasury. This collaboration underscores Kraken’s pivotal role in advancing institutional adoption of onchain finance and supporting the migration of traditional assets onto blockchain infrastructure.
Kraken’s decade-long operational excellence, recently earning it the #1 ranking in Kaiko’s Q3 2025 exchange assessment, complements Injective’s mission to democratize financial markets worldwide. Institutions can participate in non-custodial staking by delegating INJ directly to Kraken’s validator, building on existing support for INJ trading, secure qualified custody, integrated liquidity, and structured product options.
The Largest Institutional Yield Platform, Upshift, Launches on Injective
Injective expanded its institutional finance footprint by launching its first managed stablecoin yield strategy vault with Upshift, the largest institutional yield platform. This integration democratizes access to sophisticated yield strategies typically reserved for institutional investors, offering APYs that can exceed double digits through battle-tested quantitative strategies.
The USDT Vault employs systematic market-making optimization across Helix markets and automated quantitative strategies, removing technical and accreditation barriers through a one-click interface. This launch builds on Injective’s Q1 2025 momentum, which included expanding real-world asset offerings through the iAssets framework and Helix reaching $50 billion in cumulative trading volume. By bringing institutional investment strategies onchain, Injective and Upshift create new pathways for capital flow between TradFi and DeFi.
$100 Billion Institutional Trust, BitGo, Extends Institutional-Grade Infrastructure to Injective
Injective added BitGo, the world’s largest staking platform with over $100 billion in institutional trust, as an institutional-grade validator powered by Twinstake. BitGo’s infrastructure secures over $100 billion in assets under custody and manages $48 billion in staked assets across 90+ countries, bringing unparalleled security and scale to the Injective ecosystem.
This integration supports Injective’s growing tokenization ecosystem, which includes collaborations with Republic and Libre in collaboration with Nomura’s Laser Digital. BitGo’s expertise in asset tokenization and custody accelerates institutional adoption of onchain financial products, providing its extensive client base with direct access to Injective’s innovative DeFi ecosystem.
Republic Launches Wallet & Launchpad Support for Injective
Republic, the global investment platform with over $3 billion deployed across 3,000+ fundraises, launched a comprehensive Injective integration including native wallet support and a dedicated launchpad for Injective-based projects. This brings institutional-grade tokenization capabilities to the blockchain built for finance, leveraging Republic’s FINRA-registered status and licenses across the US, UK, EU, UAE, South Korea, and Singapore.
The integration includes Republic Wallet support for direct Injective-native asset access, a specialized launchpad enabling Injective projects to access Republic’s network of accredited and retail investors, and expanded validator support aligning Republic with elite institutional validators like Google Cloud and Deutsche Telekom. This collaboration comes as the RWA market reaches $53 billion globally, with Injective’s specialized RWA module providing the technical infrastructure for institutional-grade tokenization. The cooperation enables co-development of new onchain investment products, combining Republic’s tokenization expertise with Injective’s purpose-built blockchain infrastructure.
Chainlink Now Live on Injective as Its Preferred Oracle Solution
Injective integrated Chainlink as its preferred oracle solution, bringing the industry’s most secure and reliable price feeds to the ecosystem. This integration provides developers with access to Chainlink Data Streams, which deliver sub-second, verifiable market data for both crypto and traditional assets. Helix, Injective’s premier DEX, became the first protocol to adopt Chainlink Data Streams across its markets, enabling lightning-fast trading experiences with institutional-grade data reliability.
The collaboration transforms Injective into a complete, production-ready infrastructure layer for onchain finance, having enabled over $26 trillion in onchain transaction value across the industry.
Developers can now leverage battle-tested oracle infrastructure alongside Injective’s groundbreaking orderbook, Web3 modules, MultiVM infrastructure, and RWA tokenization capabilities without building custom integrations. This full-stack solution dramatically accelerates time-to-market for dApps while maintaining security at the forefront, positioning Injective to attract the next wave of financial application builders in tokenized assets, derivatives, and novel trading mechanisms.
Injective Releases the First-Ever Onchain NVIDIA GPU Market
Injective pioneered the first onchain NVIDIA GPU market, creating a revolutionary new asset class that tokenizes computational resources. This breakthrough enables users to trade exposure to GPU compute resources through perpetual futures markets, bringing the $20+ billion GPU market directly onchain.
The launch addresses the exploding demand for AI compute resources, where NVIDIA GPUs have become the foundational infrastructure for machine learning and artificial intelligence. By tokenizing GPU compute, Injective creates a liquid, transparent market for one of the most critical resources in the modern digital economy. This development demonstrates Injective’s ability to tokenize not just traditional financial assets but also real-world computational resources, expanding the definition of what can be traded onchain. The GPU perpetuals join Injective’s growing roster of tokenized real-world assets, including commodities, equities, and pre-IPO shares.
A Year of Transformation, A Future of Possibility
2025 was more than just a remarkable year for Injective—it was a vindication of a bold vision. While skeptics questioned whether decentralized finance could ever rival traditional markets, Injective spent twelve months methodically reimagining the infrastructure barriers that separated crypto from finance's future. The result is a fully realized ecosystem where institutional validators like Deutsche Telekom and BitGo sit alongside AI-powered agents and retail traders, where pre-IPO companies and public equities trade 24/7 without friction, and where a fintech giant with 65 million users (Revolut) brings staking directly to mainstream finance.
The 2025 milestones weren't isolated achievements—they form a coherent narrative. The Native EVM Mainnet unified developer experiences. iBuild democratized code itself. The TradFi Index brought public markets on-chain. Republic's launchpad and BitGo's custody created institutional-grade infrastructure. Chainlink's integration secured the data layer. Google Cloud supplied the scalability. And monthly Community Buybacks ensured the community benefited from the ecosystem's success.
But 2025 was only the beginning. The foundation is now set for what comes next: the seamless merger of $150+ trillion in global financial assets with programmable, composable, permissionless blockchains. Institutions are no longer asking whether they should adopt onchain finance—they're asking how quickly they can. Developers are no longer constrained by the limitations of legacy platforms. And users worldwide now have access to financial instruments that were previously reserved for the wealthy few.
Injective didn't just provide an incremental upgrade to TradFi. It launched the future of finance itself. And the best part? The ecosystem has barely scratched the surface of what's possible.
Welcome to the Injective Era. The future of finance starts here—and it's only just begun.
About Injective
Injective is a lightning fast interoperable layer one blockchain optimized for building premier Web3 finance applications. Injective provides developers with powerful plug-and-play modules for creating unmatched dApps. INJ is the native asset that powers Injective and its rapidly growing ecosystem. Injective is incubated by Binance and is backed by prominent investors such as Jump Crypto, Pantera and Mark Cuban.
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