microsoft hq.
azure credits.
funding.
mentorship.
all through @injective
one week left to apply for the nova program.
this isn’t the opportunity to sleep on.
three weeks out and the @injective summit is already bringing together people who move real money.
let me run through what happened this week.
▸ the speaker lineup kept growing, and it’s getting harder to ignore.
confirmed for july 16 in washington:
◆ blackrock veteran
◆ grayscale
◆ invesco
◆ pantera
◆ circle
◆ a sitting federal regulator
◆ three members of congress
▸ kathleen wrynn is joining.
she leads digital assets at invesco, a multi-trillion dollar asset manager.
that alone says a lot about where onchain finance is heading.
▸ circle will be in the room too.
the issuer behind the world’s leading dollar and euro stablecoins will be sitting alongside the teams building the infrastructure those assets run on.
▸ chainlink’s charlie durkin is confirmed.
the oracle network behind much of today’s defi ecosystem is sending its solutions lead to washington.
▸ john medel took the injective policy institute’s case for the clarity act to cnbc.
not a crypto podcast.
cnbc.
the conversation around regulatory clarity is reaching the audiences that shape policy.
▸ cryptorank published a report on what a finance-native layer 1 actually looks like.
highlights include:
◆ native usdc
◆ the first us-regulated inj futures
◆ three etf filings
all arriving on injective within months of each other.
now the numbers.
◆ injective ranks among the top five chains by net inflows this year.
◆ more than $250 million has moved onchain to injective in 2025.
on the ecosystem side:
▸ concentrated liquidity is now live on choice exchange.
liquidity providers can now place capital exactly where they want it instead of spreading it across the entire price curve.
a meaningful upgrade for anyone providing liquidity seriously.
three weeks to go.
the room is filling up.
and it keeps getting bigger.
a lot happened on @injective this week.
let me run through it.
▸ coinbase is adding native inj support.
that means deposits and withdrawals through the injective evm on the largest us exchange.
that’s a major distribution unlock.
▸ khalid and ahn hyo-seop tokenized their single “something special” on injective.
it’s the first fan-owned hit single, giving fans a real stake in the song.
not many people saw that use case coming, but it worked.
▸ pantera capital is backing the injective summit.
the same fund that backed injective six years ago is now bringing that conviction to washington.
▸ the summit lineup keeps getting stronger.
◇ grayscale’s krista lynch
◇ joseph chalom of sharplink, the executive who helped shape blackrock’s digital asset strategy.
now for the numbers.
◆ helix markets surpassed $77.8 billion in cumulative trading volume.
◆ more than $272 million was added in the last seven days.
◆ over 700 ai agents joined injective in the last 30 days.
◆ hydro lending crossed $6.5 million in supplied and borrowed assets.
◆ more than 3,000 tokenized pokemon, nfl, and nba cards are now live on injective through realmint.
◆ choice exchange launched explore, a token discovery hub with charts, market stats, and integrated swaps.
everything points in the same direction.
✦ music
✦ trading cards
✦ ai agents
✦ institutional players
✦ defi volume
all on the same chain.
injective isn’t trying to be just one thing anymore.
it’s becoming the layer where serious onchain finance runs.
People usually judge a blockchain project by its token price.
I prefer to look at what people are using.
Back in April, RWA perpetuals powered by @PythNetwork reached $173 billion, with 1/3 from the RWA perpetual market.
In May, Pyth powered $130 billion in total trading volume. Of that, $110 billion came from RWA perpetuals alone.
Gold
Oil contracts
Tokenized stocks, name it.
June is still counting.
So far, Pyth has already supported more than $100 billion in total trading volume, with roughly $80 billion coming from RWA markets.
That growth didn't happen overnight.
Even as monthly volumes fluctuate, the growth is very visible. Demand for commodities, equities, indices, and other real world markets onchain keeps growing.
And it is not slowing down, not anytime soon.
By the time Q1 2026 closed, RWA perp volume across the market had already hit $524 billion for the quarter, more than the entire $313 billion recorded for all of 2025.
Pyth alone has now powered more than $3.25 trillion in trading volume across the ecosystems that rely on its price feeds.
The oracle layer that does not make headlines is the one that determines whether a perp market can actually function.
When oil moves 3% on a Saturday morning and every futures desk is offline, the contract still needs a price. The settlement still has to happen. The margin calculations still have to run.
That requires data that does not close on weekends, and does not depend on a single source that someone could influence.
Pyth's model covers that.
Over 125 data providers, which include trading firms and exchanges that are actually active in the markets they are pricing, feed directly into the system.
No middleman deciding what the price is.
The people trading the asset are the ones reporting its price.
As more exchanges bring traditional assets onchain, the infrastructure behind those prices becomes just as important as the markets themselves.
Pyth isn't only following the growth of onchain finance, it's helping make that growth possible.
Money moves every day,
yet for millions of people in emerging markets, sending payments, exchanging currencies, or accessing basic financial services is still slow, expensive, or simply out of reach.
@Canza_Finance is working to solve this.
Canza Finance is an open finance platform building financial infrastructure for Africa and other emerging markets.
It combines blockchain technology with local financial networks to make cross border payments, stablecoin settlement, foreign exchange, and real world assets more accessible to individuals and businesses.
Canza isn't trying to replace the financial system, it's connecting the pieces that already exist and making them work better through blockchain.
Its ecosystem includes:
➩ Baki, a marketplace for African foreign exchange and liquidity.
➩ CAPP, an AI powered payment routing protocol that helps move money across borders faster and at a lower cost.
➩ RWA infrastructure, making it easier for people to access tokenized real world assets.
➩ CXDS, a product being developed to help users manage credit risk on exchange deposits.
The bigger picture is financial inclusion.
Canza wants someone running a small business in Lagos, Nairobi, or Accra to have access to modern financial tools without the usual barriers of expensive intermediaries or fragmented payment systems.
For more info:
Twitter 👉 @Canza_Finance
Website 👉 https://t.co/BHLPtKMS9A
i’ve been seeing a lot about prediction markets recently, so i finally decided to give one a proper try.
recorded the whole process too.
funded my wallet, opened the argentina vs jordan market on @XBITDEX.
chose my leverage, and picked argentina to win.
what stood out to me is that XBIT isn’t built around someone setting odds for you.
it’s an on-chain platform where the market decides the price. every number you see reflects what traders collectively think is most likely to happen, and if you think that price is off, you can trade your view instead of just talking about it.
the leverage side is interesting as well.
instead of opening the full position with all your capital, you can use margin to increase your exposure.
obviously that cuts both ways, so it’s something to manage carefully.
i’m curious to see how this one plays out. if argentina gets the job done, great.
if not, i’ll own the call 😂
join me and start Leverage trading :https://t.co/psP1PjNaNc
@XBITDEX_ZH #XBIT
in april, bitnomial listed the first US regulated $INJ futures
not an offshore perpetual
not a gray area derivative
an actual regulated product backed by a real compliance framework
institutions do not put their name behind something like that unless they see long term value and that is only part of the story
@injective ranks among the top 10 layer 1s by protocol revenue over the past 12 months
it has processed $6.8b in rwa volume across tokenized equities, commodities, and fx
three etf filings are already on the table
native usdc settlement is coming through circle’s cctp
every piece serious onchain finance needs:
- settlement
- liquidity
- regulated access
- execution infrastructure
injective is building all of it at the same time
not roadmap promises
not “coming soon”
being built right now
most chains are still trying to figure out one of these pieces
injective is bringing them all together and that is what makes this different
https://t.co/7D9pMSx1p9
people keep calling prediction markets “just gambling with extra steps.”
i used to think that too.
then i spent time understanding what @XBITDEX actually built and hrealized they are fundamentally different.
the distinction matters.
let me explain. 🧵
#XBIT
Every time you post something that gets traction, someone is getting paid.
It is not you.
You wrote it.
You built the audience.
You spent the time figuring out what to say and how to say it.
But the money generated from that attention, the ad revenue, the brand deals, the data being packaged and sold, none of that finds its way back to the person who actually created the moment.
That is not an accident. It is the architecture.
@xypermarket is built on a different one.
Xyper is an onchain marketplace where projects pay creators directly for content and distribution.
No middleman or agency. But through a smart contract that holds the reward pool and pays out automatically based on how well the content actually performs.
No minimum follower count that locks out everyone who doesn't have large following.
Just open campaigns, real budgets, and a scoring system that evaluates what you made based on how good it actually is.
Xyper is a little different too as it was not built only for human creators. It was built for AI agents too.
An autonomous agent can connect to the platform, browse live campaigns, generate content, submit it, and claim the rewards without a human touching the keyboard once it is running.
There is an open source Agent Skill on GitHub that gives any AI agent everything it needs to discover campaigns, create content, execute tasks, and earn onchain around the clock.
Most platforms are still thinking about human creators. Xyper is already ready for the part where software does the creating too. The campaigns do not care whether the post came from a person at 2pm or an agent at 2am. They care whether the content worked.
There is also a referral program in the system. Refer a person through your link and you earn up to 20% of the rewards they generate, automatically, through the same smart contract infrastructure.
That percentage depends on the quality and volume of what they produce. It compounds quietly in the background while you are doing everything else.
The platform runs on Unit Zero and payouts land in $UNIT0 tokens.
Most content platforms were built to extract value from the people producing the content.
@xypermarket was built to move it back to the people creating the content.
Visit https://t.co/Q8zuq5EvE1 to get started.
people keep asking what a “settlement layer for onchain finance” actually means.
vulcan just answered that.
90% cheaper oracle gas. pyth pro data. tokenized rwas. canonical usdc. evm apps reading @injective prices natively. ledger multisig for institutions.
this isn’t a feature drop.
it’s @injective becoming the base layer serious onchain finance runs on.
the infrastructure is here.
now watch what gets built on top.
find out more at: https://t.co/cZBdogwtYF
here’s the thing nobody’s saying out loud.
the next wave of traders won’t have a sleep schedule. won’t panic. won’t fomo in at the top.
they’re ai agents, and on @injective they’re already live.
opening and closing perps.
managing risk in real time.
paying each other for data and execution through x402 micropayments. all of it settling on a fully on-chain orderbook.
no middlemen. no latency excuses. no humans slowing the loop down.
finance isn’t just being rebuilt for people anymore. it’s being built for software that acts on its own and needs the speed and fees to match.
that’s what @injective is.
find out at: https://t.co/fZkygcRSKH
imagine trading oil on a sunday with no reliable reference price.
that wasn’t a hypothetical.
it was reality until @PythNetwork launched pyth indices.
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