Trade finance has always been the most natural fit for this technology and the hardest part of it to reach. More than $5 trillion in annual financing, still running on fragmented records and days of manual reconciliation. Most work so far stopped at the edge of the problem: payments, document digitization. The balance sheet is a different order of difficulty.
Tokenize a receivable and you inherit everything attached to it. Owed across jurisdictions, subject to KYC/AML in each one, transferable only between approved parties, and still answerable to a corporate treasury and its auditors. The pilot also puts AI agents on the document review that sits in front of all of it.
Any chain can mint that token. The question is whether it obeys those rules on every hop without the enterprise building and maintaining that logic itself. On most L1s compliance is an application sitting on top. On Injective it sits at the protocol layer, so permissioning, KYC/AML and transfer restrictions travel with the receivable.
That's why the choice carries weight. LG CNS built the Bank of Korea's CBDC pilot and the security token platforms behind KOSCOM and Mirae Asset Securities. They've evaluated this landscape more carefully than most banks.
Korea's largest trader and its most experienced enterprise blockchain team built it on Injective.
1/ POSCO International and LG CNS have selected Injective to power its first ever blockchain-based trade finance pilot.
South Korea's largest trading company has successfully completed a transaction using trade receivables generated through real commercial activity on Injective, marking a major step toward bringing one of the world's largest financial markets onchain.
The pilot combines tokenized trade receivables, synchronized onchain records shared across participating organizations and AI-assisted review of Letters of Credit and trade documentation, creating a more unified workflow from issuance through settlement.
Trade finance supports more than $5 trillion in annual financing, yet much of the infrastructure behind it still relies on fragmented records, manual reconciliation and disconnected systems. This collaboration demonstrates how shared public blockchain infrastructure can modernize global trade finance.
Injective CEO @ericinjective was interviewed at the @NYSE to speak on the launch of $iNJC, the Staked INJ ETF, enabling institutions and everyday users to have unmatched access to $INJ and its rapidly growing ecosystem.
Fun fireside chat with Tom Digby from Invesco in Hong Kong.
ETFs and onchain markets are often framed as competitors. On stage it felt more like two sides solving each otherโs missing pieces.
Injective is Making Headlines!
During our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit, I got to interview @AndKrypto from @injective to learn more about the $INJ Staked ETF!
Not every day you share a stage with Fidelity, Franklin Templeton and BlackRock.
Different views on distribution, rails and who holds the keys, but the same direction: tokenized funds have to do something for investors, not just exist onchain.
Great conversation at #HKDAS, thanks Jame for keeping us honest.
Hail a cab in New York and $INJ might just pull up ๐
We went from ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq to lighting up Wall Street and now thousands of taxis across NYC.
Injective is taking over the financial capital of the world.
Slowly, then all at once.
What a morning at @Nasdaq! ๐
Thank you to @canaryfunds for letting us join them for the opening bell, and congratulations on $INJCโs listing.๐ค
Cheers to @injective and the whole team on bringing the $INJ Staked ETF to market.
Injective ringing the opening bell at @NasdaqExchange was featured on @CNBC today, one of the largest tv networks in the world.
The bell ringing celebrates the release of the first $INJ ETF by Canary Capital which uniquely offers staking yield.
Today, Injective made history by ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq to celebrate the launch of the $INJ Staked ETF, becoming one of the only crypto assets to have an official U.S. listed ETF.
A few years ago Injective was just an idea.
I remember my first day in the middle of COVID in 2020 sharing one desk in a coworking space with @ericinjective because thatโs all we could afford. We took effectively zero salary while working 18 hour shifts. No one around me understood exactly why I would dive headfirst into such uncharted waters in an industry that seemed doomed to fail according to all the tech and mainstream pundits.
Our goal of creating a blockchain just for finance was so outlandish that fundraising became a literal nightmare. It couldn't be done, too complex, too many variables and not enough upside in an already crowded field of crypto competitors according to the VCs.
But through all the struggle and pain, I knew with the family I found here at Injective I could achieve anything. Despite the bad press that seemed to surround crypto, draconian regulations designed to impede our progress, massive hacks in the industry and the downfall of once lauded companies, Injective survived it all.
And over time we found others who started to believe in our vision. Slowly but surely, we built a massive coalition of users, traders, builders, institutions and everyday people who believed in bringing financial freedom to all through the tech we were building. We brought major funds to our corner from Binance all the way to legendary entrepreneurs like Mark Cuban. And what was once just an idea being built by a few crazy kids in the middle of COVID became not just a unicorn but an absolute force in the blockchain industry that would redefine what the internet economy can look like in the 21st century.
Today, we have built a team of 70 of the smartest and hardest working people I have ever come across. We have reached millions of new users and community members. We have brought some of the world's largest banks, enterprises and financial institutions onchain with global giants like Google Cloud and LG joining our ecosystem. We have brought billions of dollars in tokenized real world assets to our chain. We also overcame years of regulatory hurdles and today have become the first layer 1 blockchain ecosystem with an SEC registered transfer agent, enabling us to lead the new era of tokenized markets.
And we're now working at the absolute frontier of the next era of finance. From tokenization and real world assets to institutional grade infrastructure and the emerging onchain agentic economy, we're building the foundations for an entirely new financial system.
More than anything else, Injective has taught me that the only limit to what you can achieve in this life is your own inner drive. And anything worth achieving was never meant to be easy.
I will forever be grateful for this opportunity to play a role in this journey. My team and I will not rest until we have truly created a new financial system that democratizes real financial opportunity for all.
Our best days are still ahead of us. We have an entire financial system to change and we're only getting started ๐ฅท
Gutted I missed this one. While the team was ringing the bell at Nasdaq, I was in Hong Kong telling everyone who'd listen.
$INJC is live. First U.S. ETF with spot $INJ and staking.
Couldn't be prouder of this team ๐
Bridging digital asset innovation and investor access. $INJC marks a milestone as the first U.S. ETF offering spot exposure to Injective $INJ alongside staking rewards.
Congratulations to @CanaryFunds and @injective. #NasdaqListed
๐ค $INJ, now in an ETF.
$INJC offers exposure to INJ through a registered ETF structure, with staking rewards opportunity.
Search $INJC.
https://t.co/UIgFYlNh2I and https://t.co/DOBTgvR48B
The Canary INJ ETF (Ticker: INJC) is an exchange-traded product that is not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) and therefore is not subject to the same regulations and protections as ETFs and mutual funds registered under the 1940 Act. Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. An investment in INJC is subject to a high degree of risk and heightened volatility and is not suitable for investors who cannot afford the loss of their entire investment. An investment in INJC is not a direct investment in INJ.
Injective just rang the opening bell at @Nasdaq ๐
Our CEO @ericinjective joined Canary CEO @StevenMcClurg to open the market and celebrate the launch of $INJC, the $INJ Staked ETF.
What started in a dorm room in 2018 is now at the center of Wall Street.
Much more to come.
The Canary Staked INJ ETF, $INJC, is officially live and trading on @Nasdaq. Even the Nasdaq tower in Times Square says so.
Out of thousands of crypto assets, only around a dozen have a US ETF. $INJ is now one of them.
Wall Street, meet $INJ.
A historic milestone for us here at Injective and the broader crypto industry.
With this, INJ is set to join an extraordinarily exclusive group of major crypto assets alongside $BTC, $ETH and $SOL with a U.S. regulated ETF.
The biggest step yet in bringing $INJ to Wall Street.