The Injective Stockdrop is LIVE!
The $INJ Community BuyBack is complete, nearing 7.3 million INJ burned to-date.
Now, for the first time ever, participants can also earn tokenized stocks on Solana.
Check the Injective Hub to see if you got in and claim your reward, from Nvidia to Tesla and more.
Injective just burned $187,664 worth of $INJ this month.
Every month, @injective revenue flows into the Community BuyBack.
INJ is burned and users earn a share of revenue & onchain stocks.
This is the nINJa way 🥷
The Injective community buyback and stockdrop will be happen in 4 hours.
The $INJ Community BuyBack is bringing even more to the table.
Earn a share of onchain revenue and get the chance to receive tokenized stocks.
The second-ever Stockdrop, and the first one alongside @solana.
Burn INJ. Unlock more rewards. Be part of the next chapter of onchain finance.
More utility, more burns, more reasons to be bullish on the @injective ecosystem. 🔥
LATEST: ⚡ Injective has launched a perpetual futures market tied to rental prices for five Nvidia GPUs, letting traders take up to 10x leveraged positions on AI computing costs with USDC margin.
Compute is pretty clearly one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI right now, so putting an onchain market around GPU rental prices makes a lot of sense.
@injective has been pushing AI finance onchain for a while (H100 market, AIX, pre-IPO perps, etc.).
$SICI feels like a natural next step not just exposure to the companies, but to the actual cost of the infrastructure powering them.
Unique idea and the timing lines up with still-high AI demand.
Not sure it’ll go parabolic overnight, but it’s worth watching.
$INJ
A new era of options infrastructure is coming to Injective.
Just one day after launching the Super Intelligence Compute Index ($SICI), Injective is officially unveiling Injective Options, introducing an entirely new financial primitive for developers, institutions and users.
Now LIVE on testnet.
The initial launch brings fully backed calls and puts across six distinct markets:
→ SICI: The first onchain AI compute index
→ US500: The top 500 US companies
→ US Tech: The top 100 US technology companies
→ Gold, Silver and Oil: Global commodities
Every option is fully collateralized using native Injective USDC, as USDC becomes a canonical standard across more than 20 blockchains.
But these initial markets only represent just a fraction of what’s possible on $INJ starting now
Developers can leverage the new options infrastructure to build white label exchanges, launch their own derivatives protocols and introduce entirely new financial products without building the underlying infrastructure from scratch.
Institutions can create customized derivatives and hedging products, while users gain access to new markets and the ability to trade or write options directly onchain.
As more applications launch, they can generate entirely new revenue streams for builders while bringing additional trading activity, liquidity and fees to Injective and its broader ecosystem.
Injective isn’t building just another options exchange. It’s introducing the composable infrastructure for an entire ecosystem of options protocols to thrive and interact with financial primitives across the onchain universe.
And this is only the beginning.
Today, Injective introduced a brand-new options infrastructure primitive, allowing developers and institutions to leverage next-gen onchain options in just a few clicks.
Here is a live demo showcasing onchain RWA options markets on $INJ in action.
Injective just dropped the Super Intelligence Compute Index (SICI) and it’s live on mainnet right now.
Basically, they’re putting the actual price of AI compute onchain for the first time in a real, tradable way.
$SICI is an onchain benchmark that tracks the hourly rental costs of five Nvidia GPUs, so you can finally get direct exposure to the compute powering the whole AI boom instead of just trading the stocks around it.
You can trade it as a perpetual with up to 10x leverage using USDC as margin.
That means AI builders can hedge rising GPU rental costs, cloud providers can hedge their revenue, and traders can just speculate on whether compute is getting more expensive or cheaper.
We’re tokenizing the Korean won for the first time on Injective.
One of the world’s largest currencies is coming onchain to power a next-gen RWA ecosystem, and it lands in the same week that also brought a $INJ BuyBack worth up to $251,000 and private swaps across 37 chains.
Below is everything that moved on Injective this past week ⤵️
🟪 KRW1 brings won settlement to onchain RWAs on Injective, issued by @BDACSKorea as Korea’s first won backed stablecoin with reserves held at a major Korean bank.
🟪 The $INJ Community BuyBack went live with up to $251,000 in INJ set to be burned, plus bonus onchain stocks on @solana for participants coming up.
🟪 Launch tokens on Solana paired with $INJ through @runupdotfun, now live, and earn $INJ rewards by holding them.
🟪 Private swaps on Injective now go both ways with Nox Superswap from @TryNoxApp, which moves assets in from or out to 37 chains through NEAR Confidential Intents.
📊 Key Stats
🟪 More than 7.2 million $INJ has been burned to date, fueled each month by Injective revenue flowing into the Community BuyBack.
🟪 Injective's onchain revenue growth is accelerating, putting it ahead of many major blockchains in the space such as @dfinity and @SuiNetwork.
🟪 USDC supply on Injective is up 43% in the last month to $16.5M, and over $100M in stablecoin supply is set to migrate here soon as we become the canonical stablecoin standard for 20+ chains including @cosmos.
🌐 Ecosystem News
🟪 Our COO @mirza told @CNBC how 24/7 access and value retention can bring tokenized stocks onshore in the U.S.
🟪 @FinchTechAI, an AI-native marketplace with 35,000+ users and 10,000+ skills deployed, is now building on Injective to put AI agents on onchain financial rails.
🟪 Traders pushed $405 million through Injective native DEXs over the past 7 days, lifting cumulative volume to $84.3 billion.
🟪 The Injective Trench Treasury has sent all $INJ holder rewards earned from our $NINJACAT position on StonkFun to the @NinjaCatSF core contributors.
The won is coming onchain, and the second Injective Stockdrop kicks off this week. Keep your eyes peeled for brand new upcoming releases on $INJ
🌱 @sproutsomefun is giving away 500 $INJ. Launch an INJ Reward Token and your holders earn INJ on every trade.
- First 3 to graduate: 50 INJ each
- Top 3 on Oct 28: 150/100/50 INJ
- Top SPROUT burner: 50 INJ
Don’t just watch the garden grow, plant in it.
Unbelievable.
Injective holds $1.06B of tokenized real estate, 67.54% of the entire $1.57B market and more than 26 times Ethereum's $39.34M.
All of it is Pineapple Financial's mortgage records.
@injective
ICMYI: This month, Injective CEO @ericinjective met with officials from the White House, SEC and CFTC in Washington, joined by our General Counsel, Head of Policy and Head of Research.
Injective has spent years building the regulatory foundation to bring tokenization and onchain finance into the U.S. financial system.
That work is already translating into tangible milestones:
→ Injective Institutional Services is an SEC-registered transfer agent, providing regulated ownership recordkeeping services for tokenized securities.
→ INJ futures are listed on CFTC-regulated U.S. markets, connecting Injective to regulated financial infrastructure.
→ Injective is developing institutional-grade infrastructure to bring tokenized stocks, funds and real-world assets onchain.
→ Our legal and policy teams continue engaging directly with U.S. lawmakers and regulators to help shape the future of digital asset regulation.
While much of the industry is only beginning to navigate the American regulatory landscape, $INJ has been laying the groundwork for years.
The next era of finance will be built onchain, and Injective is positioning itself to help lead that transformation in America. Join the journey with us.
$INJ below $8 again.
Might be worth paying attention if you're here for the long term run.
Would be interesting to see where we're at when $INJ gets back to double digits 🥷