Can I have 10 minutes of your time…
A few days ago, @holacreq and I took to the streets to do what we do best, Yap XION.
We went to a campus, talked to a couple of students, and broke down what @burnt_xion is building, making crypto simple, accessible, and actually fun.
We introduced them to some projects building on XION
• @earnos_io
• @Blaze_Swap
Plus, we introduced them to earning opportunities across the XION ecosystem
I even used part of my Kaito rewards to get them started hands-on with @BlockX_Fun helping them create meta accounts, play around, and really experience XION in action.
We compiled hours of work into a 10-minute video so you can see it all for yourself. Check it out 👇
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5 years of @injective mainnet 🥷
year five, month by month:
nov '25 → native EVM
jan → $INJ issuance lowered to 2.2–4.4%
feb → MCP server for AI agents
apr → first US-regulated $INJ futures
may → native USDC
jun → vulcan upgrade
jul → $INJ on robinhood + joined the x402 foundation
aug → official SEC transfer agent (RWA rails)
sep → $INJ live on solana, tradable on fomo
oct → trench treasury, SICI + onchain options (testnet)
nov '26 → institutional rail + $INJC ETF on nasdaq
$12.86B traded onchain along the way.
year six starts now.
🐤 Meet $INJC: The Canary Staked INJ ETF.
Designed to provide exposure to INJ, INJC gives investors access through a registered ETF structure.
Learn more: https://t.co/JDZzCF6HfS 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.
“When we founded Injective eight years ago, we had a vision of bringing the world’s financial markets onchain.”
Last week, @ericinjective rang the @NasdaqExchange opening bell to celebrate $INJC, the Canary Staked INJ ETF.
Watch his full opening remarks.
🔥BREAKING: $INJ has officially been selected to be a part of @RobinhoodApp’s crypto trading sweepstakes, running now through November 22.
Robinhood has 28.6 million funded customers. Eligible users can enter to win INJ right in the app.
The future of finance just turned 5 🎉
Everything leading to this point has been years in the making
→ MiCA whitepaper published, opening a path to regulated access across Europe.
→ First regulated injective-protocol:native futures in the US.
→ Asia’s first regulated INJ investment fund.
→ SEC registration as an official transfer agent.
→ Over $1B in mortgage records tokenized on Injective.
→ And now, the first U.S. staked $INJ ETF, live on Nasdaq
And lots more
The blockchain built for finance is aging like fine wine
Happy 5 years, @injective, it can only get better from here
Five years ago, Injective produced its first block.
Five years later, the first U.S. ETF for $INJ launched on Nasdaq and some of the world's largest institutions onboarded to Injective.
Year 5 was our most transformative year yet with much more on the horizon.
Here are just some of our biggest milestones ⤵️
🏛️ INJ Enters Global Financial Markets
• First U.S. Staked $INJ ETF launched on Nasdaq
• First regulated U.S. futures for $INJ
• Asia's first regulated INJ investment fund launched
• MiCA regulatory milestone expanded access across Europe
• @RobinhoodApp, @Revolut and @BinanceUS listed $INJ
• Native $INJ expanded to @solana
🏦 Global Institutions Go Onchain with Injective
• $1 Billion+ in mortgage records tokenized onchain by publicly listed company Pentiv on Injective
• Global giants POSCO International and LG CNS partnered to tokenize real world trade receivables
• Injective became the first L1 to become an SEC registered transfer agent which enables us to bring regulated tokenized assets to market
• Injective Institutional Rail introduced to connect banks directly to blockchain infrastructure
• Injective Mint launched in beta to enable compliant RWA issuance without code
• @Bitwise, @nansen_ai and Gulf Labs joined the Injective validator ecosystem
🌎 Injective Powers Global Financial Infrastructure
• Native USDC launched with @circle
• Injective is set to be the canonical stablecoin standard across more than 20 chains
• Injective set to tokenized the Korean won to bring bank backed Korean won stablecoins onchain
📈 Onchain Markets Reach New Heights
• Over $12 billion in annual trading volume
• $2.5 billion in peak monthly trading volume across Injective DEXs
• Tokenized stocks broke monthly volume records four consecutive months
• Native EVM launched with 30+ applications and integrations on day one, unlocking the next era of MultiVM
• @chainlink Data Streams integrated for real time financial market data
• Injective Options introduced on testnet
• New perpetual markets introduced for AI compute, including NVIDIA GPU rental prices
🔥 The $INJ Economy Grows Stronger
• Over 7.29 MILLION $INJ permanently burned
• 517,692 $INJ burned through the Community BuyBack program
• Record 58.8 million $INJ staked
• Stockdrop launched to bring tokenized stock rewards to BuyBack participants
🤖 Unlocking the AI Economy
• AI agents can autonomously trade perpetuals using natural language
• Onchain agent identities enable autonomous participation and trading revenue sharing
• Injective chosen to join the Linux x402 Foundation
• x402 enables AI agents to make USDC payments in approximately 600 milliseconds
• New infrastructure introduced to power the next generation of autonomous financial applications
🚀 The Biggest Milestones Are Still Ahead
And we're only getting started.
• $10 billion+ in real world assets targeted to come onchain
• CypherOS mainnet bringing native privacy to Injective
• $100M+ in USDC issuance set to occur on $INJ
• Quantum resistant security in the works for Injective
• Institutional Rail expanding to connect more banks and global financial institutions
• New regulated investment products bringing $INJ to more users worldwide
• Entirely new financial markets, tokenized assets, institutions and AI applications launching on Injective
Five years ago, Injective started with a simple but ambitious vision: rebuild the global financial system onchain and make financial markets accessible to everyone.
Today, that vision is becoming a reality.
None of this would have been possible without the incredible builders, validators, institutional partners, stakers and millions of ninjas who believed in us along the way.
Thank you for five extraordinary years.
We spent the first five years building the foundation for a new global financial system. The next five will be about bringing that vision to billions worldwide.
The best days for Injective are yet to come. Lock $inJ