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⏪ It’s time to go behind the scenes of #Collabathon2024 with our official recap video. 📹 Check out how our all-star team came together to build Helios Connect in only 10 days, with key insights about this first-of-its-kind event. 🛠️ Built better, together! 👀👇🏼

✅ Stablecoins ✅ Payments ✅ AI Agents ✅ RWAs Injective has it all. And it’s going to accelerate like never before to bring forth the greatest onchain financial infrastructure in history. Wait and see as it all comes together⏳

This past week, Injective became home to the world's largest regulated digital dollar. ICYMI, the first U.S.-regulated $INJ futures launched, and a Microsoft-backed developer program for AI and crypto in Asia. The financial system is rebuilding itself onchain at full speed. Below are some of the top developments that happened on Injective from the past week 👇️ 🟪 Native @USDC and CCTP are officially live on Injective mainnet, plugging the fastest blockchain built for finance into $77B in stablecoin liquidity: x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 The first U.S. CFTC-regulated $INJ futures are officially live on @Bitnomial, with @krakenfx scooping up Bitnomial in a $550M acquisition and putting $INJ inside the same stack institutional desks already use: x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 Together with @Microsoft, Injective launches the Nova Program at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival, opening Azure credits, grants, and incubation to AI and crypto devs across Asia: x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 The new home for USDC on Injective is officially live, with sub-second finality, near-zero gas, markets, asset migration, docs, and a faucet all in one place: x.com/injective/stat… 📊 Key Stats 🟪 The latest $INJ Community BuyBack worth $196K filled in under 10 minutes with the most participants ever: x.com/injective/stat… 🌐 Ecosystem News 🟪 @SchwabNetwork hosts @ericinjective and @wavedigital_'s David Siemer to break down @Coinbase's latest earnings and the outlook for $COIN, $BTC, and crypto markets: x.com/SchwabNetwork/… 🟪 @IBDinvestors features @ericinjective on how agentic AI is rebuilding finance, with Injective as the place it's happening today: x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 At @Consensus2026, @Bitnomial President Michael Dunn and @CanaryFunds CEO Steven McClurg point to $INJ as one of the only digital assets with U.S.-regulated futures already live and ETFs on the way: x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 @CattyETHcrypto names Injective in the top 10 networks by revenue over the past 30 days, with real onchain trading driving the numbers: x.com/CattyETHcrypto… Onchain finance is no longer arriving. It's already here, and it lives on Injective. 🥷

Injective is one of the fastest blockchains ever built. And this year we are going to undergo major technical infrastructure upgrades to become faster than ever before. Real-time speeds across stablecoins, payments, tokenization and agentic finance. Loading ⏳

🏛️ @VaporRepublic SFT holders! 🔥 May’s $EGLD staking rewards are on the way — and we’re keeping the heat on. 📸 Snapshot is at 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 7th May, with rewards landing in your @MultiversX wallets the following day (Friday 8th)! 🔐 Don’t miss your spot.

The latest Injective mainnet upgrade is now live! This brings you the most performant chain to market with advanced onchain financial modules, new stablecoin rails for the real world economy and hyper efficient token buybacks. Much more soon.....

Regulated $INJ futures are officially live in the United States. $INJ now trades alongside $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, and $XRP with a CFTC-regulated derivatives market. The six-month runway to a potential spot $INJ ETF starts now. ⏳️ Below are some of the top developments that happened on Injective from the past week ⤵️ 🟪 The first U.S. regulated $INJ futures are officially live on @Bitnomial, a CFTC-regulated exchange. Retail access follows through Bitnomial's Botanical platform. x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 Kraken parent Payward officially announced a $500M acquisition of @Bitnomial. Regulated $INJ futures now sit inside @krakenfx's CFTC-licensed derivatives stack. x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 The @Bitnomial listing officially starts the six-month clock to spot $INJ ETF eligibility. @CanaryCapital has already filed an S-1 for a staked $INJ ETF with the Cboe. x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 Next Finance Tech, a Goldman Sachs-founded blockchain infrastructure firm backed by NASDAQ-listed Coincheck Group, officially joined the Injective validator set. One of Japan's largest web3 infrastructure providers now helps secure the network. x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 Together with @SiloFinance, risk-isolated credit markets are officially live on Injective. Each pair has its own risk parameters, oracle, and liquidation engine. The yINJ/wINJ market is first. x.com/injective/stat… 🟪 Injective's @AndKrypto spoke at BuidlAsia Seoul alongside Korean National Assembly Member Junseok Lee on institutional blockchain adoption. NH Investment Securities and Hanwha Asset Management were in the room. x.com/injective/stat… 📊 Key Stats 🟪 The April $INJ Community BuyBack removed 51K $INJ from circulation, a 4% increase over March's burn. x.com/TokenRelations… 🌐 Ecosystem News 🟪 @HelixMarkets opened an OLP campaign on Injective with 30,000 $INJ in rewards and $4.8M+ in active liquidity. x.com/HelixMarkets/s… 🟪 @hydro_fi introduced $yINJ, Injective's first MultiVM-powered yield-bearing LST. First launch partner is @SiloFinance v3 Vault. x.com/hydro_fi/statu… Regulated $INJ futures are live. The six-month countdown is on. 🥷

NOW: CFTC Regulated $INJ Futures in the U.S. 🇺🇸 UP NEXT: $INJ ETF in the U.S ⏳

Injective has successfully upgraded all of its infrastructure to enable the seamless deployment of $USDC Testnet ✅ Mainnet Upgrade Soon™

AI agents on Injective can now trade perps, bridge assets, manage wallets, and deploy contracts. The new Injective AI Toolkit ships with MCP servers, seven modular agent skills, and works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more. Open source. Ready to build.

🚨 Injective makes history with over 7,000,000 $INJ burned all-time 🚨 The Community BuyBack is the only deflationary mechanism engineered to horizontally scale with ecosystem growth, leveraging dApp-generated revenue to burn INJ while rewarding loyal ninjas. Accelerate.

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USDC is coming soon to @injective! 🥷 → Gain access to the world’s largest regulated stablecoin → Use USDC as a core trading and collateral asset across Injective’s onchain finance ecosystem

The new Injective Mainnet Upgrade is officially live! This upgrade will deliver optimizations across Injective's chain scalability, the proprietary MultiVM infrastructure and novel onchain agentic tools. Get ready to experience an entirely new Injective.

The derivatives market is worth $600T+. Less than 0.1% lives onchain. Injective was built from day one to change that, with native orderbook infra, near-zero fees, and sub-second block times. Slowly, then all at once.

Pineapple Financial (NYSE: PAPL) is accelerating its $INJ acquisitions. Today, they announced additional INJ accumulated from the open market as they continue to expand their Injective first treasury strategy in the public equity markets.

Denver Art Museum. Builders. Real conversations. Today’s FP Block side event with @GenzioCo at @EthereumDenver delivered exactly what we wanted: ✅ Direct dialogue ✅ No noise ✅ Production-level conversations Huge thanks to: @arno39 @Dune @ashlan_ahmed @getaxal @CryptoMom2Show from @bli_tools George Loukovitis @dedaub @seunlanlege @hyperbridge @alex_mirran @Gradient_HQ And everyone who showed up ready to talk about trust, architecture, and real deployment. More conversations ahead.

Still flowing over here 🌊

2,796,906,507 on chain transactions ✅ 2.8 Billion transactions on Injective by this weekend⏳ Injective has officially entered the top 10 list for most active chains in crypto.

Injective is in Davos for the World Economic Forum, working to advance landmark legislation that pushes onchain finance forward. Working alongside global leaders to make things happen.

IIP-617, the $INJ Supply Squeeze, a new monetary framework for @injective has been approved by the community. The new tokenomics model is engineered for: ✅ Accelerated Supply Contraction ✅ Strengthened Deflationary Design ✅ Improved Value Alignment Let's go, ninjas! 🥷