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Injective By The Numbers
$INJ price: $2.90 (-14.7%)
Token market cap: $289.8M (-14.9%)
Total $INJ staked: 56.8M (+4%)
Staking APR: 6.31% (-4%)
Injective daily trading volume: $15.4M (+26.2%)
The percentages and metrics are calculated from its change over a 14-day time frame, unless noted otherwise.
Injecting The Biggest Developments
🥷 What’s happening: Stargate Finance has added support for Injective, letting users transfer assets between Injective and supported blockchains.
🥷 Why it matters: The integration allows bridged assets to be brought on to Injective as native tokens, without requiring third-party swaps.
Injective’s financial ecosystem revolves around order book-based trading, derivatives and lending products, all of which rely on sufficient capital to function.
Stargate essentially bridges supported blockchains (Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Base, to name a few), processing millions every day, so this integration enables that liquidity to flow directly into Injective.
The intention is to reduce fragmentation and simplify workflows so traders won’t have to manually bridge assets or swap between wrapped tokens to participate in Injective’s markets. Additionally, developers can incorporate wrapped Ether (wETH), a smart contract-compatible form of Ethereum (ETH), for direct use across Injective’s developer and DeFi suite.
🥷 The bigger picture: Cross-chain connectivity is increasingly important for DeFi and onchain financial markets. When blockchains operate in isolation, users face friction in accessing different financial instruments, and liquidity can be fragmented across multiple platforms. Stargate’s integration allows Injective to onboard additional assets in order to increase market depth for trading, lending and borrowing.
For developers, this creates opportunities to design financial products that can tap into high-liquidity assets like wETH directly on Injective. For traders and investors, the integration simplifies participation in markets and increases the range of accessible assets.
Expanding The Financial Ecosystem
Updates on the latest network of dApps, validators, builders and more helping Injective expand its financial use cases.
Injective has upgraded its mainnet to make changes to its exchange module and EVM tooling, as well as enhance sub-account controls, RPC support, fee routing, gas accounting and indexer stability
Injective’s CLI skill lets AI agents query chain data, send transactions, and manage keys
Injective launched MCP Server, a financial module that lets AI agents trade perpetual futures
Injective’s weekly code commitshit 439 between Feb. 23-Mar. 2, the most among all blockchains and hitting its highest level since November 2025
From The Injective Ninjas 🥷
Highlighting the builders, communities and ecosystem players within the Injective blockchain.
Paradyze has integrated with Privy, letting users sign up for its perpetual futures app using email or Discord
Korea University debuted its network validator, staking 369,809 INJ tokens on day one
Code4rena is hosting a $105K Peggy Bridge audit competition until Mar. 17 that will let security researchers review Injective’s smart contracts for its cross-chain bridge
Dive Deeper Into Injective
Want to get involved in the ecosystem?
Sign up for the Injective Summit, scheduled for July 16 in Washington D.C.
Check out the Cointelegraph Accelerator, a 12-week program offering grant funding and mentorship to ecosystem founders
Paradyze is hosting a $25K trading competition
Explore Injective’s institutional overview here
Until next time!
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