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Injective By The Numbers
$INJ price: $5.06 (+9.52%)
Token market cap: $504.4M (+9.22%)
Total $INJ staked: 57.69M (+1.57%)
Staking APR: 12.39% (-1.27%)
Injective daily trading volume: $34.25M (+7.57%)
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: Injective ended 2025 with 1.4 billion transactions, up from 907.4 million a year ago; $30 billion in onchain central limit order book (CLOB) trading volume, $6.1 billion in tokenized real-world asset (RWA) volume, and more than 138,600 monthly active users.
The growth was backstopped by a number of product upgrades, notably the launch of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) layer, which brought in 30+ new apps and infrastructure partners giving users new avenues for capital to move in the ecosystem.
🥷 Why it matters: Economic activity on Injective was concentrated around its financial decentralized applications (dApps), spanning public equities, private markets and commodities. The diverse avenues of activity show Injective’s potential for attracting liquidity and consistent usage, necessary factors for efficient pricing and trading.
The growth in activity and user bases helps assess whether engagement is expanding across a broader set of participants. The increase observed throughout 2025 suggests a higher number of users interacting with Injective-based applications on a daily basis, indicating more consistent usage rather than short-lived spikes.
Trading volumes and daily user engagement on Injective together suggest that activity is being driven by repeated participation in its spot, derivative and tokenized asset markets.
🥷 The bigger picture: Alongside the growth in user activity and transactions driven by broader market sentiment until a few months ago, the launch of Injective’s EVM helped the network continue building towards its goal of becoming the go-to onchain financial infrastructure.
Expanding The Financial Ecosystem
Updates on the latest network of dApps, validators, builders and more helping Injective expand its financial use cases.
The monthly average of daily active users on Injective reached an all-time high in January, averaging 87.3K per day
Injective block times have become 13% faster compared to last year, falling from 726ms in January 2025 to 630 ms by January 2026
Helix now supports pre-launch futures for MegaETH’s MEGA token
Injective announced its upcoming Community BuyBack will be on January 14
Explore Injective’s institutional overview here
From The Injective Ninjas 🥷
Highlighting the builders, communities and ecosystem players within the Injective blockchain.
Paradyze launched showdown trading on its perpetuals DEX, letting traders compete against each other
ACX said it is launching a stock-based perpetual and tokenized pre-IPO trading platform on Injective
Hydro Protocol’s HDRO token supply rose to 73M, reflecting increased liquidity and liquid staking engagement
Check out the winners of Ninja Break: Chill Building Week, a coding competition hosted by Injective, Ninja Labs and Hack Quest
Dive Deeper Into Injective
Want to get involved in the ecosystem?
Find the latest job postings on Injective Labs
Check out the Cointelegraph Accelerator, a 12-week program offering grant funding and mentorship to ecosystem founders
Participate in Bantr’s $30K MultiVM ecosystem campaign
Explore Injective’s institutional overview here
Until next time!
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