Welcome to the Movement (powered by Move Industries) Overview, a monthly deep dive into the Movement ecosystem that explores the network’s latest developments, metrics and more. All in one place.
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Movement Metrics
Daily transactions: 15.9K (-37.65%)
Network transactions per second: 48 (+37.14%)
Daily active users: 3.8K (-50%)
Total Value Locked: $205M (-1.73%)
Movement stablecoin market cap: $42.47M (+0.74%)
The metrics are accurate at the time of publication. The percentage change is over a 30-day period.
What Caught Our Eye This Month
Movement Network completed an operating transition that makes Move Industries its primary service provider, responsible for building, operating, and growing the network, while the Foundation remains the independent steward.
Move Alliance introduced an ecosystem incentive model where ten ecosystem projects have already committed 50-100% of its protocol revenue to buying back MOVE tokens. Initial members include: Joule, Canopy, Matrix, Meridian, Mosaic, Moveposition, Yuzu, Echelon, LayerBank, and DoubleUp.
Movement Monthly Spotlight
Movement completed the migration of its blockchain, M1, to be a layer-1 (L1) network from a layer-2 (L2).
For most cases, L2s depend on external chains they’re built on for settlement and typically use centralized sequencers to order transactions. These dependencies can limit how networks control execution, upgrades and security assumptions.
In contrast, L1s controls its own consensus and execution environment. Movement’s M1, by design, is to remove reliance on centralized sequencers and external settlement layers. This can pave the way for greater flexibility such as setting its own performance and governance parameters.
The launch also introduced native staking for the MOVE token. Only unlocked tokens are eligible to earn staking rewards. Tokens that are locked, including those held by the team, cannot be staked, concentrating validator incentives among circulating token holders. At the time of writing, there are 403.67 million MOVE tokens staked on the network.
As a standalone L1, M1 now serves as the base layer for the Movement ecosystem. The network plans to support application-specific L2s that settle back to M1, using it as a shared execution and settlement layer.
What’s Move-ing the Ecosystem
Movement and KAST launched a dual-rewards crypto payments program so users can earn 4% cashback in MOVE tokens, in addition to KAST Points.
LayerBank launched its ULAB token to the Movement network on Dec. 16
Joule Finance integrated with Movement to provide liquidity for DeFi payment protocols and gaming apps for the network
Tapping into the Community
Want to dive deeper into the Mezo ecosystem?
Partheon DAO, a community-driven decentralized autonomous organized for the Movement network, released a guide for how its leaderboard ranks work
Rahat Chowdurry, head of developer relations at Move Industries, livestreamed himself creating an Etherscan clone for the Move network
In 2025, Mosaic’s Movement-powered DEX aggregator facilitated $300M in trading volume, processed 2.7M transactions, and had 25K active users
Keep Moving
Want to explore Move Industries further?
Explore Parthenon, Movement’s interactive community hub designed to boost user activity with ecosystem dApps
Earn up to 25% APR when providing liquidity for MOVE token and stablecoin pairs, using Yuzu Finance’s market maker
Catch you next month.
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