ChainCatcher news, the DeFi platform Infinex has announced that it has chosen Wormhole as its primary multi-chain infrastructure provider. Wormhole's interoperability platform connects over 30 blockchains, while Infinex's platform currently supports 6 blockchains: Ethereum, Polygon, Base, Optimism, Arbitrum, and Solana.The platform recently raised $65.3 million through the sale of "Patron NFTs," selling a total of 41,252 NFTs, with buyers including retail investors, Solana Ventures, Breyer Capital, as well as industry figures like Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Aave founder Stani Kulechov.Infinex was founded by Synthetix founder Kain Warwick, aiming to simplify the use of multi-chain DeFi protocols and eliminate the complexities of managing multiple wallets and paying gas fees, with its TVL exceeding $125 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Upbit will launch the Wormhole (W) KRW, BTC, and USDT markets, expected to go live on October 2 at 19:00 (Korean time).

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Wormhole announced that the DeFi protocol Sky (formerly MakerDAO) is using Wormhole's NTT (Native Token Transfer) framework to expand SKY, USDS, and sUSDS into native multi-chain tokens that can be used on Ethereum and Solana, with more expansions to come.

ChainCatcher news, at the Solana Breakpoint conference, Securitize co-founder and CEO Carlos Domingo announced a partnership with Wormhole to achieve interoperability of tokenized assets, selecting Wormhole as the official interoperability provider for all its current and future tokenized assets.

According to ChainCatcher news, the integration of Snax Chain with the Wormhole ecosystem adds cross-chain messaging and oracle services to Snax Chain, ensuring it can seamlessly integrate networks with existing deployments, facilitating smooth governance processes in a multi-chain world. Wormhole will serve as a standard bridge and provide a controlled environment for Synthetix governance.It is reported that Snax Chain is an L2 application chain specifically designed to enhance the governance operations of Synthetix, one of the leading DeFi platforms in the crypto space. Snax Chain is built on top of the OP Stack, aiming to improve the security, decentralization, and efficiency of Synthetix governance. The mainnet of Snax Chain will launch on September 15 and will receive direct support from Wormhole.

ChainCatcher news, Renzo Protocol announces the launch of its governance token REZ on Solana to enhance its influence in the blockchain ecosystem. The REZ on Solana will maintain a 1:1 peg with the REZ on Ethereum, and this token will comply with Solana's token standards, making it compatible with the decentralized finance ecosystem of the blockchain.REZ was initially deployed on Ethereum and will be transferred to Solana using the Wormhole framework. The Guardian network of the multi-chain protocol utilizes secure cross-chain proofs to ensure seamless token transfers between Ethereum and Solana.

ChainCatcher news, Wormhole's official release platform development roadmap plans to introduce significant UX/UI improvements and a series of new products in Wormhole Era3, including native Swap, fast transfers, more native token swap options, as well as enhanced Portal, Wormhole Connect, and TypeScript SDK.In addition, Wormhole has also revealed that it will launch the first multi-chain governance solution MultiGov in 2024 - 2025, launch Wormhole DAO, and conduct ZK platform upgrades, providing ZK light clients for Ethereum, Near, Sui, Aptos, and Cosmo, as well as launching community incentive programs.

ChainCatcher news, according to scopescan monitoring, a whale address starting with 0x3dfe withdrew 2.5 million RNDR (approximately 15 million USD) from OKX today and sent it all to the Wormhole Bridge.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Wormhole has announced the launch of Wormhole Governor V2: The Flow Canceling Governor to upgrade its multi-chain experience. This is a new mechanism focused on net flow that reduces latency and supports more transactions while maintaining security. The mechanism has the following features:Increases transfer speed by determining net flow;Supports more transactions without increasing Governor restrictions;Lower risk and better vulnerability protection.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, digital asset custody provider BitGo has announced support for Wormhole's native ERC-20 governance token W. Users can now custody W in hot wallets, custody wallets, and self-managed cold wallets.

ChainCatcher news, Wormhole announced that its ecosystem plan includes three components: Wormhole Accelerator, Cross-Chain Ecosystem Fund, and xGrant Program. Among them, Borderless Capital launched a $50 million cross-chain ecosystem fund to develop the next generation of Web3 applications. The Wormhole Accelerator Base Camp is a 12-week accelerator program aimed at projects, protocols, or startups looking to leverage Wormhole for development. This program is operated by Outlier Ventures, and participating teams can receive funding of up to $200,000. The Wormhole xGrant is open for applications from developers or teams.Additionally, the Web3 asset data platform RootData shows that Wormhole is a decentralized universal messaging protocol that enables developers and users of cross-chain applications to leverage the advantages of multiple ecosystems.

ChainCatcher news, Wormhole announced that W can now be seamlessly transferred between Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base using Wormhole's native token transfer (NTT), without liquidity fragmentation or liquidity pool issues.At the same time, W remains an SPL token on Solana and an ERC20 token on EVM chains. W achieves native multi-chain functionality, completing the second phase of the W launch roadmap.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Wormhole Foundation has granted funding to Supranational for Wormhole ZK hardware acceleration contributors.It is reported that Supranational designs and develops hardware-accelerated cryptography for verifiable and confidential computing. The team has decades of experience in algorithm optimization, with work spanning CPU, GPU, FPGA, and ASIC computing platforms.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the BOME TOP1 holder sundayfunday.sol has cross-chained 9 million BOME to the Ethereum network via Wormhole since yesterday, approximately worth $83,000.In addition, the receiving address created a smart contract for ERC721 and ERC1155 interactions 10 hours ago and has been interacting frequently, seemingly for testing purposes, with the specific use currently unknown.

ChainCatcher news, the cross-chain interoperability platform Wormhole announced on social media that the non-custodial liquid staking protocol ether.fi is using Wormhole's Native Token Transfer (NTT) framework to make ETHFI a native multi-chain.

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 social protocol beoble announced on social media that it will join the Wormhole ecosystem.ChainCatcher previously reported that according to official news, the Web3 social protocol beoble announced the upcoming release of beoble 2.0, which will also reveal the utility details of the BBL token. It is reported that the new version will support multiple chains, including Bitcoin, Solana, Aptos, and Sui Network, and will also integrate the chat protocol (infrastructure).

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Arkham has reached a partnership with Wormhole. Arkham will use Wormhole's messaging protocol to enable token transfers for Arkham Intel Exchange, starting with transfers between Ethereum and Solana.It is reported that Arkham address labels will be directly integrated into the Wormhole ecosystem browser Wormholescan, providing better transaction visibility and analysis for Arkham and Wormholescan users.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Ethereum re-staking protocol Puffer Finance has partnered with Wormhole to achieve multi-chain interoperability for pufETH. More progress and details will be announced soon.