Hassan Maishera
On Tuesday, the Injective team announced via a blog post that Next Finance Tech, a Goldman Sachs-founded blockchain infrastructure company based in Tokyo, has joined Injective's active validator set.
The firm operates validator nodes and staking services for corporate clients in Japan and internationally. In May 2024, it launched Fuelco, a domestic staking platform supporting Ethereum. Since then, it has added support for Solana, Babylon, and Canton Network.
Validators stake INJ to propose blocks, validate transactions, and vote on governance proposals. Uptime and low-latency processing are non-negotiable. Next Finance Tech's experience managing validator infrastructure across major chains, such as Ethereum, makes them well-equipped for that role. Their operations team, trained at Goldman Sachs, adds another level of institutional reliability to Injective's validator set, which already includes Binance and Google Cloud.
Injective is the first and only blockchain built for finance. It is an open, interoperable layer-one blockchain powering next-generation finance applications, including DeFi, RWAs, AI, decentralized exchanges, prediction markets, lending protocols, and more.
Injective uniquely provides powerful core financial infrastructure primitives that applications can leverage, including a fully decentralized MEV-resistant on-chain orderbook. Developers can utilize Injective’s plug-and-play modules to rapidly deploy applications that could take years on other chains. Injective is also one of the most interoperable L1s ever created which is fully compatible with major chains such as Ethereum and Solana.
Injective also provides a next-generation, highly interoperable smart contract platform based on Wasm 2.0, with advanced interchain capabilities. Injective utilizes a custom implementation of the Tendermint Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, providing instant transaction finality with lightning speed – sub second block times (0.6s) while sustaining enormous throughput (25,000+ TPS). Injective currently is also leading new forms of innovation across a number of verticals such as its pioneering work to integrate artificial intelligence with on-chain finance.
Injective has achieved a historic milestone of over 1 billion transactions to date with one of the fastest chains built to date. The Injective ecosystem includes 100+ projects and over 500,000 community members globally. Injective was originally incubated by Binance and is also backed by a group of prominent investors including Pantera Capital, Jump Crypto, and Mark Cuban.
Injective is an open, interoperable layer-one blockchain for building powerful DeFi applications. Injective uniquely provides plug-and-play financial infrastructure primitives, such as a high-performance on-chain decentralized exchange infrastructure, decentralized bridges, oracles, and a composable smart contract layer with CosmWasm. INJ is trading at $3.02, up 4.2% in the last 24 hours.
