Hassan Maishera
On Wednesday, the Injective team announced via X that the Injective Meridian Mainnet Upgrade is now live. Key Features of the Meridian Upgrade include:
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Institutional Real-World Asset (RWA) Issuance: Incorporates regulated token standards directly into the Injective EVM. This allows issuers to embed legally required compliance, transfer rules, and regulatory frameworks straight into the token's code rather than managing them externally.
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Native Privacy Alpha (CypherOS): Lays the groundwork for Injective's native privacy platform, CypherOS. This release kicks off alpha testing for private Request-for-Quote (RFQ) transaction flows, which protect institutional order details and sensitive trading information while accessing on-chain liquidity.
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Unified Perpetual Markets: Introduces new MultiVM capabilities, enabling asset controls to run fluidly across Injective’s native and EVM environments. EVM applications now gain atomic purchase access to Injective's core liquidity and settlement layer, simplifying the trading of tokenized stocks and equities in unified order flows.
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Resilient Market Infrastructure: Sharpens the network's risk controls, transaction signing, and oracle processing. Improved oracle prioritization and relay validation provide more dependable pricing data for tokenized derivatives and real-world assets.
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 is currently 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 $8.04, down 0.5% in the last 24 hours.
