On January 23, 2025, the Injective 3.0 upgrade fell like a heavy hammer, igniting market enthusiasm with a community unanimous resolution that saw prices break through $26 for six consecutive days. This was no simple iteration, but a historic moment of the financial iron curtain collapsing. From its inception as a VC incubation, to forging cross-chain rails with the Cosmos SDK, integrating with Klaytn to expand the derivatives ecosystem, and collaborating with the Polygon-Fetch.ai alliance to accelerate the AI DeFi layout, every step of Injective is paving the way to break the shackles. On August 5, the founder Eric Chen's dropout legend was once again mentioned: from an initial market value of $130 million to endorsements from well-known investors like Mark Cuban, its goal has remained unchanged – to build a "truly free and fair financial system."
The iron curtain has completely shattered under the impact of the EVM dual-track architecture: on November 11, the native EVM mainnet officially launched, allowing Ethereum ecosystem dApps to directly land on this high ground, alongside the WASM-driven Cosmos ecosystem, with the fragmented iron chains that once bound liquidity breaking apart. Pre-built modules act like hammers, enabling the development of financial applications such as derivatives, RWA, and prediction markets to be accomplished in a single blow. On November 27, $39.5 million flooded into the market, burning 6.78 million INJ, as the flames of the protocol continue to forge the deflationary iron laws. On December 9, the price of INJ rebounded strongly from a low of $5.51 to $6.16, with a market capitalization stabilizing at $5.82, demonstrating strong resilience.
The climax further shattered in the breakthroughs of institutions: Pineapple Financial converted $10 million in treasury assets into INJ reserves, and after the announcement, the company's stock price surged by 100%; Canary Capital successively launched INJ trust products and staking ETF proposals, paving the way for the ecosystem to access regulatory green lights. The landing of the Republic on-chain private placement platform allows retail investors to smash open the valuation doors of star enterprises like OpenAI and Anthropic with an iron fist. On social platform X, the iron curtain of traditional finance has completely collapsed: ParadyzeFi's social trading robot spreads strategy sharing like an iron stream, with market attention soaring to 48.91%; the addition of the Aethir GPU cloud platform provides Injective with the iron wings of dAI, soaring high.
The mission of Injective is to break financial monopolies with unlicensed iron laws: an order book resistant to MEV, sub-second finality, and ultra-low fees of $0.01, witnessing this commitment with 145 million blocks of solid data. Ecological accelerators continuously recruit high-quality projects like a heavy hammer, while the InjScan browser builds a transparent iron net to protect user rights. The iron rails of prices extend into the future: market predictions suggest that the price of INJ will reach $7.32 by the end of 2025, with a potential return rate of 27.63% by 2030. In the era of Injective 3.0, the remnants of the financial iron curtain have already scattered—will the flood of freedom wash away the old fortresses of global finance? An unknown era has already begun, with suspense like sparks of new life in iron filings illuminating the path ahead.
