Recently, Injective made a big move—their own EVM mainnet has gone live. This may seem quite technical, but in simple terms, it has paved a highway for developers. Previously, developing on Injective was like driving a sports car on a rugged mountain road; now it has directly switched to a flat racetrack. Suddenly, over 40 DeFi applications and infrastructure teams have rushed in to get started, and the gameplay of on-chain finance may be completely refreshed.
The more ruthless thing is that a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Pineapple Financial, directly invested 100 million USD to establish a digital asset treasury specifically for purchasing INJ. This is not a small matter; it signifies that Wall Street's regular army is starting to enter the market with real money. They are continuously buying INJ from the open market, providing not only underlying purchasing power for the assets but also acting as a signal: an institutional-level financial framework is quietly connecting with this blockchain.
Moreover, I've heard that the US Injective ETF is about to be launched. Once it becomes a reality, ordinary investors won't need to understand private keys or wallets, they can directly buy exposure to INJ in their traditional stock accounts. Once this door opens, blockchain assets will step from the 'geek circle' into the view of 'mass finance.' Imagine that your colleagues have allocated some INJ in their retirement accounts, just as naturally as buying Apple stock; that scene may not be far from us.
But Injective's ambitions go beyond crypto native assets. They are bringing traditional 'antiques' like stocks, gold, and foreign exchange onto the blockchain one by one. Recently, we've already seen assets like Nvidia stock running on it. This is equivalent to replicating a miniature version of Wall Street on the blockchain, and it's available 24/7, accessible globally. For many investors who previously had no access to international markets, this is simply opening the door to a new world.
If you want to feel this wave, platforms like Binance are indeed the simplest entry point. After all, the complete ecosystem and liquidity can lower the threshold for participation to a minimum.
In the end, this series of moves by Injective—lowering development thresholds with the new EVM, attracting institutional treasuries, pushing traditional assets onto the chain, preparing compliant ETFs—are all doing the same thing: bridging the gap between traditional finance and on-chain finance. It is not merely copying the old system but attempting to build a more efficient and open parallel financial system using the composability and globalization features of blockchain. When it's possible to not only trade Bitcoin on-chain but also seamlessly trade Tesla stock and gold, perhaps the curtain of a new era will truly be raised.
All of this may come faster than we imagine.
