Stargate expands to Injective. - Published 1 hour ago on March 5, 2026 - Hassan Maishera On Tuesday, the Injective team announced via a blog post that Stargate, the omnichain liquidity protocol built on LayerZero, has launched full support for Injective. With this support, users can now bridge assets directly to Injective from 80+ blockchains through Stargate's unified interface, and for the first time, wrapped Ether (wETH) is natively accessible within the Injective ecosystem. Stargate is the leading cross-chain liquidity layer, purpose-built to move assets across blockchains instantly and with guaranteed finality. Since its launch, the protocol has facilitated over $65 billion in total transfer volume, processing more than $1 billion per week across its network. With Stargate now supporting Injective, users across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and dozens of other networks have a direct, low-friction route into the Injective ecosystem. This matters because liquidity depth is what enables the products Injective is designed to power: orderbook-based perpetuals, structured products, and RWA markets. The most consequential asset unlocked by this integration is wETH. Wrapped Ether is one of the highest-liquidity assets in all of DeFi, and its arrival on Injective enables entirely new market structures that were not previously possible. Trading pairs denominated in wETH can now go live on Injective's native orderbook exchange. Lending and borrowing markets can be built around wETH collateral, giving users the ability to put their ETH exposure to work while remaining active across Injective's broader DeFi ecosystem. 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 $3.06, up 2.5% in the last 24 hours. Hassan Maishera Hassan is a Nigeria-based financial content creator that has invested in many different blockchain projects, including Bitcoin, Ether, Stellar Lumens, Cardano, VeChain and Solana. He currently works as a financial markets and cryptocurrency writer and has contributed to a large number of the leading FX, stock and cryptocurrency blogs in the world.

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