xChain Monthly — December

Welcome to the xChain Monthly, Wormhole’s monthly update about everything xChain.

It’s hard to believe, but 2022 is already over! Let’s have a look at the latest updates, news, and achievements in the Wormhole ecosystem:

🛡️ Security

⚬ Take some time to read through our comprehensive “Wormhole Security Program — End-of-Year Update”: Here’s the blog post and Twitter thread.

⛓️ New Chains

⚬ We teased a new chain — did you solve the puzzle?

⚬ Of course, it was Injective that was added to the Wormhole network!

⚬ And here’s Josh, taking 60 seconds to show you why Injective is so cool.

⚬ Plus, we joined Injective’s Twitter Space to chat about what it means for the DeFi-focused L1 to go xChain.

🤝 Powered by Wormhole

⚬ Our Moonbeam frens wrote an awesome, in-depth blog post about Cross-Chain Connected Contracts with Wormhole’s Relayer Engine.

⚬ Following the recent passage of MIP-11, the Moonbeam community can now enjoy incentives for supplying wormhole-wrapped WBTC, ETH, and USDC on Moonwell.

⚬ We’re super excited to welcome Hashflow to the Wormhole ecosystem!

⚬ …and took 60 seconds to tell you all about the integration!

⚬ Later that week, @KanavKariya, President at Jump Crypto & @shadddowfax, strategic partnerships at Jump Crypto, joined Hashflow for a Twitter Space to talk xChain, DeFi, and building with Wormhole!

⚬ We saw Punks being wormholed to Solana…

⚬ …but @hgesol did not stop at Punks: A real Beeple found its way to Solana!

⚬ We’re really looking forward to Bonfida using Wormhole to bring SNS (Solana Name Service) cross-chain.

💻 Building

⚬ Wormhole contributors are busier than ever — here are the Wormhole GitHub stats for November and December.

⚬ @nsuri_ sat down with @imperator_co for their “Fast & Crypto” show to chat about why Wormhole chose Cosmos for building Wormchain — the purpose-built blockchain to house infra for the Guardian network & entire Wormhole platform!

⚬ @spacemandev gave a workshop together with @movedevs & @EvernewCapital to teach how to build xDapps and about the technicalities of xChain development using Move, Solidity, & Rust!

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Community

⚬ Great news! PancakeSwap now supports Wormhole assets on Aptos!

⚬ @decentradev, contributor to Wormhole, joined the folks at @lifiprotocol to dive deep into arbitrary messaging & Wormhole’s design principles.

⚬ Not interested in listening? No worries, we found some notes for that Lifi Protocol Space!

🪄 Rando

⚬ OT: While Wormhole devs are pushing the boundaries of xChain, physicists push the boundaries of space-time.

⚬ Did you know that we had over 150,000 Wormhole SDK downloads in 2022? See for yourself!

⚬ We just found out that in 2022 over 150,000 messages were sent on our Discord server! …but that’s nothing compared to the 139,000,000 messages sent through Wormhole!