Welcome to LI.FI’s Cross Chain Insider newsletter, a weekly curation of the major updates and announcements from the industry’s leading interop protocols and ecosystems.
Bridge Updates
1) CCTP V2 coming soon with faster-than-finality cross-chain USDC transfers.
2) LayerZero will be holding a referendum to turn on a fee switch on December 19th.
3) SilentSwap, the privacy cross-chain aggregator, is now live.
4) Binance wallet, Compass, Reveel integrate LI.FI.
5) NodeKit is bringing composability to Union.
6) LayerZero OFTs are now available on Caldera rollups.
7) Eco introduces one-click stablecoin liquidity product on Hyperlane.
Multi-Chain Ecosystem Updates
1) Skip joins the Interchain Foundation.
2) Avalanche Closes $250 Million Token Sale.
3) Circle and Binance Form Strategic Partnership to Accelerate USDC Adoption.
4) Offchain Labs discusses improvements to interoperability on Arbitrum.
5) Treasure launches as a gaming L2, with bridging powered by Hyperlane.
6) Arbitrum awards grant to Hashi for Hashi State Sharing Network (SSN).
Intents & Chain Abstraction
1) Sprinter acquires project blanc, one of the top Solvers on CoWSwap.
2) Read: Chain Abstraction in 2024: A Year in Review - by Omni, Particle, and LI.FI.
3) Pod: Unfiltered Hot Takes on Chain Abstraction ft. TABASCOweb3
4) Read: ERC-7683: Unifying Ethereum With Cross-Chain Intents
5) Read: Mental Models for Intent-Solver Systems - Part 2
6) Pod: Reimagining on-chain through Chain Abstraction and AI Agents (Vaibhav)
Interesting Reads
1) The Year Ahead for Infra 2025 (Delphi)
2) Expansion of multi-chain token standards.
3) Why We Need Both Intents And Messaging
4) Pod: How Fast Confirmations Will Improve Rollup UX
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