LI.FI Acquires Catalyst 💥
Last Week In The Multi-Chain Ecosystem (10 - 16 Feb '25)
Welcome to the interop/acc newsletter, a weekly curation of the major updates and announcements from the industry’s leading interop protocols and ecosystems.
Interop Protocols
1) LI.FI acquires Catalyst — to accelerate the future of intents and scale aggregation.
2) LayerZero powers Legacy Mesh — the link between USDT deployments and wider USDT0 ecosystem.
3) LayerZero deploys endpoint on TON, also contributes to rewriting their native programming language FunC with the FunCC++ framework.
4) Introducing The IVM — SEDA’s Flagship Interoperability Verification Module.
5) Solayer partners with Mayan and Wormhole for new $sUSD cross-chain deposit flow.
6) Decent expands to new chains (Berachain, Abstract, etc.), connected by Hyperlane.
Ecosystem Updates
1) Unichain mainnet is live.
2) Story mainnet is live, with Stargate Hydra for USDC, USDT and WETH transfers.
3) Aave launches GHO on Base, with bridging powered by Chainlink CCIP.
4) Tether selects Arbitrum as the infrastructure provider for its new stablecoin, USDT0.
5) Arbitrum launches BoLD (Bounded Liquidity Delay), delivering permissionless validation
Interesting Reads
1) Stargate Hydra.
2) jupnet: aggregate everything
4) What interop can learn from Visa and SWIFT.
6) Pod: Inside the LI.FI x Catalyst Deal ft Jim
7) Livestream: Unifying Ethereum - Phase 1: Universal Intents Engine
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