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Wormhole Use Cases＃

Cross-Chain Swaps and Liquidity Aggregation＃

Enable seamless swaps between chains with real-time liquidity routing.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

🔗 Used in: Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and liquidity aggregators
🏗️ Used by: StellaSwap

Borrowing and Lending Across Chains＃

Let users borrow assets on one chain using collateral from another.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Messaging – moves loan requests and liquidations across chains
  • Native Token Transfer – transfers collateral as native assets
  • Queries – fetches interest rates and asset prices in real-time

🔗 Used in: Lending protocols and yield platforms
🏗️ Used by: Folks Finance

Real-Time Price Feeds and Trading Strategies＃

Fetch price feeds across multiple chains for DeFi applications.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Queries – fetches price feeds from oracles and trading platforms
  • Messaging – sends signals to execute trades

🔗 Used in: Trading bots, arbitrage platforms, and oracles
🏗️ Used by: Infinex

Asset Movement Between Bitcoin and Other Chains＃

Enable direct BTC transfers without wrapped assets.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

🔗 Used in: Bitcoin DeFi and lightning network integrations
🏗️ Used by: Synonym

Decentralized Social Platforms＃

Enable seamless communication and asset transfer across decentralized social networks.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Messaging – facilitates decentralized interactions
  • Token Bridge – enables cross-chain tokenized rewards

🔗 Used in: Web3 social networks and content monetization
🏗️ Used by: Chingari

Memecoin Launchpads＃

Launch and distribute memecoins across multiple chains, enabling cross-chain fundraising and liquidity access.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Native Token Transfer – enables native asset transfers for seamless fundraising
  • Messaging – facilitates cross-chain token distribution and claim processes

🔗 Used in: Token launchpads, IDOs, and meme token ecosystems

Cross-Chain Perpetuals＃

Enable leveraged perpetual trading across chains with seamless collateral and liquidity management.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Queries – fetches real-time asset prices and manages position state across chains
  • Wormhole Settlement - for quick cross-chain token execution, providing efficient and seamless user experiences

🔗 Used in: Perpetual DEXs, trading platforms and cross-chain derivatives

Gas Abstraction＃

Allow users to pay gas fees with any token across different networks, removing friction in multichain interactions.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

🔗 Used in: Wallets, dApps, and multichain user experience improvements

Bridging Intent Library＃

Provide developers with a library of bridging intents and automation functions, enabling plug-and-play interoperability logic.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Messaging – enables predefined cross-chain actions and triggers.
  • Wormhole Settlement - provides a framework for executing user-defined bridging intents

🔗 Used in: Bridging protocols, DeFi automation, and smart contract libraries

Multichain Prediction Markets＃

Allow users to place bets, manage positions, and receive payouts seamlessly across different networks.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Queries – fetches real-time market data, tracks collateral, and manages odds across chains
  • Wormhole Settlement – automates token execution for efficient and seamless cross-chain prediction market interactions

🔗 Used in: Decentralized betting, prediction markets, and cross-chain gaming

Cross-Chain Payment Widgets＃

Allow merchants and platforms to accept payments in any token, auto-converting them into a desired asset.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

🔗 Used in: E-commerce, Web3 payments, and subscription models

Oracle Networks＃

Fetch and verify cross-chain data, enabling reliable, decentralized Oracle services for multichain applications.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Queries – fetches data from multiple chains and Oracle providers
  • Messaging – ensures tamper-proof data relay across networks

🔗 Used in: Price feeds, DeFi protocols, and smart contract automation
🏗️ Used by: Pyth

Cross-Chain Staking＃

Enable users to stake assets on one chain while earning rewards or securing networks on another.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Messaging – moves staking rewards and governance signals across chains
  • Native Token Transfer – transfers staked assets natively between networks

🔗 Used in: Liquid staking, cross-chain governance, and PoS networks
🏗️ Used by: Lido