xChain Monthly - May

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

May 2023 was a big month for Wormhole and the entire cross-chain ecosystem! Let’s take a look at the latest updates, news, and developments:

🟪 Introducing Wormhole Connect

• We introduced Wormhole Connect: Integrate In-App Bridging in as Few as 3 Lines of Code
• Read the full announcement with all info, docs, videos, and samples here.
• Missed the Wormhole Connect announcement yesterday? Catch up in just 60 seconds.
• With Wormhole Connect, adding bridge functionality directly into any app’s UI is easier than ever before. We’re happy to see so many @SuiNetwork teams bring great cross-chain UX to their users from day 1. Keep an eye out as these teams go live in the coming days!
• "In as little as 3 lines of code" — That's how easy it is to drop cross-chain bridging directly into your dapp with Wormhole Connect.

⛓️ New Chain(s)

• …dropping soon!
• Sui mainnet is live ...and Wormhole has been supporting Sui as its canonical bridge from Day 1!
• Sui is up & running, and Wormhole, along with the Portal bridge built on top of it, has been there from Day 1: https://portalbridge.com/sui
• Sui is also part of Wormhole’s bug bounty program, offering up to $2,500,000 USDC to white hats.
• We sat down with the Sui core team, @CetusProtocol, @EthosWalletXYZ &@Turbos_finance for a “Sui Ecosystem Spotlight” livestream on Crowdcast. It can also be found on Twitter and Wormhole’s YouTube channel.
• A new chain has set sail, ready to make waves…

💎 $50M Cross-Chain Ecosystem Fund

• It's time to make building in crypto more accessible than ever before. Introducing the $50m Cross-Chain Ecosystem Fund, powered by Wormhole!
• Here is our full blog post announcing the Cross-Chain Ecosystem Fund.
• Building a dapp or infrastructure using Wormhole's cross-chain messaging protocol? Apply here!

🔝 tBTC is here

• t. Coming soon, everywhere.
• tBTC has arrived: Bitcoin is going everywhere!
• For more details, read the full announcement here.
• Twitter Spaces: We sat down with the Threshold Network to talk about Bitcoin going everywhere
• It's time to put @TheTNetwork in the hot seat for our next Discord Ecosystem AMA!
• Find the Discord AMA summary here as a Tweet, a blog post, or in the dedicated Discord channel.
• tBTC is headed somewhere new, and a flying fren is here to greet them! Can you guess where they're from?

🤝 Powered By Wormhole

• Wormhole has been selected as a new @NEARProtocol official bridge and to partner on launching the first trustless NEAR <> ETH corridor powered by ZK proofs!
• Want to learn more about NEAR and ZK proofs? Check out our blog post here.
• Drift Protocol | Powered By Wormhole Connect: Tweet and blog post
• @bonk_inu just integrated Wormhole Connect for next-level cross-chain bonking
• Cetus integrated Wormhole Connect
• Flame Protocol integrated Wormhole Connect
• Kriya DEX integrated Wormhole Connect
• Morphis integrated Wormhole Connect
• Lync integrated Wormhole Connect
• Turbos integrated Wormhole Connect
• Francium integrated Wormhole Connect
• Scallop integrated Wormhole Connect
• Unique.vc integrated Wormhole
• Nightly integrated Wormhole Connect
• Martian integrated Wormhole Connect
• KING made their token an xAsset
• OmniBTC integrated Wormhole Connect
• BlueMove has integrated Wormhole Connect
• Suiswap has integrated Wormhole Connect
• Check out @nexa_network's upcoming Chain-Agnostic Token (CAT) standard
• @bonfida's Solana Name Service (SNS) turns your Solana public key into human-readable .sol addresses. And with Wormhole, .sol domains can go cross-chain.

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Community

• No, no, no… we definitely don't have FOMO about Coos!
• Summer is just around the corner… which means it's almost time for the @encodeclub Summer Hackathon & Bootcamp, sponsored by the @solanafndn.

🦄 Cross-Chain Deployment Proposals

• It’s official, @Uniswap v3 is coming to @Polkadot. Uni holders voted to launch on @MoonbeamNetwork, leveraging Wormhole as the cross-chain messaging protocol for token transfers and cross-chain governance with the Ethereum mainnet.

💻 Building

• We’re building in the open. Always. Here you can find April's Github stats.
• Wormhole Foundation’s @danreecer_ was live on @CoinDesk TV, discussing developing Wormhole, the @TheTNetwork tBTC integration, and more.

🪄 Rando

• May the 4th be with you, always!

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