Interoperability is the phrase of the day and lots of blockchains have caught on to the pattern. In October and November, the Wormhole protocol was particularly energetic, connecting chains and making it potential for tokens and NFTs to journey by way of numerous crypto ecosystems.
After weeks of exercise and new bulletins, Wormhole launched its first monthly recap to shed extra mild on the “high-value blockchains”, it supported.
On the similar time, Wormhole additionally revealed which blockchain would be a part of its rising assortment.
Coming by way of
At the moment supporting Solana, Ethereum, Binance Sensible Chain, and Terra, the Wormhole protocol has enabled customers to hold out advanced DeFi actions that wouldn’t have been potential even a yr in the past.
With regard to NFT bridges and stats, Wormhole revealed,
“As of now, customers have wormholed greater than 250 NFTs between Ethereum, Solana and BSC, together with the first ever(wrapped) Cryptopunk bridged to Solana!”
Moreover, the recap noted that on the finish of October, the protocol had seen greater than $500 million in whole worth locked [TVL]. Additional, Terra’s UST stablecoin was the top-ranking asset.

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Lastly, on the finish of its recap, Wormhole announced the entry of a brand new chain. The report revealed,
“Wormhole’s mission is to energy interoperability between excessive valued blockchains. We’re thrilled to be launching assist for Polygon subsequent. “
🙌 Out of the Wormhole #1 – our first month-to-month recap is out!
TL;DR
* @terra_money token bridge launched
* BSC token & NFT bridge launched
* $540M+ TVL
* ~1200 messages/day
* 250+ NFTs wormholed
* Wormhole explorer launched
* New chain coming quickly 👀 https://t.co/4vggeE3rbw— Wormhole (@wormholecrypto) November 4, 2021
Chained collectively
Coming to messages and inter-chain communication, Wormhole’s recap announced that greater than 12,000 messages have been despatched between the 4 supported chains within the final month.

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Solana and Ethereum, the oldest blockchains within the Wormhole ecosystem, noticed essentially the most exercise prior to now 30 days. Nevertheless, Binance Sensible Chain’s exercise ranges have been near that of Ethereum.
Attending to know Polygon
At press time, Polygon [MATIC] was the nineteenth greatest blockchain by market cap. Its price was $1.91 and the alt coin has been seeing bullish momentum since round mid-October.
What’s extra, Bitwise later launched a Polygon fund. The corporate said,
“Many are engaged on Ethereum opponents to resolve this, however Polygon has seen breakthrough traction with a uniquely complementary answer that reinforces Ethereum’s velocity and effectivity.”

Supply: Polygonscan
On 5 November, there have been 275,512 active addresses on Polygon.