Understand and Leverage Injective Protocol to Trade Unlimited DeFi Markets While Harnessing Derivatives Trading [Explained]

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I’ll tell you, you are awesome. All the listeners 86 countries around the world this show has been heard. I’m excited about our journey together. Definitely share the episode with your friends that are new in crypto, want to know more maybe they’ve been in crypto for a while, or maybe they just wanted to know about a specific project. So without further to do, let’s jump into today’s episode. It’s all about Injective Protocol. So, what is Injective Protocol? Injective Protocol is a universal decentralized finance or DeFi protocol for cross chain derivative trading across many different financial products, like perpetual swaps, futures and spot trading. Injective aims to build a network that is trustless, censorship resistant, publicly verifiable, and front running resistant. The Injective chain is implemented as a Cosmos SDK module built with EVM on Tender Mint. It utilizes a Tender Mint based proof of stake to facilitate cross chain derivatives trading across Cosmos, Ethereum and other layer one protocols. 

The Injective platform enables users to take part in decentralized cross chain derivatives trading with zero gas fees, access cross chain yield generation, create and trade on any derivative market with only a price feed, thereby opening up more opportunities for trading on markets not found on other exchanges. So let’s break down what Injective mission is. It’s to create a truly free and decentralized financial network for everyone. They strive to create a more free and inclusive financial system through decentralization by providing the unrestricted and unprecedented ability to express views in the decentralized financial markets. Some of Injective Protocol’s key things would be layer two decentralized derivative trading, so Injective is able to achieve fast trading speeds, while charging zero gas fees. Can also trade on any market, Injective allows anyone to create and trade on any derivative market using only a price feed, thereby opening up many opportunities for Trading and Markets where you wouldn’t actually find with other exchanges. 

There’s also cross chain trading and yield generation. There’s community driven network governance and there’s liquidity mining incentives. So let’s break down and unpacked the Injective chain. I like how Binance research words it: the Injective chain is a fully decentralized side chain relay or network which serves as a layer two derivatives platform, a trade execution coordinator, also known as it TEC, and a decentralized order book. Injective chain utilizes the Tender Mint consensus mechanism, and the core protocol logic is implemented through Cosmos SDK modules. Layer two derivatives platform, the Injective chain supports building generalized derivatives applications through two avenues, the Injective futures protocol and general Smart Contracts. The Injective futures protocols deployed on the Injective chain as the cosmos SDK based application. This protocol enables traders to create enter in and execute decentralized perpetual swap contracts NSFDs on any arbitrary market. 

The Injective chain provides a two way Ethereum pegs zone or Ethereum and ERC tokens to be transferred to the Injective chain as well as EVM compatible execution environment for DeFi applications. So the peg zone is based on Peggy and the EVM execution is based on Ether Mint, INJ is the native asset of Injective Protocol. So that’s their token INJ. And it’s used across a diverse range of functions, such as protocol governance, exchange fee value capture, derivative, collateralization, liquidity mining, and staking to name a few. The following is taken from Coinmarketcap about the INJ token. INJ is the native token of Injective Protocol, and is a scarce asset that is used for governance, exchange value capture, liquidity, mining, and staking. 60% of all exchange fees are used to buy back and burn INJ every two weeks, which allows the supply of INJ to dramatically decrease over time. 

In addition to this transactions on Injective Protocol, brought by new Injective ecosystem projects also helped to burn more INJ. So the amount of total supply of INJ is decreasing over time. The current circulating supply of INJ is just over 32.6 million tokens. And the max supply was 100 million. INJ is currently trading at just over $9.27 there abouts, and the current market cap is just over $303 million. The founders of Injective Protocol are Eric Chen and Albert Chung, Eric he worked as a cryptographic researcher and trader at a major crypto fund where he led an innovative market, neutral trading efforts in the blockchain space, as well as investments into prominent companies like Chainlink and Cosmos. Albert graduated with computer science degrees from Stanford University, and was a software development engineer at Amazon. So, what makes Injective Protocol unique? 

Injective enables anyone to access create and trade unlimited DeFi markets. This means crypto futures, perpetuals and sophisticated financial derivatives can all be traded on Injective in an entirely decentralized manner. And trades are super fast. And it’s almost instant finality and the cost is absolutely zero gas fees. So users on Injective can seamlessly trade across distinct blockchain networks such as Ethereum, Cosmos and Binance Smart Chain. Injective is also able to facilitate trades across Cosmos based projects, such as Terra. Injective is the first custom in operable protocol built for decentralized finance applications. Anyone can create new cross chain dapps using Ethereum based tooling, fast transaction times and instant finality while receiving unparalleled developer incentives. So let me ask you, how is Injective Protocol’s network secured? The Injective Protocol blockchain operates on a Tender Mint based proof of stake or PoS consensus mechanism. Prominent validators helped to secure the network by making it more decentralized. 

Injective’s consensus mechanism achieves instant transaction finality, while leading to a 99% lower carbon footprint. Here’s an interesting note about Injective: one to two second block times with instant finality, as mentioned previously, but that’s just lightning fast. So let’s talk about injectors ecosystem for a minute. They have a large ecosystem of projects which are working with objectives chain and an NF T space super farm is wallets such as Ledger and Math Wallet, stable coins, such as Terra in the DeFi space projects like Kardia Chain, DAO Maker, Mirror and Moonbeam. Under the Oracles category, Chainlink and Band Protocol are a couple, and under blockchains, we have Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain or Binance Chain, Cosmos, LRon Ethereum, Fantom Harmony, Polkadot, Polygon and Huobi Chain, are some of them. You can also use the dex for Injective. It’s at Injective.exchange. That’s the URL Injective data exchange where you can access create and trade unlimited decentralized financial markets. You can connect your Metamask or Ledger Wallets and just start swapping if you choose. Injective Protocol is definitely one of those projects to keep an eye on. I hope that this has been helpful for you. If you like today’s episode, definitely like and subscribe to the podcast. Show your support. And remember to chime in here tomorrow for another special episode. Until then I’m out.

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