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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:

  • Wormhole Connect – handles user-friendly asset transfers
  • Native Token Transfer – moves native assets across chains
  • Queries – fetches real-time prices for optimal trade execution

🔗 Used in: Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and liquidity aggregators - 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 Transfers – transfers collateral as native assets
  • Queries – fetches interest rates and asset prices in real-time

🔗 Used in: Lending protocols and yield platforms - 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 - Infinex

Asset movement between Bitcoin and other chains＃

💡 Enable direct BTC transfers without wrapped assets.

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Native Token Transfers – transfers BTC across chains

🔗 Used in: Bitcoin DeFi and lightning network integrations - 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 - Chingari

Memecoin Launchpads＃

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

🛠 Wormhole products used:

  • Native Token Transfers – 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 crosschain 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:

  • Messaging – routes gas fee payments across chains
  • Native Token Transfers – facilitates native token conversion for gas payments

🔗 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 automations and smart contract libraries

Multichain Prediction Markets＃

💡 Enable users to participate in predictions across multiple chains, creating deeper liquidity pools and more competitive odds compared to single-chain 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:

  • Wormhole Connect – facilitates seamless payments in various tokens
  • Native Token Transfers – ensures direct, native asset transfers

🔗 Used in: eCommerce, 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 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 Transfers – transfers staked assets natively between networks

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