The crypto market has an eternal game — whoever controls liquidity, controls the narrative of the ecosystem.

You should have felt the rhythm of these years. First, individual public chains showcased their strengths, then Layer2 collectively took off, and now? The multi-chain landscape led by the Bitcoin ecosystem has been fully opened. But the problem follows — liquidity is scattered in all directions, each chain is isolated, cross-chain transfers are inefficient, and there are a bunch of security risks. The market is actually calling for a smarter solution.

Against this backdrop, one project has been very active. Using the "universal collateral infrastructure" approach, it has pushed the stablecoin USDf to a hundred billion dollars in volume in just one year. Initially, the market was chasing price volatility and there was a lot of spectators. But if you look deeper, this project is playing a bigger game — by integrating top-tier cross-chain infrastructure and even touching the realm of real-world assets (RWA), it aims to become a hub connecting various fragments of value. This is not just about scale, but truly testing its "universal" promise.

Recently, several signals are worth paying attention to. On December 23, the project's core figure Andrei Grachev publicly announced that over $2 billion worth of USDf will be expanded through Chainlink’s cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP). This choice is meaningful. Chainlink’s CCIP has a clear positioning in the industry — it is a cross-chain solution designed for institutional-grade applications, with top-tier security and compliance. The project’s choice essentially sends a signal to the market: what we aim for is not aggressive multi-chain expansion, but a "compliant multi-chain" path.