Cryptopedia - Wormhole

## What is Wormhole? Wormhole is the asset transfer infrastructure through which all digital assets move. As capital markets, stablecoins, and real-world assets transition onchain, Wormhole provides the secure, universal interoperability platform that enables them to flow seamlessly between blockchains. Since launching in 2020, Wormhole has become the leading interoperability platform, connecting more than 40 blockchains and facilitating over $60 billion in value in more than 1 billion cross-chain messages. Institutions including BlackRock, Apollo, Hamilton Lane, VanEck, and Securitize rely on Wormhole to power tokenized assets and multichain capital markets, while protocols like Circle (USDC), Uniswap, Lido, Pyth, and Jupiter depend on it to enable movement of assets and data across ecosystems. By bridging the gap between traditional finance and crypto, Wormhole is not just an interoperability protocol, it is the critical infrastructure layer for the future of global capital markets.