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A New Standard for Cross-Chain Infrastructure

A New Standard for Cross-Chain Infrastructure

For more than a decade, networks have multiplied faster than capital could keep up with them. Every new network promised lower transaction costs, faster settlement, and new financial primitives. And every time a new chain gained traction, the same problem appeared almost immediately: liquidity fragmented, users had to manually shuttle

YieldNest’s Capital-First Approach to Multichain Expansion

YieldNest’s Capital-First Approach to Multichain Expansion

YieldNest builds yield-bearing assets for capital seeking stability. Products like ynRWAx give users exposure to real-world yields backed by off-chain collateral, diversified across durations and managed through fully audited, onchain infrastructure. YieldNest also issues LST-style assets such as ynBNB, applying the same execution standards to crypto-native markets. For products that

Balancer v3 Is Live on Enso

Balancer v3 Is Live on Enso

Balancer v3 is now available on Enso. This integration makes Balancer a native execution venue for any product built with Enso, whether that product runs a frontend, operates fully in the backend, or manages capital across chains. Making Advanced Liquidity Easier to Use Balancer is known for enabling sophisticated liquidity

How HyperSwap Unlocked Multi-Chain Growth with Enterprise-Grade Execution

How HyperSwap Unlocked Multi-Chain Growth with Enterprise-Grade Execution

Launching on a new chain usually comes with a painful choice: spend months integrating liquidity, bridges, and routing systems, or launch without cross-chain swaps and watch users go elsewhere. HyperSwap chose neither. They shipped cross-chain swaps on HyperEVM by integrating Enso’s high-integrity execution, delivering reliable and consistent outcomes across

The First Epoch of the Enso Network Has Concluded

The First Epoch of the Enso Network Has Concluded

A major milestone for everyone securing the Enso Network. The first epoch has ended, and rewards have now been distributed. From day one, stakers and validators formed the backbone of Enso. Now the network is live. It is running and scaling. Validator Performance and Network Usage at Scale Since genesis,

Learn How to stake ENSO

Learn How to stake ENSO

Staking is how you take part in securing the Enso Network. By locking your $ENSO with a validator, you help maintain consensus and verify actions across the network. 1. Head to drop.enso.build Review the list of active validators and their current APYs. This helps you decide who to

Enso 101: Network Validators

Enso 101: Network Validators

Every network begins with security. For Enso, that means Validators. They are the first live role in the Enso Network, the foundation everything else will build on. Validators are where the network begins and where the $ENSO economy comes alive. Why Validators come first Enso is a new kind of

EnsoDrop: Pre-Stake $ENSO Today

EnsoDrop: Pre-Stake $ENSO Today

Enso is the engine behind Web3. It unifies all blockchains, rollups, and smart contracts into one network, a shared engine that makes composability a reality and powers what is built on any chain. Today, we are opening the pre-registration for the $ENSO launch. Allocations can be claimed at mainnet by

Introducing Enso Checkout

Introducing Enso Checkout

Crypto has hundreds of millions of users, yet most never move beyond centralized platforms. This changes today. We are launching Checkout, the universal crypto payment solution built to bring the next wave of users onchain. One-Click to Onchain Checkout is designed as the Stripe of Web3. It lets any dapp

Final Lap: Proof of Humanity in the Shortcut Speedrun

Final Lap: Proof of Humanity in the Shortcut Speedrun

The Enso Speedrun has been one of the wildest experiments in crypto this year. Over 1M racers joined. Leaderboards lit up with activity. Shortcuts, the building blocks of Enso, were pushed to their limit, and they proved themselves. For weeks, the Speedrun has been alive with energy: real people building,

From 8 Seconds to 1: How Notus Used Enso to Power ita High-Performance Wallet

From 8 Seconds to 1: How Notus Used Enso to Power ita High-Performance Wallet

While building Chainless, a wallet for the Brazilian market, the Notus team hit a wall. The existing infrastructure was not built for the clean, seamless experience they wanted to provide to their customers. The result was Chainless: a wallet with smoother UX, thanks to faster swap quoting. But, the team

How a 16-Person Team Grew Oku to 60K Monthly Users by Competing with CEXes on UX

How a 16-Person Team Grew Oku to 60K Monthly Users by Competing with CEXes on UX

Between 80% and 95% of all cryptocurrency trading happens on centralized exchanges (CEXes), despite billions of dollars invested in decentralized finance. Oku Trade, the laser-focused team of 16, recognized this was not a technology problem, but a user experience issue, and took the challenge of making DeFi more convenient. One

Integrations Roundup: July

Integrations Roundup: July

In July, we continued expanding coverage across ecosystems, adding support for major DeFi protocols, vaults, and liquidity layers, all now live through the Enso API and Crosschain Widget. TL;DR SushiSwap v3 rolled out across 10+ chains. Yearn v3 and Morpho Blue expanded coverage. Dozens of new vaults, DEXs, and

Meet the DeFi Navigator

Meet the DeFi Navigator

When you’re working across multiple chains and protocols, even a small mistake, a wrong token address, an outdated APY, can result in reverted transactions and your app not working as intended. That’s why we built the Enso DeFi Navigator. It’s your go-to tool for exploring what’s

One Click Leverage: How Contango Brought Looping to the Masses

One Click Leverage: How Contango Brought Looping to the Masses

Contango delivered a single-transaction looping mechanism across 300+ trading pairs, including complex yield-bearing assets and LSTs using Enso’s token routing optimization.

How YO Built Institutional-Grade Onchain Asset Allocation

How YO Built Institutional-Grade Onchain Asset Allocation

Integrations Roundup: June

Integrations Roundup: June

New protocols. New chains. New tools. Last month, Enso kept shipping at full speed, expanding support across chains, adding powerful new DeFi integrations, and launching our most ambitious product yet: the Crosschain Route Widget. We also closed an oversubscribed CoinList sale, bringing thousands of new supporters into the network. Momentum

One-Click Lending: How Benqi Cut Through The Multi-Step DeFi Problem

One-Click Lending: How Benqi Cut Through The Multi-Step DeFi Problem

Benqi eliminated the back-and-forth between DEXs and lending protocols by providing one-click lending shortcuts to users using Enso’s crosschain declarative routing.

Fast Track DeFi: Inverse's One-Click Solution in Hours

Fast Track DeFi: Inverse's One-Click Solution in Hours

What if you could slash DeFi complexity in just hours? Inverse Finance did exactly that. As a DeFi protocol offering tools like sDOLA stablecoins, auto-compounding vaults, and liquidity solutions, Inverse uses smart contracts to simplify complex financial interactions for users. In half a day, the team shipped a major user

Say Hello to Crosschain Deposits

Say Hello to Crosschain Deposits

Swap, bridge, and enter DeFi positions across chains, in one flow Web3 set out to create a composable ecosystem, an open system of interoperable protocols where developers could build with lego-like primitives and users could move freely across chains. But the reality fell short. Liquidity became fragmented, UX became bloated,

Kodiak Powers Permissionless Auto-Compounding Vaults with Enso

Kodiak Powers Permissionless Auto-Compounding Vaults with Enso

Kodiak’s Vaults, better known as 'Baults', are ERC-4626 vaults, which are smart contracts that standardize the process of depositing and withdrawing tokens while earning yield on the underlying asset. Under the hood, these vaults stake user deposits into Berachain’s native Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) reward vaults. The vaults

Enso Powers Day-One Execution on Plume

Enso Powers Day-One Execution on Plume

Plume is redefining what it means to bring real-world assets (RWAs) onchain with full execution capabilities from launch. Enso powers the entire flow behind Plume’s Season 2 incentives, hosted on Royco’s marketplace. From data, such as token prices, over deposits, to the vault zap-ins, interactions run through Enso

How TurtleDAO Simplified DeFi Complexity with Enso

How TurtleDAO Simplified DeFi Complexity with Enso

Kicking off our Case Study series with TurtleDAO: discover how they unified 8 disjointed vault flows into one smooth user journey using Enso’s routing API. TurtleDAO helps protocols drive liquidity by running reward campaigns, like their recent campaign that brought $150M in 16 days to the TON Network Summoning

May Integration Roundup

May Integration Roundup

May was massive for Enso. We launched the Speedrun campaign, inviting hundreds of thousands to deploy onchain apps through Enso. We also dropped the Uniswap LP Migrator, letting users migrate liquidity to Uniswap v4 across chains in a single click. On top of that? We integrated 25+ new protocols across

Backend Operations with Enso Shortcuts

Backend Operations with Enso Shortcuts

The most complex DeFi strategies happen behind the scenes. Recursive loops that amplify exposure. Auto-rebalancers that optimize allocations. Position managers who coordinate assets across protocols. These backend flows are what make DeFi work, but building them manually takes months. Each strategy requires multiple transactions, protocol integrations, swap routing, token approvals,