Wormhole Labs introduced the Sunrise platform on Sunday with the aim of becoming the primary entry point for new digital assets into the Solana ecosystem.
The platform introduces a unified gateway that allows issuers and users to move tokens from any ecosystem to the Solana blockchain.
The debut comes just before Monad and its token, MON, arrive on mainnet on Monday. This gives Solana users immediate access to the token without having to navigate the usual complex network of bridges and aggregators.
Sunrise targets growing challenge in Solana’s rapidly expanding markets. While the chain has seen accelerated activity, new assets have struggled to effectively find their way into the ecosystem.
Users often face fragmented liquidity, multi-step transition processes, and limited trading platforms in the start-up phase. Sunrise positions itself as Solana’s “canonical path” for new tokens, aiming to streamline this flow into a single, standardized interface.
Integrations with block explorer Orb and decentralized exchange Jupiter will also go live, so any cryptocurrency imported through Sunrise can be immediately accessed and traded within the Solana ecosystem.
The team said it expects the first major test to take place when MON is introduced, allowing the token to move from Monad to Solana in a single step.
“Solana’s vision for Internet Capital Markets means being the platform where users can interact with any asset, including crypto assets that don’t come from Solana,” said Kuleen Nimkar, head of growth at the Solana Foundation. “Products like Sunrise play a critical role in enabling this future by providing new non-native assets with a transparent, high-liquidity path to the network from day one. »
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