Injective Veyra Mainnet Upgrade (v1.21.0)

Original Proposal Text

The Veyra Mainnet Upgrade marks a major advancement in Injective's mission to bring global financial markets onchain. Building on the recent launch of Injective Institutional Rail, Veyra introduces a comprehensive suite of new capabilities designed to accelerate institutional adoption, expand real world asset (RWA) markets, and enable the next generation of tokenized financial products. As Injective prepares for a new wave of institutional RWA launches, Veyra strengthens the underlying infrastructure required to support global financial institutions, asset issuers, and sophisticated trading applications. This upgrade represents another significant step toward establishing Injective as the definitive financial infrastructure layer for the world's capital markets. Next Generation Institutional RWA Infrastructure Veyra significantly expands Injective's MultiVM architecture through new IBC interoperability capabilities, enabling assets to move seamlessly between Injective's EVM and the broader interchain ecosystem. These advancements unlock new opportunities for institutional asset issuance, crosschain liquidity, and the development of tokenized financial markets at scale. Institutional Trading and Liquidity Expansion Veyra introduces new request for quote (RFQ) infrastructure alongside expanded atomic swap functionality, laying the foundation for more sophisticated institutional trading and settlement workflows. These capabilities further advance Injective Institutional Rail, enabling the development of new financial applications that connect tokenized assets with onchain liquidity and institutional execution infrastructure. Accelerating Native Privacy Infrastructure Veyra builds on the foundations established by Meridian to prepare Injective for the next phase of privacy enabled financial markets. These advancements support the broader roadmap for CypherOS, Injective's upcoming native privacy platform designed to bring confidential trading, RWAs and financial transactions onchain. Privacy will be a critical component of institutional adoption, enabling financial institutions to bring increasingly sophisticated financial activity onchain while protecting sensitive transaction information. Advancing the Next Wave of Institutional Adoption Together, these improvements expand Injective's ability to support the complete lifecycle of tokenized financial assets, from issuance and distribution to trading and settlement. With Injective Institutional Rail establishing the foundation for enterprise adoption, Veyra represents the next major leap toward onboarding global financial institutions, unlocking new RWA markets, and bringing trillions of dollars in traditional financial assets onchain. If passed, this proposal will commit the Injective blockchain to halt at a block height of 193145000, targeted for November 24, 2026, and resume with the v1.21.0 version of the Injective Chain application binary. Further details on this release version can be found in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/InjectiveFoundation/injective-core/releases Disclosure: I am a member of the Injective Labs team.