Wormhole reports over $70B in cross-chain volume as institutional adoption accelerates

Cross-chain infrastructure is one of those things that most crypto users interact with constantly but rarely think about. It’s the plumbing behind multichain DeFi, the reason a token minted on Solana can show up in an Ethereum wallet, and increasingly, the rails that major financial institutions are choosing to move tokenized assets. Wormhole just released figures that suggest it has quietly become one of the most significant pieces of that plumbing. The protocol has now processed over $70 billion in cumulative cross-chain volume and facilitated more than one billion messages across over 40 blockchains. Those numbers cover both Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible chains and non-EVM networks, reflecting a scope that goes well beyond the Solana-Ethereum bridge that Wormhole started as. What the numbers actually mean Of that total, $17.6 billion was processed in 2025 alone. A single integration partner, the Mayan protocol, contributed more than $16 billion of that figure through cross-chain swaps. That means one application built on Wormhole’s infrastructure is nearly single-handedly driving a year’s worth of volume. The one billion messages figure is arguably more telling than the do...