Introduction to Wormhole

In this session hosted by The BLOKC, Will, the APAC Ecosystem Growth Manager for the Wormhole Foundation, introduces Wormhole as a cross-chain messaging layer rather than a simple token bridge. He walks through how the protocol connects ecosystems such as Solana, Ethereum, and Move-based chains, and how teams like xLabs, Wormhole Labs, and Asymmetry Research contribute alongside partners including Uniswap, Jupiter, PancakeSwap, and Lido.

What the session covers

Wormhole is presented as foundational infrastructure that lets separate blockchain environments communicate and share state. A decentralized network of 19 Guardians validates and signs cross-chain messages, providing the trust layer the protocol depends on. Will highlights several developer tools: Wormhole Connect, a drop-in front-end widget that can be added in around ten minutes; Native Token Transfers (NTT), which supports lock-and-mint or burn-and-mint flows without locking teams into a single vendor; and Wormhole Queries, a cheaper and faster way to pull data across chains.

What you can build

Because Wormhole reaches more than 30 chains across six runtimes, developers can acquire users from many ecosystems without building their own bridges. Will points to cross-chain governance, as seen in Uniswap’s multichain deployment, and cross-chain borrow-lending, where collateral on Ethereum backs stablecoin borrowing on Solana. Other examples include cross-chain NFTs and oracle price feeds, such as Pyth Network relaying data over Wormhole.

What’s next

The roadmap centers on global and APAC-focused hackathons paired with developer houses, plus a push toward chain abstraction that hides multi-wallet complexity from users. The foundation is also launching an Ecosystem Fund with Borderless Capital to back startups integrating the protocol.