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A next-gen ZK protocol that makes crosschain transfers fully private, auditable and scalable while bringing unmatched confidentiality to decentralized finance.
Introducing Union’s New Look: refreshed brand identity, updated logo, and expanded visual system for the Union community.
Union's public mainnet is officially live. The era of trustless, scalable, zk-based interop has begun.
Union is integrating Base, to connect more people to the global onchain economy being built on Base.
Union Foundation introduces U, the token of the Union network. Learn about the utility and tokenomics powering the Union network.
Chain-abstracted architecture, developed and deployed by Escher and Union, will empower the Union token and its liquid staked counterpart from day one.
The Union network will accelerate BTCfi adoption and be secured by crypto’s most decentralized and time-tested asset, Bitcoin.
The new product will leverage Union's ZK-secured, trust-minimized interoperability to make the Union Bitcoin LST instantly available across ecosystems.
The Union Foundation is officially announcing that the Union token will be ERC20 compatible, and issued on Ethereum.
Union's truly crosschain governance system will enable staking & delegation across connected chains, starting with Ethereum.
With 4,683 successful contributions and 4,590 still in the queue, Union breaks the record previously held by Manta Network.
U Combinator was a success, leading to 7 projects and dozens of fellows building on and with Union.
Union will launch a limited mainnet in support of the Babylon Genesis chain, Bitcoin Secured Networks like Corn and BOB, and Bitcoin LSTs such as uniBTC.
Union Foundation is supporting builders who are boosting transaction activity, increasing TVL, and expanding Union’s coverage across different verticals.
Announcing U Combinator: a Union-focused incubator program in collaboration with Cracked Labs. 50 teams compete to join the next cohort of Union Fellows.
Testnet 9, the final Union testnet before mainnet, is live and ready for public testing. Battle test the network to ensure Union is ready for mainnet.
Union will seamlessly transfer all Babylon assets and LSTs to every chain Union is connected to.
Complete missions, unlock achievements, earn rewards, and compete on the leaderboard to grow the Union ecosystem.
NodeKit’s Javelin superbuilder and Union’s Galois prover combine to speed up cross-chain transactions.
Creating a secure IBC connection between Avalanche L1s and the Union network.
Capital raised is earmarked for core team expansion, partner integrations, and ecosystem growth. Union’s Series A round brings the project’s funds raised to a total of $16M.
Union and Aori are bringing high-frequency intent execution to the Union ecosystem. Intents served through the Union network will be directed to Aori for fulfillment.
The collaboration will leverage Union’s infrastructure and the Rome SDK to bring decentralized interoperability to the Solana ecosystem.
RISC Zero is collaborating with Union to optimize light client proof aggregation, combining the strengths of both technologies.
As core contributors to the multi-chain movement, Union and Agoric will unlock a scalable future where thousands of chains can permissionlessly connect, communicate, and thrive.
Hyper-efficient interoperability meets chain abstracted user experience, to pave the way for wide-spread consumer adoption.
The Trusted Setup Ceremony is an opportunity for anyone to contribute to Union, and ensure Union’s ZK-based interoperability is secure and decentralized.
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Union has officially adopted the Whale Shark as its mascot, to symbolize its desire to grow and become the dominant interoperability provider in crypto.
Union is partnering with Native to develop trust-minimized interoperability for the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Union Labs is open sourcing the Union protocol, inviting builders to contribute to and permissionlessly integrate with Union.
With the integration of Berachain and Stride into the Union Testnet App, new activities are revealed. Let the quest for Fur and Friendship commence.
Union’s two-way interoperability solution will unlock liquidity flows across Ethereum L2s, EVM-compatible L1s, and Cosmos/IBC chains.
Today, Union’s public testnet goes live. Go to app.union.build, connect your wallet, and start transferring assets.
Union’s zk-IBC bridge will be used to transport NFTs for the first time between Ethereum and IBC
Union is set to enhance its zero-knowledge interoperability through a strategic collaboration with Aligned Layer.
Union is plugging into the AggLayer, developed by leading L2 developer Polygon Labs, to facilitate message passing and asset transfers between the Polygon ecosystem and IBC-enabled chains.
The campaign will incentivize participation in the public RPC infrastructure, encouraging community engagement and growth within the Union and wider interoperable ecosystems.
Union’s zk-IBC bridge will be used for message passing and asset transfers between Canto and IBC-enabled chains, spurring ecosystem growth.
Union is partnering with Scroll to transfer assets and messages from any IBC-enabled chain into Scroll through its fully trustless, decentralized, hyper-efficient zkIBC bridge.
Union democratizes the fundamental Web3 mechanism of cross-ecosystem connection.
Union and Secret Network partner for seamless and private Interoperability
Movement and Noble join forces with Union to transfer native assets across Celestia's modular stack.
Today, we're thrilled to announce that we've successfully raised $4 million in seed funding to drive our mission of revolutionizing cross-chain infrastructure.