stTIA Expansion: Stride Expands to the Modular Ecosystem with Hyperlane

We’re excited to announce that Stride, the premier liquid staking hub, is collaborating with Hyperlane to expand stTIA to the modular ecosystem.

Stride is a liquid staking focused blockchain with $130m+ in TVL, providing the leading LSTs for major crypto assets such as TIA, ATOM, OSMO, and DYDX. Less than a week after launching, stTIA is already Celestia’s largest LST.

Why Stride?

The only thing Stride does is liquid staking. No DeFi, no NFTs, no gaming. No smart contracts. Just liquid staking. As a result of its minimalism, the Stride chain has had zero downtime and is exceptionally secure.

Importantly, Stride doesn’t compete with other modular chains for liquidity. It has no DeFi, no need for native liquidity, and no incentive to control the flow of TIA and stTIA for itself. Because of this neutrality, other chains want their bridged TIA + stTIA to come from Stride.

The uptime, security, and neutrality make Stride an ideal routing hub for TIA and stTIA.

Given the increasing demand for TIA (to pay for Celestia data availability and as a monetary asset), it’s important to connect it to as many modular rollups as possible. And with Stride’s new stTIA giving users both staking rewards and airdrops while remaining liquid, we expect demand for stTIA to be even higher.

So how will TIA + stTIA connect to the modular ecosystem? Hyperlane.

Why Hyperlane?

Currently, Stride and Celestia are both connected by the standard Cosmos bridge, IBC. So why not just use IBC for connecting everything? While IBC is the industry standard for interoperability, it isn’t compatible with rollups/blockchains outside the Cosmos SDK stack. In fact, the majority of live and upcoming chains in the modular ecosystem will not be IBC-compatible.

A more adaptable and permissionless interoperability solution is needed: Hyperlane.

With Hyperlane:

• Anyone can deploy to any chain/rollup. Permissionless and out-of-the-box.
• Adaptable to any virtual machine environment (EVM, SVM, MoveVM, CosmWASM, and more)
• Modular Security Stack that allows developers to customize their security with composable Hooks and Interchain Security Modules (ISMs). Hooks and ISMs can be easily swapped out as more interchain security solutions are developed, such as zk light clients, making Hyperlane integrations effectively future proof.
• Liquidity bridging with Warp Routes.

Since Stride is focused exclusively on liquid staking and doesn’t support smart contracts, the main integration work will be dedicated to installing a CosmWasm smart contract module on the Stride chain. Once installed, a Hyperlane deployment and Warp Routes will enable stTIA to flow to any non-IBC chain. We expect the integration work to be completed in 2 months.

What’s Next? Modular Expansion.

stTIA is just the first step. The bigger vision is stEverything Everywhere with Stride, connected by Hyperlane.

To get ahead of the stTIA expansion, consider self-deploying Hyperlane on your chain with our guide.

More about Hyperlane

Hyperlane is the permissionless interoperability layer connecting the modular ecosystem. With Hyperlane, anyone can connect any blockchain, rollup, appchain, on any VM. Additionally, Hyperlane’s modular security stack gives developers the power to customize their interchain security to their needs.

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