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Reef had a solid 2025. While we weren’t able to accomplish everything on the roadmap, much of it came down to team capacity; not a lack of knowledge or funding. Here we wrap up 2025 and what was accomplished.
The slow and steady approach paid off as we had moments to think, reflect, and make important decisions without being rushed. We made $REEF coins easier to access, started consolidating the supply of REEF onto a single chain, and completed some major milestones that are all leading to a comprehensive blockchain ecosystem that is fast, easy to use, and has something for everyone to enjoy so that I can finally stop saying, “Getting onchain is still too hard.”
Orcanize: Did not launch because the developer working on it eventually stated that it was beyond their knowledge to complete it. This gave us a moment to review the project, and ultimately determined it didn’t meet our original goals. Instead of forking Coordinape and ending up with a small feature set, we’ve decided to use a different code base. Orcanize will launch in 2026.
Reef Bridge: We launched the Reef Bridge, built by VIA Labs, in February 2025! The bridge has facilitated the movement of almost 1 billion REEF tokens to Reef Chain, with the legacy representations being burnt again, and again, and again!
Reef had a solid 2025. While we weren’t able to accomplish everything on the roadmap, much of it came down to team capacity; not a lack of knowledge or funding. Here we wrap up 2025 and what was accomplished.
The slow and steady approach paid off as we had moments to think, reflect, and make important decisions without being rushed. We made $REEF coins easier to access, started consolidating the supply of REEF onto a single chain, and completed some major milestones that are all leading to a comprehensive blockchain ecosystem that is fast, easy to use, and has something for everyone to enjoy so that I can finally stop saying, “Getting onchain is still too hard.”
Orcanize: Did not launch because the developer working on it eventually stated that it was beyond their knowledge to complete it. This gave us a moment to review the project, and ultimately determined it didn’t meet our original goals. Instead of forking Coordinape and ending up with a small feature set, we’ve decided to use a different code base. Orcanize will launch in 2026.
Reef Bridge: We launched the Reef Bridge, built by VIA Labs, in February 2025! The bridge has facilitated the movement of almost 1 billion REEF tokens to Reef Chain, with the legacy representations being burnt again, and again, and again!
Lending Platform: In the end, there was no movement, largely because we chose to upgrade Reef Chain instead. It didn’t make sense to deploy a lending platform when the technology stack is about to be upgraded.
Native Stablecoin Platform: The team building this has been on pause for most of 2025, but now is focused on launching after the upcoming Reef Chain upgrade.
MetaMask Snap Plugin: While the MetaMask Snap plugin work was largely completed, we ultimately decided not to release it since the Reef Chain upgrade will make it irrelevant.
Fiat Onramp Provider: Let’s once again welcome Alchemy Pay to the Reef community! Alchemy Pay added $REEF to their fiat on-ramp platform in August 2025.
Hydrastarter: Still in closed testing. It will launch after the Reef Chain upgrade.
Partnerships with New Launchpads: no movement.
Liquid Staking Provider: no movement, but we will work to make this happen after the Reef Chain upgrade occurs.
Utility-Focused Apps: no movement yet.
Hardware Wallet Integration: Ledger compatibility was restored in August 20225 thanks to the anonymous donor.
Shopify Integration: Didn’t happen and is not a priority at this moment.
We made a lot of progress on securing support from centralized exchanges in 2025. Gate, MEXC, CoinEx, WhiteBIT, KuCoin, Paribu, CoinSpot, Bitrue, Poloniex, and HTX all made the switch to supporting native $REEF only! We were also able to get BitMart to re-list REEF, and secured a new listing on Hotcoin.
〰️ MetaMask support will come to Reef’s in-house built apps in the near future thanks to the upcoming chain upgrade.
Reef Chain Wallet underwent a major retooling under the hood, and we finally launched on iOS and iPadOS in October!
Wrapped USDC also launched on Reef Chain thanks to our partnership with VIA Labs.
We participated in live events like Web3 Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Web3Conf Enugu in Nigeria, and La Dolce Waddle in Italy this year. We also have been using our sponsorship of Crawley Town FC to bring more awareness to the UK market by attending home games, advertising on the video billboard inside the stadium, and we revealed an upcoming NFT collection a few weeks ago.
We also leaned heavily into CoinMarketCap, turning that into a real news delivery and attention getting platform, while also enhancing the Reef profile on CMC and CoinGecko. These are trusted data sources that have to be kept up-to-date as much as possible.
We’re now focused on what’s coming in 2026:
A major blockchain-level upgrade that will make Reef easier to build on, easier to use, faster and more secure.
Advising two RWA platforms that are currently in development, one built by a team we met during our time in Nigeria.
Coordinating with a native stablecoin protocol in development, and will launch after the blockchain upgrade.
A new version of Sqwid with a new NFT storage protocol.
A sports equity tokenization project being built on Reef.
And more, which we will showcase in our 2026 roadmap.
Thank you for being part of the journey. Together, we’re building the best user experience in blockchain, one step at a time!
Reef is a fast, affordable, and efficient layer 1 blockchain. Our mission is to make Reef the easiest and most accessible blockchain for all Web3 users by making it easy for everyone to start accessing and benefiting from blockchain technology through core apps like Reef Chain Wallet, ReefScan, and ReefSwap.
For more information about Reef Chain and its products, visit https://reef.io.
Lending Platform: In the end, there was no movement, largely because we chose to upgrade Reef Chain instead. It didn’t make sense to deploy a lending platform when the technology stack is about to be upgraded.
Native Stablecoin Platform: The team building this has been on pause for most of 2025, but now is focused on launching after the upcoming Reef Chain upgrade.
MetaMask Snap Plugin: While the MetaMask Snap plugin work was largely completed, we ultimately decided not to release it since the Reef Chain upgrade will make it irrelevant.
Fiat Onramp Provider: Let’s once again welcome Alchemy Pay to the Reef community! Alchemy Pay added $REEF to their fiat on-ramp platform in August 2025.
Hydrastarter: Still in closed testing. It will launch after the Reef Chain upgrade.
Partnerships with New Launchpads: no movement.
Liquid Staking Provider: no movement, but we will work to make this happen after the Reef Chain upgrade occurs.
Utility-Focused Apps: no movement yet.
Hardware Wallet Integration: Ledger compatibility was restored in August 20225 thanks to the anonymous donor.
Shopify Integration: Didn’t happen and is not a priority at this moment.
We made a lot of progress on securing support from centralized exchanges in 2025. Gate, MEXC, CoinEx, WhiteBIT, KuCoin, Paribu, CoinSpot, Bitrue, Poloniex, and HTX all made the switch to supporting native $REEF only! We were also able to get BitMart to re-list REEF, and secured a new listing on Hotcoin.
〰️ MetaMask support will come to Reef’s in-house built apps in the near future thanks to the upcoming chain upgrade.
Reef Chain Wallet underwent a major retooling under the hood, and we finally launched on iOS and iPadOS in October!
Wrapped USDC also launched on Reef Chain thanks to our partnership with VIA Labs.
We participated in live events like Web3 Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Web3Conf Enugu in Nigeria, and La Dolce Waddle in Italy this year. We also have been using our sponsorship of Crawley Town FC to bring more awareness to the UK market by attending home games, advertising on the video billboard inside the stadium, and we revealed an upcoming NFT collection a few weeks ago.
We also leaned heavily into CoinMarketCap, turning that into a real news delivery and attention getting platform, while also enhancing the Reef profile on CMC and CoinGecko. These are trusted data sources that have to be kept up-to-date as much as possible.
We’re now focused on what’s coming in 2026:
A major blockchain-level upgrade that will make Reef easier to build on, easier to use, faster and more secure.
Advising two RWA platforms that are currently in development, one built by a team we met during our time in Nigeria.
Coordinating with a native stablecoin protocol in development, and will launch after the blockchain upgrade.
A new version of Sqwid with a new NFT storage protocol.
A sports equity tokenization project being built on Reef.
And more, which we will showcase in our 2026 roadmap.
Thank you for being part of the journey. Together, we’re building the best user experience in blockchain, one step at a time!
Reef is a fast, affordable, and efficient layer 1 blockchain. Our mission is to make Reef the easiest and most accessible blockchain for all Web3 users by making it easy for everyone to start accessing and benefiting from blockchain technology through core apps like Reef Chain Wallet, ReefScan, and ReefSwap.
For more information about Reef Chain and its products, visit https://reef.io.
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