Last week, @union_build revealed $U — the utility token of the Union Protocol ecosystem. Here's what you need to know 👇 —🟪 What is Union? Union is the leading ZK interoperability L1, enabling settlement and liquidity for protocols and asset issuers. Union leverages advanced zero-knowledge cryptography to deliver lightning-fast and trustless interoperability across any execution environment. Union has become the preferred interoperability partner for the BTCFi ecosystem – including Bitcoin LSTs, LRTs, and L2s. Previously raised >$16mm through various rounds of institutional fundraising. Metrics: • >325mm testnet transactions • >$50mm TVL on Union – working with top Bitcoin LST protocols including Bedrock, Lombard, and Solv. —🟪 Why Union over other interoperability protocols? Major interoperability protocols struggle to balance efficiency and scalability with decentralization – often relying on offchain actors and centralized verification systems to expand their networks. These create the potential for security vulnerabilities and the emergence of smart contract attack vectors, putting user and institutional funds at risk. Unlike other major interoperability protocols, Union has no dependencies on trusted third parties, oracles, multi-signature wallets, or MPCs – overcoming these limitations by leveraging zero knowledge proofs. This allows users and institutional funds to seamlessly move between L1/L2 ecosystems in a trust-minimized manner – while also having rapid transaction times with minimal gas fees. —🟪 $U $U is the gas token of the Union network – being consumed whenever relayers, provers, or connected chains perform critical actions. These actions include: • Paying to aggregate and verify ZKPs • Maintaining and updating light clients • Creating or freezing connections • Configuring new interoperability routes This usage of $U creates a dynamic fee market where participants can pay more to control orderflow and prioritize critical crosschain operations. By tying token demand directly to proof verification and crosschain connectivity, $U achieves intrinsic utility aligned with the network’s core function: secure, trustless interoperability at scale. The token serves as the native gas token for the network, bought by protocols, relayers, and provers to aggregate proofs and relay transactions. Validators and users stake the token to secure the network, and receive token inflation and fee share in return. —🟪 Key Takeaways from the $U Token Reveal 1️⃣ All core contributors and strategic investor tokens are locked for the first 12 months following TGE. 2️⃣ Staking rewards of core contributors and strategic investors will be locked for 12 months and will have the same vesting schedule as the principal. During this period, core contributors and investors will not be able to sell staking rewards. 3️⃣ There will be future seasons of the U airdrop programme, with 8% of U reserved for these future seasons. 4️⃣ Any unclaimed airdrops will be distributed for future seasons. —🟪 Conclusion Friends with the Union team, and going to keep an eye on $U during its upcoming TGE this week. Comps like $LINK ($26bn FDV), $ZRO ($2bn FDV), $W ($850mm FDV), $AXL ($400mm FDV) trade at strong FDVs, so expecting $U to trade in that range too.

Union just announced $U — the utility token of the @union_build ecosystem. A short recap 👇 1️⃣ Utility • Used for gas and compute • Secures the Union ZK L1 • Cross-chain governance + liquid staking via without bridging 2️⃣ Token Economics • 10bn max supply • 19.2% D1 circulating supply • 60% of supply to the community 3️⃣ Staking • Cross-chain vaults • High early yields to reward early stakers of $U Going to cover this in greater detail in the coming week