**[Wormhole Labs Launches Sunrise, Bringing Assets Like MON into the Solana Ecosystem]** Odaily Planet Daily News: Wormhole Labs (the company behind the cross-chain protocol Wormhole) has announced the public release of Sunrise, a new liquidity portal focused on the Solana ecosystem. Sunrise aims to become the standard pathway for external assets entering Solana. The product is designed to address the liquidity fragmentation issues often associated with bridging new tokens across chains, ensuring that new on-chain assets can be traded within the Solana ecosystem from day one. **First Major Test Case:** Sunrise will support the native token MON of the highly anticipated Monad blockchain on its launch day. The token is scheduled to begin trading tomorrow (November 24). **Ecosystem Integration:** Assets entering Solana through Sunrise will be immediately tradable on Solana DeFi platforms, including decentralized exchange Jupiter and blockchain explorer Orb. **Technical Foundation:** Sunrise leverages Wormhole’s Native Token Transfers (NTT) infrastructure, allowing tokens to retain their utility and fungibility after cross-chain transfers, avoiding the risks associated with traditional liquidity pools. **Future Expansion:** Wormhole Labs CEO Saeed Badreg stated that Sunrise plans to expand beyond crypto assets in the future, supporting tokenized commodities, stocks, and real-world assets (RWAs) issued on institutional chains. Kuleen Nimkar, Head of Growth at the Solana Foundation, emphasized that products like Sunrise are critical for Solana to achieve its vision of an “internet capital market.” Monad, a highly anticipated Layer 1 network project, completed a $225 million funding round led by Paradigm in early 2024. Wormhole Labs is positioning Sunrise as the primary entry point for MON, further solidifying its role in Solana’s market structure.