Wormhole connects Dogecoin to Solana via Sunrise project

Dogecoin, the internet’s favorite canine-themed crypto, has arrived on Solana. Through Wormhole’s Native Token Transfers framework and a new liquidity gateway called Sunrise, DOGE is now accessible on Solana natively, meaning the token keeps its original properties rather than becoming a synthetic stand-in wrapped in someone else’s smart contract. The integration, which went live on May 23, 2025, covers the complete circulating supply of DOGE, a figure valued at roughly $35 billion. That makes it one of the largest single-asset cross-chain transfers in crypto history. What NTT actually does differently The traditional approach to bringing a token from one chain to another is wrapping: you lock the original asset somewhere, mint a synthetic version on the destination chain, and hope the peg holds. It works, mostly, but it fragments liquidity and strips token issuers of control over their own asset’s metadata and supply rules. Wormhole’s Native Token Transfers framework takes a different path. Rather than creating a wrapped copy, NTT moves the actual token representation natively, using zero-knowledge proofs to verify the transfer while preserving the issuer’s authority over things l...