The First Universal Blockchain
With its Universal EVM, ZetaChain is an L1 blockchain for chain abstraction. Build simple, secure, omnichain apps that span any chain from Ethereum and Cosmos to Bitcoin and beyond.
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The Universal Entrypoint to Crypto
The crypto industry is rapidly innovating, growing, and expanding. New blockchains and layers on top of those blockchains pop up every day, making the industry more and more complicated for developers and users.
Universal Apps built on ZetaChain connect to anything in the crypto ecosystem, giving you simple, seamless, and secure access to all of crypto, as if it were all in a single place.
Ecosystem Partners
Explore ZetaChain's growing ecosystem of diverse apps and partners across DeFi, Infrastructure, Wallets, Social, and beyond. See who is building with ZetaChain towards a future of connected crypto.
Future-proof omnichain apps
For app developers, choosing a blockchain ecosystem can feel daunting. With ZetaChain, you can rest easy knowing that your apps have universal access to any blockchain. With the Universal EVM, you can deploy your code once and future-proof your applications.
Seamless entry for consumers
Access and interact with all of your assets, data, and the web3 ecosystem without needing to manage multiple wallets.
One-stop shop for developers
ZetaChain enables devs to build and deploy apps that work across all chains, from a single place.
Minimized risk for your assets
Universal Apps have straightforward logic in a single place and settle assets on their native chains, so users can rest easier.
Introducing the Chain Abstraction Framework (CAF)
Universal Chain Abstraction
Users no longer focus on choice of blockchain, as ZetaChain’s Omnichain Smart Contracts and CAF abstract interactions and assets from any chain.Native Bitcoin access
Bring Bitcoin and its community into dApps, seamlessly. Users and dApps can utilize assets like BTC to interact with and program across all connected chains.Any Chain, Any Wallet
The Chain Abstraction Framework gives developers the power to bring the best of any chain into their app, while users can access it from any wallet.Simplified experience
The universal execution layer abstracts transactions across all chains, with logic in a single place, resulting in simplified fees and transaction structures.Build Universal Apps
With ZetaChain, the only limit is your imagination. Build and deploy once, and your dApp works seamlessly across blockchains, including non-smart contract chains like Bitcoin and Dogecoin.
Omnichain DeFi primitives
Key omnichain DeFi primitives underpin the entire ecosystem. Applications such as omnichain DEXes (AMM, Perp, PMM, Orderbook, Etc.), lending, CDP, stablecoins, liquid staking, and others provide a seamless and unified omnichain liquidity hub.
Bitcoin collateralization and DeFi
ZetaChain enables Bitcoin apps. Bring Bitcoin into DeFi in a native and decentralized way, creating new yield and value creation opportunities for Bitcoin.
Native token staking, restaking, and data availability
With ZetaChain’s Universal Proof of Stake and access to fungible assets through ZRC-20, native staking and restaking protocols can be created to power new systems, such as data availability layer integration, BTC/BNB/ETH staking, and more.
Super aggregators
DApps built on ZetaChain can orchestrate assets and data into various other dApps on connected chains. These super aggregators leverage existing liquidity on external chains for opportunities such as decentralized yield aggregation, savings accounts, and portfolio management.
Social, gaming, and identity
Create chain-agnostic user-focused apps where participants can acquire on-chain game assets using any token, such as Bitcoin, maintain an identity or domain, or interact with friends on-chain without needing to hop around networks.
Ecosystem Updates
April 2024: The ZetaChain Universal EVM crosses 100 million transactions in 90 days!
ZetaChain, the first Universal EVM, crosses 100M TXs, fueling the start of the largest Ecosystem Growth Fund announcement to date (5% of total ZETA supply).
Building cross-chain DEX, Restaking, BTC staking as an Omnichain Smart Contract on ZetaChain
This blog explores deploying prominent crypto protocols as an Omnichain Smart Contract on ZetaChain. The mentioned products involve many functions, which are subject to change. Further, changes and upgrades to the ZetaChain protocol are required to achieve such functionality.
ZetaChain commits 5% of total ZETA supply to developer and dApp ecosystem growth program including 1% for Bitcoin projects
The new ecosystem program will accelerate growth of projects building on ZetaChain through developer grants, with a major carve out for Bitcoin-focused projects following the halving.
ZetaChain Enters Top 5 Blockchains by Total Weekly Active Users!
ZetaChain’s mission is to serve as a platform for universal access, simplicity, and utility across any blockchain. From entering the top five chains by users and top five Naming Service in one week on SPACE ID to the full day ZetaChain Bitcoin Builder Zone at ETH Seoul and everything in-between, March was a resounding success!
Coinbase launches Learning Rewards and ZetaChain support on Coinbase Wallet to bring omnichain to users
ZetaChain’s mission is to serve as a platform for universal access, simplicity, and utility across any blockchain. Today marks a significant milestone as leading wallet Coinbase Wallet adds support for ZetaChain to launch Learning Rewards quests campaign in Coinbase Wallet. The integration enables Coinbase Wallet users to experience omnichain interoperability across all chains in a simple, fast, and secure way.
Introducing universal web3 ID with the launch of .zeta Name Service with SPACE ID
.zeta universal identities span all of web3, from EVM to Cosmos, BNB and eventually even Bitcoin. Mint your ID and join the BTC Halving Claim Campaign hosted by Galxe!
ZetaChain and Galxe announce BTC drop for next generation Bitcoin Smart Contracts
In the lead-up to Bitcoin Halving, ZetaChain announces the first BTC drop to fuel a new generation of Bitcoin Smart Contracts. Eligible phase 1 users can claim ZETA now first-come, first served! Everyone can join the phase 2 BTC Halving claim through April!
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ZetaChain is both a layer 1 (L1) blockchain and a smart contract platform with built-in connectivity to all blockchains and layers. It is the only public blockchain with smart contracts that can manage assets, data, & liquidity on any chain, even ones that don’t have native smart contract capabilities, like Bitcoin.
Crypto is a rapidly expanding industry. New blockchains and layers are created every day for specific use cases: to improve speed, flexibility, and transaction costs for new applications across DeFi, gaming, social, and many more.
This innovation is exciting, but it also creates fragmentation in the industry for both developers and users. Setting up new wallets, switching networks, and bridging between blockchains and layers is complicated and often rife with security risks.
ZetaChain creates the best of both worlds: it allows innovation in crypto to continue while giving users and developers a simple and secure point of access to every blockchain ecosystem.
ZetaChain acts as a gateway for developers and users: we can connect all of the best new blockchains and layers while bringing advanced smart contract functionality to trusted chains like Bitcoin and Dogecoin.
You can think of ZetaChain as not only an L1 blockchain, but also a functional layer that connects all other blockchains.
What goes on behind the scenes:
- Nodes: Our network nodes observe events (e.g., sending a payment) on external chains, reach consensus on them, and sign off to any connected chain.
- Omnichain smart contracts: Our omnichain smart contracts read these events from and process them out to external chains. These smart contracts are a single source of truth that maintain the state of assets and data across all connected chains.
- Chain-agnostic message passing: Existing smart contracts send data and value across chains and layers with a simple function call.
ZetaChain uses a simpler and more robust trust model, where only our network is trusted to deliver data/value, vs. a third-party. On our decentralized proof-of-stake network, no single node has knowledge of any private key. ZetaChain can sign and hold assets natively, and funds at rest are never at risk. Since we use ZETA as an intermediary token in the process of sending assets, attack surface is minimized, drastically reducing security risk for users.
ZetaChain is truly chain-agnostic and can connect all blockchains and layers, from Ethereum mainnet, L2s and OP Stack chains like Base, to Cosmos chains, and beyond. It even supports non-smart contract chains like Bitcoin and Dogecoin, giving these chains smart contract capabilities that were never before possible.
No other blockchain enables fully interoperable smart contracts and chain-agnostic odApps (omnichain decentralized apps). Because of this, ZetaChain has the unique capability of seamlessly and reliably enabling countless use cases across the entire crypto ecosystem.
We see the future of web3 as a connected one, where developers can build and leverage the power of many networks seamlessly, and users will no longer have to worry about switching or bridging between them. ZetaChain will be an invisible force powering a seamless user experience for all. No more complex jargon and frustrating UX for users - they’ll have one place to access all of their assets and data, and can roam the crypto world smoothly and safely.
Going forward, we see ZetaChain powering an entire ecosystem of odApps across industries: Social, Fashion, Defi - the sky is the limit! This could look like: gamers being able to access their accounts and in-game items from anywhere in the crypto ecosystem, owning and transferring NFTs to and from chains, or sending and receiving payments to and from any wallet, regardless of chain. The possibilities are endless.