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Avalanche Joins ZetaChain — The First Universal Blockchain

Apr 28, 2025

ZetaChain Team

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TL;DR Avalanche is now live on ZetaChain! Use Avalanche in ZetaHub — your portal to the Universal Blockchain. Build Universal Apps that natively span Avalanche, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more from a single contract.

At ZetaChain, our mission is to build a Universal Blockchain with native access to any blockchain, making crypto as accessible, diverse, and connected as the internet. With Universal Apps, developers can build once and launch everywhere. Today, we’re excited to announce full mainnet support for Avalanche, bringing its fast, scalable ecosystem into ZetaChain’s world of seamless, native cross-chain connectivity.

Avalanche Joins the Universal Blockchain

Over 1.4 million active Avalanche users can now access Universal Apps — single smart contracts on ZetaChain that interact natively with any chain, including BTC, ETH, SOL, and more. Users can also tap into Avalanche’s native dApp ecosystem right from their preferred wallet without switching networks.

Check out our latest Universal Chain support roadmap to see what’s coming next.

Why Avalanche?

Avalanche is a fast and highly scalable EVM Layer 1 thanks to its unique consensus mechanism. ZetaChain brings AVAX and Avalanche-based tokens into a unified cross-chain experience (Gateway). For the first time, you can build dApps that span Avalanche and major chain ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana — all from a single smart contract.

By connecting Avalanche to the ZetaChain ecosystem, we future-proof your apps: whether Avalanche develops new architectures, novel DeFi projects, or new token standards, ZetaChain can incorporate them without requiring each dApp to rebuild bridging logic from scratch.

Learn more about how ZetaChain integrated Avalanche.

A Real Example: Beam DEX Enables Native AVAX-BTC Swaps

Developers are already building Universal Apps that make the most of Avalanche’s ZetaChain integration. For example, Beam DEX is a new app that enables native AVAX to BTC swaps using ZetaChain’s Universal EVM — no bridges, no wrapping, no network switching. Watch the demo here.

This is just the beginning: with ZetaChain, AVAX users can interact with native Bitcoin liquidity directly, while Bitcoin holders can access Avalanche-based DeFi without ever leaving their preferred Bitcoin wallet.

Use Avalanche in ZetaHub

Avalanche is now fully supported in ZetaHub — your portal to the Universal Blockchain. ZetaHub has 518K+ monthly users and processed over 85,000 transactions in the last 24 hours (DappRadar). View Holdings, Pool Liquidity, and Send Assets.

You can now View, Pool, and Send assets on Avalanche in ZetaHub.

Your Avalanche assets now work seamlessly across the entire ZetaChain-connected ecosystem. Developers building our ecosystem of Universal Apps can instantly turn on Avalanche support. Users can connect from Avalanche and interact with assets and apps on any chain.

Easily build for Avalanche and other diverse chains

For Developers:

  • Build Universal Apps that support native AVAX and Avalanche-based tokens.

  • Natively interact with contracts on Ethereum, Solana, BTC, and Avalanche.

  • Use ZetaChain’s Universal EVM to simplify logic and avoid custom bridges.

For Users:

  • Use BTC, ETH, or USDC on Avalanche-based dApps directly from other chains.

  • Swap, send, and interact cross-chain without token wrapping and multiple steps.

  • Enjoy a fast, seamless cross-chain UX thanks to Avalanche’s performance and ZetaChain’s Universal EVM.

As ZetaChain adds more chains, your apps automatically gain new liquidity and users from the most important blockchain ecosystems. Future-proof your dApps with ZetaChain.

Visit the ZetaDocs to learn more and get started building Universal Apps.

About ZetaChain

ZetaChain is the first Universal Blockchain with native access to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more, offering seamless user experience and unified liquidity to the next billions of users. With its Universal EVM, ZetaChain empowers developers to build Universal Apps that operate natively across any blockchain, creating a fluid crypto ecosystem from a single platform.

Follow ZetaChain on Twitter @zetablockchain and join the conversation on Discord and Telegram. Reach out to [email protected] if you’re building on top of ZetaChain.

Any projects mentioned are 3rd party, not ZetaChain.

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