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Concentrated Liquidity Pools in ZetaChain v3: Mechanics, Usage, and Benefits
ZetaChain’s gas pools (aka core pools) are a special category of liquidity pools used by the protocol to facilitate cross-chain transactions. Concentrated (v3) Liquidity Pools, on the other hand, are about maximizing capital efficiency for trading and swaps.The two types complement each other: gas pools unify gas liquidity for cross-chain execution, and concentrated pools unify trading liquidity for user-facing swap markets.
ZetaChain’s New Revert Handling for Cross-Chain
ZetaChain’s new onAbort mechanism prevents stuck assets in cross-chain transactions. With onRevert for rollbacks and onAbort as a failsafe, every transaction is either executed or accounted for — ensuring seamless failure recovery without manual intervention.
Introduction to Universal Apps on ZetaChain
ZetaChain is an EVM-compatible blockchain with built-in cross-chain interoperability. A smart contract deployed on ZetaChain can handle incoming contract calls from any connected blockchain like Ethereum, Base, Polygon, BNB, Solana and Bitcoin.
Do we really need Bitcoin L2s?
Regardless of Bitcoin L2 technical limitations, we think the industry should prioritize native BTC programmability and interoperability with assets and users from other chains.
Introducing Localnet & Devnet: Build Universal Apps faster with the newest features!
The new ZetaChain networks significantly enhance the Universal App development experience. A small group of active developers may apply here for early Devnet access.
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.
Athens Testnet and Beyond
ZetaChain’s new long-term testnet, “Athens-3” is now live. The prior development testnet, “Athens-2” will end after a transitional phase.
Omnichain Test Asset Bridge Brings 100,000 Users in 3 Weeks
We introduced Free Testnet Bridge in response to recent parties charging for and speculating on the price of gETH. In the last 3 weeks, we've had 100,000 users on it.
1,000,000 Users on the ZetaChain Testnet
Celebrating 1 million users contributing to ZetaChain's testnet, today we re view some key stats to date as ZetaChain advances closer to its highly awaited mainnet launch.
Get free gETH on ZetaChain
ZetaChain is proud to announce a free way for developers and users to get gETH. With Free Testnet Bridge, ZetaChain provides a free, open marketplace to acquire and convert any test asset for your project development.
400,000 Users on the ZetaChain Testnet
ZetaChain continues to experience hyper-growth across its testnet and community as the crypto market shows significant demand for better blockchain connectivity.
150,000 Users on the ZetaChain Testnet in 30 Days
The ZetaChain testnet and community experienced unprecedented growth last month. All crypto users may join the testnet now to experience and contribute to the future of multichain.
ZetaChain Tech Upgrades: Building Towards Omnichain Interoperability
Continuous enhancements to ZetaChain’s DevX and blockchain code gives rise to the first omnichain dApps on the horizon. Visit our docs at docs.zetachain.com and partner with ZetaChain to help develop and launch your omnichain project.
Introducing Omnichain Accounts
Omnichain Accounts can manage funds and data across any blockchain. The feature enables cold-wallet-level security with hot-level-wallet functionality and effectively adds a smart contract layer on non-smart contract platforms such as Bitcoin.