ZRO token increased 11% in price, leading top movers in the crypto market on February 27, 2026.

Facilitated large PYUSD transfers from Ethereum to Arbitrum in the past 24 hours, with PYUSD supply on Arbitrum reaching $473M as of February 2026.

Used as a bridge in an exploit where stolen FOOM tokens were transferred from Base to Ethereum network, enabling the attacker to convert approximately $332K worth of assets.

CEO and Co-founder appears on FOMO Hour on 2026-02-26 to discuss Zero Chain, chain launch, and crypto market.

Integrated with Initia's native stablecoin iUSD and AUSD, enabling cross-chain bridging and value capture for the Initia ecosystem.

Partners with Arbitrum for NYC Founder House March 6-8, 2026, with application deadline February 28, 2026.

Formed RealFi Alliance with Centrifuge and Chainlink.

Launched Zero chain, outlined 2026 vision.

Uses revenue to fund token buybacks as part of its token economic model.

Generates meaningful revenue from Stargate and is projected to reach approximately $30MM annualized revenue once the LayerZero messaging fee switch is activated.

ZRO will be the staking asset and gas asset within Zero, with all excess fees from priority fees, tips/MEV, trading fees from the markets zone, and payment fees from the payment zone flowing to ZRO holders.

ZRO supply comprises institutional purchases, buyouts of early investors, and buybacks, totaling 19.77% of total supply, including 20% of investor overhang.

Powers peaq Escrow, enabling robots and machines to become ERC-8004 compatible omnichain actors through LayerZero integration.

Powers Zircuit Finance's institutional credit yield platform, which launched with 8-11% APR targets and liquidity buffers through Fidelity MMF, Aave, and Morpho.

Integrated with Ondo Bridge for cross-chain verification using Fidelity Center for Applied Technology's DVN for tokenized asset transfers, providing institutional-grade verification.

Scheduled livestream interview with LayerZero team on February 17, 2026 at 7pm GMT hosted by blocmatesdotcom.

Unlocks 25.71M ZRO tokens ($42M), representing 5.98% of supply, on February 20, 2026.

OFT standard powered $44 billion in cross-chain asset bridging, including $7.4 billion in Aave tokens representing 18.5% of Aave's TVL.

Has 168 chains and 700+ apps already integrated with its cross-chain messaging infrastructure.

Price declined 16% from $2.22 to $1.86 on February 13th, 2026.

Acquired 60,400 ZRO tokens worth $116,000 by public figure holder @Jonbros01.

Partners with Cardano for $80 billion omnichain assets, launching USDCx, a ZK-powered stablecoin, connecting to 150+ blockchains.

58% of ZRO supply remains internally allocated to team, investors, and strategic partners, with circulating float being small.

ZRO serves as the staking and gas token for Zero L1 with near-zero transaction fees by design, no burn mechanism, no fee accrual to token holders, and staking rewards from standard PoS inflation.

Alameda Research transferred 11.142 million ZRO tokens, $21.5 million, to Wintermute on February 13th, 2026, with 3-4 million ZRO sent to exchanges and 7 million ZRO remaining from sales over the past few weeks.

Arca accumulated 437K ZRO tokens in a 24-hour period ending February 12, 2026.

Accumulated $1.02M in net inflows from Smart Money wallets over 24 hours across Ethereum, Solana, Base, and BNB Chain, with 1 trader participating.

Integrated Beyond Tech for Bitcoin L1 connection to over 80 chains via OFT standard, supporting 500 tokens, with announcement 2026-02-24.

Offers STG to ZRO token conversion at a fixed rate of 1 STG = 0.08634 ZRO, following Stargate acquisition for $110M in August 2025. Completed burn of all remaining STG tokens held by the DAO.

A whale accumulated a $7.5M long position in ZRO after rotating out of HYPE and LIT.

Facilitated $70 billion in cross-chain USDT0 transfers over 12 months across 18 chains.

Guiding towards $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2026.

Ranked second in weekly mindshare growth with a 0.67% increase on CoinGecko.

Achieved over $50 billion in quarterly transfer volume.

Entered into a data partnership with Token Terminal.

Executed buyback of 50 million ZRO tokens (5% of total supply) from early investors in September 2025, valued at approximately $95-150 million.

Repurchased 4% of TGE supply at launch to reduce circulating tokens.

Hit the open interest cap for ZRO on Hyperliquid.

Partnered with GTE for Turbo treasury layer, enabling deposits, withdrawals, and final settlement.

Deployed QMDB, a log-based append-only storage structure achieving 3 million updates per second, replacing Merkle Tries.

Deployed physical verification nodes represented by small box hardware units.

Integrated with Robinhood Chain public testnet, launched February 10, 2026, for AML and security infrastructure.

Partnered with PrimordialAA and PaikCapital to build a decentralized 24/7 exchange.

Validates one month of Ethereum's history in 27 seconds.

Powers bridging support for AZTEC token through Stargate Finance integration.

Added Cathie Wood (ARK Invest), Michael Blaugrund (ICE), and Caroline Butler (ex-BNY) to advisory board.

Citadel Securities and Ark Invest acquired ZRO tokens and equity in LayerZero Labs.

Settled over $200 billion of value across the protocol.

Partnered with DTCC for DTC tokenization service using Zero architecture.

Secured ZRO token investment from Citadel Securities, ARK Invest, and Tether; received equity investment from Tether on February 10, 2026. ZRO token price spiked 10%.

Partnered with DTCC, ICE, NYSE, Citadel, Tether, Ark, and Google Cloud. Citadel purchased ZRO tokens. Google Cloud explores AI micropayments. Revealed a novel blockchain.

The LayerZero Foundation made recent purchases of ZRO tokens.

Tether holds an undisclosed amount of ZRO tokens in its treasury.

a16z made recent purchases of ZRO tokens.

Integrated into Tether's WDK (Wallet Development Kit) to provide cross-chain messaging and unified liquidity infrastructure for wallets, payment systems, and AI agent payment layers.

Token unlocks occur at a rate of 2.5% of total supply per month.

Received investment from Tether Investments, bringing total funds raised to $320M after a $55M round in April 2025.

Mentioned as a cross-chain rail that enables agents to move value freely across chains alongside Axelar in a thread about AI agent infrastructure.

ZRO token price declined 31% from $2.34 to $1.60 on February 10, 2026, with FDV at $1.6B as of February 20, 2026. $ZERO is the only asset for LayerZero, with no new token planned.

Launched Zero, a ZK-based L1 blockchain, February 13, 2026, with 2M transactions per second and $0.000001 transaction fees. ZRO token increased 35% by Citadel Securities and ARK Invest; mainnet launch fall 2026.

Experiences token unlock cliff by February 23, 2026, part of over $321M total market unlocks. Includes $43M ZRO unlocking February 16-22, 2026, with $41.13M ZRO available that week, impacting investor allocations from OKX Ventures, Coinbase, Spartan, YZi, and Sequoia.

Conducts monthly ZRO token buybacks using 50% of Stargate revenue, purchased 1.13M ZRO tokens (0.11% of supply) at $1.63M September-December 2025. Buybacks generate $5M/year, representing a 0.3% yield against a $1.8B fully diluted valuation.

Protocol fee switch governance proposals failed June 2025 (13% quorum) and December 2025 (insufficient quorum); next vote scheduled for June 2026.

Hosted an event on 2026-02-11 featuring Ray Kurzweil.

Plans Zero L1 blockchain for Fall 2026 launch, featuring 1M+ TPS, ZK proofs, and a multi-core heterogeneous architecture. Includes QMDB (3M updates/sec), FAFO (1.2M EVM TPS), Jolt Pro (1.61 GHz/cell), SVID (10 GB/s throughput), and ZRO DAO Proof-of-Stake.

Added trading support on Robinhood Crypto.

Representatives speak at the Optimism Scaling Summit in Denver, streamed worldwide on 2026-02-05.

Integrated with Irys on February 5th, 2026, enabling cross-chain transfers of IRYS token between Irys mainnet, Ethereum, and BNB Chain.

Faces token unlock event for 25.71 million ZRO tokens on February 20, 2026, representing ~6.36% of circulating supply (~$60M worth).

Runs a Whop campaign that pays creators for content about the protocol's technology.

Operates as a Super Validator on Canton Network with Weight 3 in the Interoperability category

Completed audit for Starknet Endpoint, with report published by code4rena.

Demonstrated strong market performance among large-cap tokens in the period ending January 27, 2026.

A WLFI advisor purchased 33,411 ZRO tokens for $50K in spot buys approximately two weeks before January 23, 2026.

Experienced a 500% increase in whale activity on Arbitrum during the week of January 16-23, 2026 compared to the previous week.

Has a one-time token unlock exceeding $5 million scheduled within the 7 days following January 19, 2026.

v2 replaces vulnerable multisig bridges with native messaging for cross-chain interoperability

Reached 700+ assets building on the protocol.

Co-authored a blog post with _patrickogrady about embedded VRFs (Verifiable Random Functions) design.

Integrated with Coinbase's x402 protocol to enable HTTP-based stablecoin payments without wallets.

Enables instant cross-chain stablecoin transfers via CCTP, LayerZero, and Wormhole integrations.

Integrated with Beldex (BDX) to enable omnichain functionality for the BDX token.

Operates with a $15 million bug bounty program.

USDt0 facilitated over $70 billion in cross-chain value transfers in less than 12 months.

Projected to reach $100 million ARR in 2026.

RAVE token integrated LayerZero's OFT Standard, enabling cross-chain transfers across Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base through Stargate.

Ranks 8th globally in value transfer, ahead of Western Union.

Integrated TRON with Base, enabling TRX access on Base DEXs and expanding cross-chain interoperability.

Powers the global settlement network deployment on Base chain through its core infrastructure.

Collaborated with Ondo Finance to build the Ondo Bridge, enabling cross-chain transfers of 100+ tokenized stocks and ETFs between Ethereum and BNB Chain

KYO token goes live on Stargate, enabling cross-chain transfers between Soneium, Ethereum, and BNB Chain at a 1:1 rate with no slippage.

Main competitor Axelar's core team departs after Circle acquisition, leaving only the network behind, as LayerZero emerges as the dominant winner in the interoperability sector competition.

25.71 million tokens unlock on December 20, representing 6.79% of total supply.

Fee switch and token burn mechanism launch within the next few days.

$37.42M worth of $ZRO tokens scheduled to unlock next week, representing the second largest unlock amount among all major tokens.

LayerZero deploys new update on Reya (reya_xyz) enabling cross-chain transfers for REYA tokens without traditional bridging.

LayerZero enables WBTC on Sui blockchain, opening a new cross-chain route that brings Bitcoin liquidity to the Sui ecosystem with multiple Sui products already integrated.

Selected as canonical interoperability provider for Stable with major asset expansion including USDT, Frax Finance, Thena Network, and Ether.fi; QMDB technology adopted by Commonware and being integrated by Tempo.

Hex Trust launches Wrapped XRP (wXRP) as a 1:1 XRP-backed token issued on LayerZero, bringing native XRP to DeFi across multiple chains with initial rollout on Solana.

Beyond Tech launches using LayerZero technology for Bitcoin L1 infrastructure, featuring an 87-day construction period with wallchain integration.