what's layerzero?
LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that enables cross-chain applications through a low-level communication primitive. It facilitates the secure and efficient transfer of messages, assets, and data between different blockchain networks, supporting both public and private chains. The protocol powers various DeFi applications, including fast swaps and staking mechanisms, as seen in integrations with projects like Stargate Finance and Pendle. LayerZero's design emphasizes developer control over security configurations, allowing for customized oracle and relayer verifications. With over $50 billion in transactional volume, it serves as a foundational layer for building interoperable Web3 ecosystems.
LayerZero bridged Bittensor to Hyperliquid via Mentat Minds; also integrated for River cross-chain.
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Mentat Minds bridged Bittensor to Hyperliquid via LayerZero integration.
Integrated into Stargate to enable cross-chain functionality for River protocol across Ethereum, Base, and BNB Chain during Q1 2026.
Stargate Finance completed a buyback of 126,612 ZRO tokens in March 2026, bringing total buybacks to date to 1,621,651 ZRO, and now directs 100% of Stargate revenue to ZRO buybacks.
Unlocks scheduled for April 2026 with 32.2% of supply allocated to early investors (VCs).
Increased 17.6% to $2.05 on April 8, 2026, ranking as the 5th top gainer.
Borderless Capital accumulated 223,000 ZRO tokens from Wintermute during the week of March 25, 2026.
Worldpay/Global Payments launched Payments DVN (Decentralized Verifier Network) as a cross-chain payment message verifier across 165+ chains, bringing a $3.7T-scale global acquirer and regulated financial institution on-chain.
Smart Money wallets increased their ZRO balance by 50.63% over a 7-day period ending on 2026-04-01, while Whale wallets increased their balance by 70.39% during the same timeframe.
Begins Stellar Endpoint audit competition on 2026-04-01 with $101,000 prize pool, ending 2026-04-14.
Unlocks 25.71 million ZRO tokens valued at $52.19M (5.34% of float) on April 20, 2026.
Transferred 7.93M ZRO (~$15.48M) from Alameda Research to Wintermute in the 12 hours prior to March 31, 2026, bringing total transfers to 38.79M ZRO (~$75.41M) over the preceding three months.
Transferred 4.126 million ZRO tokens ($8.17 million) from an FTX/Alameda wallet to Wintermute on 2026-03-30, with the source wallet still holding 30.75 million ZRO ($58.12 million), representing approximately 10% of current circulating supply.
BasedOneX bridged BASED token from Hyperliquid to Ethereum and BSC for CEX deposits, leveraging LayerZero's OFT (Omnichain Fungible Token) standard for native transferability across chains, effective March 30th, 2026, via Stargate Finance.
OFT adoption grew 173% year-over-year in Q4 2025.
OFT volume surpassed traditional bridge volume for the first time in April 2025.
703+ applications deployed on LayerZero infrastructure as of Q4 2025.
ZRO token was among the top movers with +1% price performance on March 27, 2026.
Powers the native cross-chain expansion of XAUT to BNB Chain with support from Binance, enabling omnichain movement of the gold-backed token.
Removed 75.72M ZRO tokens from circulation in 2025 through buybacks, representing 16.7% of circulating supply.
Included in Grayscale's Q1 2026 Top 20 list with $0.5B market cap, ranked second best-performing in Q1 2026 with +65% price growth. Listed by Grayscale as an asset under consideration for Q2 2026.
ZRO led top movers with a 9% price increase on March 24, 2026.
18 wallets accumulated $79.7M worth of ZRO tokens (3.78% of total supply) from Coinbase Prime.
Integrated with Cardano.
Supports the open-source OWS (Open Wallet Standard) project built by MoonPay alongside PayPal, OKX, Ripple, and other major blockchain and fintech entities.
Expanded to Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Base, Optimism, and HyperEVM on March 19th, 2026, enabling products JTRSY, JAAA, and SPXA to operate across these chains.
Provides cross-chain infrastructure enabling TRON's TRX token integration with Base's DeFi ecosystem through the TRX/USDC trading pair on Aerodrome DEX.
Powers Katana's deployment on Base chain, enabling cross-chain access via Stargate Finance.
Referenced in speculation about Beyond Tech potentially using LayerZero for Bitcoin connectivity on 2026-04-05, with claims about infrastructure preparation and airdrop planning, but no confirmed event or partnership announcement.
Enables native frxUSD integration on Tempo chain at launch through LayerZero infrastructure.
Ranked as the #1 tech startup in Canada.
Whale continues to accumulate $47.5M (24.5M ZRO, 2.6% of supply) across 9 wallets at $1.94 average entry price, with no sells recorded.
Integrated with Curve Finance's FastBridge and Fraxtal, enabling crvUSD transfers from Arbitrum, Optimism, and Fraxtal to Ethereum in ~15 minutes, removing 7-day withdrawal delay.
Powers USDT0 (Tether minted directly on Mantle) cross-chain messaging infrastructure, enabling burn-and-mint transfers.
Integrated with Sui, enabling cross-chain movement of Bitcoin-based assets and driving TVL expansion for those assets.
Integrated with TON, bringing USDT0 to Telegram's user base.
Integrated with Aptos and Starknet, connecting Move and StarkVM architectures to LayerZero rails.
Achieved all-time quarterly high in transfer volume in Q4 2025, representing a 774% year-over-year increase.
Integrated with Hedera to enable USDT0 omnichain stablecoin liquidity and crosschain dollar movements on the Hedera network.
Featured in a Messari valuation report published in 2026, one of five projects analyzed by Messari research to start the year.
Integrated with Canton Network as validator and interoperability protocol, connecting institutional RWA volume to 165+ public chains as of Q4 2025, and is a Canton Foundation member.
Attended FIA Boca conference in March 2026 alongside crypto and traditional finance players.
Handled $500M-$1B daily bridge volume and 57% of crosschain messaging volume, with activity increasing through April 8, 2026.
A core team member (0xLamps) departed after 3 years working on Stargate and LayerZero, including involvement in approximately 80 chain launches.
Provides infrastructure for Perena's cross-chain operations, enabling their RWA vault and stablebank token to connect across multiple chains and facilitate liquidity access for users on Solana.
Raised $55 million through a token buy and earlier funding rounds, with a Series B valuation of $3 billion.
ZRO token has a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $1.9 billion.
Citadel is buying ZRO tokens.
Received investment from Tether, Citadel Securities, and ARK Invest on February 10, 2026, to support USDT distribution.
Processed 26% of transfers between Ethereum and Katana in the past 24 hours, totaling approximately $31.17M in bridged volume.
Experienced the third-highest percentage increase in $100K+ whale transactions on its network over the past month according to onchain data.
Unlocks 25.70M ZRO tokens ($53.86M, 5.64% of circulating supply) on March 20, 2026 for strategic partners and core contributors.
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. Integrated into an Arbitrum Open House hackathon project on March 8, 2026, alongside Alchemy, Dune Analytics, GMX, Robinhood, and Fhenix, creating an interactive pixel city visualization.
Partnered with Centrifuge and Chainlink for RealFi Alliance to expand multichain access for tokenized RWAs.
Launched standalone L1 blockchain Zero, featuring three parallel zones (EVM, privacy payments, trading) designed for 2M TPS per zone, and partnered with Citadel Securities, Google Cloud, ICE, Tether, DTCC as Day Zero partners.
Directs 100% of revenue to ZRO buybacks starting April 2026; buybacks offset 37.55% of circulating supply.
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.
Enabled cross-chain verification for tokenized asset transfers with Ondo Bridge using Fidelity DVN, and onchain ownership checks for NFT minting operations between Ethereum mainnet and Base.
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.
Moved $75 billion in volume for asset issuers including Tether.
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.
Allocates 58% of ZRO supply internally to team, investors, and strategic partners, creating a small circulating float; team prefers funds and institutions buy ZRO on the open market with no special deals or discounts.
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.
Repurchased 4% of TGE supply at launch to reduce circulating tokens.
Executed buyback of 50 million ZRO tokens (5% of total supply) from early investors in September 2025, valued at approximately $95-150 million.
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, ICE, NYSE, Citadel, Tether, Ark, and Google Cloud. Citadel purchased ZRO tokens. Google Cloud explores AI micropayments. Revealed a novel blockchain.