ZETA

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ZetaChain

Networks · Interoperability+1

ZETA#396

Mcap$60.48M

$0.03685.50%

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Spot Volume (24H)

$5.81M+22.04%

Marketcap

$60.48M

FDV

$76.71M

Mindshare

Very Low

Metrics (24H)

1 Notable Posts

Circ. Supply

1.7B

Sentiment

24H

Max Supply

2.1B

Mcap/FDV

78.84%

Total Supply

2.1B

Sector Ranking

#90

Futures Volume

$53.62M

Open Interest

$5.51M

Funding Rate

0.0052%

Volatility (30D)

51.1%

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$679.33K (19.2M ZETA)

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ZetaChain links different blockchains and layers, providing a unified platform for asset and data management across these networks. Its focus is on interoperability, leveraging omnichain smart contracts to bridge various blockchain ecosystems.

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Networks

Sector Rank

#90

Sub-Sector

Layer-1

Sub-Sector Rank

#64, #7

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Charlie Pyle

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1Y Price Performance -69.00%

All Time High

$2.84-98.71%

Feb 15, 2024

Cycle Low

$0.0266+38.28%

Aug 14, 2026

First Trade

Feb 01, 2024 on

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$0.0368

29.23% Past Month

Price

$0.036829.23%

Mindshare

0.1%619.09%

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Spot Volume (24H)

$5.81M+22.04%

Marketcap

$60.48M

Mindshare

Very Low

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Last Updated: Oct-29-2026 11:37 UTC

ZetaChain Project Update

Get Caught Up

ZetaChain 2.0 on the Horizon. ZetaChain closed out 2025 with a recap highlighting that it scaled to over 11.5 million unique users and 225 million transactions, secured backing from major technology companies including Google Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, and Alibaba, and achieved universal integration with the top 10 blockchains by adding support for Arbitrum, Avalanche, and Sui 1. The recap also signaled that the next major phase, ZetaChain 2.0, would be detailed in January 2026, making it the key upcoming milestone to watch 1.

Positioning Against Cross-Chain Competitors. ZetaChain published a technical comparison positioning itself against Wormhole, describing itself as a purpose-built Layer 1 (a base blockchain that secures its own network) that reaches consensus on external chain events and executes cross-chain smart contracts natively through its Universal EVM 2. The article emphasized that ZetaChain's security relies on on-chain validator consensus and Threshold Signature Schemes (TSS — a cryptographic method where multiple parties jointly sign transactions without any single party holding the full key), with economic staking and slashing, and that it offers direct native support for interacting with Bitcoin 2.

Advocating the "Universal" Model. In a separate piece, ZetaChain contrasted its architecture with established cross-chain Layer 1s like Polkadot, Cosmos, and Internet Computer, arguing for a "universal" model in which Universal Smart Contracts deployed on its EVM can interact with any network without separate bridge trust assumptions 3. A notable economic feature it highlighted is that incoming cross-chain calls are gas-less, and it positions cross-chain development as being as simple as single-chain development using familiar Solidity tools 3.

Biggest Stories of 2025

ZetaChain 2025 Recap published, reporting 11.5 million unique users, 225 million transactions, backing from Google Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, and Alibaba, universal integration with the top 10 blockchains, and the Lightning and UNISON upgrades, while teasing ZetaChain 2.0 for January 2026 (December 22, 2025) 1.
ZetaClient v37.0.4 released, a breaking change enabling EVM inbounds to support multiple calls inside the same transaction, requiring EVM Gateway contracts to be upgraded before the node upgrade and an additional action fee to be set (December 14, 2025) 4.
ZetaChain v36.1.5 released, designated exclusively for RPC nodes and not validator nodes, updating effectiveGasPrice calculation logic for RPC transaction receipts and fixing transaction log re-indexing when duplicate log indexes are present (December 18, 2025) 5.
"ZetaChain vs. Cross-Chain Layer 1s: Why the Future Is Universal" published, contrasting ZetaChain's Observer-Signer Validators and TSS model with Polkadot, Cosmos, and ICP, and emphasizing gas-less incoming cross-chain calls and atomic cross-chain execution (December 2, 2025) 3.
"ZetaChain vs. Wormhole: A Technical Comparison for Developers" published, positioning ZetaChain as a purpose-built Layer 1 with native Bitcoin support and unified state versus Wormhole's off-chain Guardian attestation model (November 20, 2025) 2.
ZetaChain v36.0.2 released, fixing a backport to force a rescan if inbound vote monitoring fails using a context that can timeout (September 17, 2025) 6.
ZetaChain v36.0.0 released, including a testnet upgrade at block height 12,514,000 and a mainnet upgrade at block height 10,713,000 estimated for September 16, 2025, and making the gas limit used for gateway calls on ZEVM a configurable parameter (September 3, 2025) 7.
ZetaChain v35.0.0 released, introducing conditional logic to add the ERC20 module based on the chain ID (August 27, 2025) 8.
ZetaChain v34.1.0 released, updating Solana withdrawal and call handling to cancel transactions exceeding maximum size limits, updating the RPC backend to use the EVM chain ID from Ethereum configuration, and enhancing fallback transaction logic for Solana transaction size errors (August 14, 2025) 9.
ZetaChain v32.0.4 released, refactoring the backport to enable Bitcoin inscription parsing on mainnet (July 21, 2025) 10.
Lightning (v31) upgrade details shared, reducing block finality from six seconds to four seconds by adjusting CometBFT consensus parameters with a stated target of approximately two seconds, adding mainnet support for Solana smart contract interactions via withdrawAndCall, adding testnet support for the TON blockchain, and introducing TSS signature caching, global TSS rate limiting, Bitcoin Replace-by-Fee (RBF) support, and enhanced Solana instruction parsing (June 19, 2025) 11.
Lightning (v31) upgrade activated on ZetaChain mainnet (June 12, 2025) 12.
ZetaChain v31.0.1 released, containing a breaking change adding an optional revert_options parameter to all Solana inbounds, requiring the Solana Gateway program to be upgraded after the node upgrade, and setting the ZETA protocol fee to 0 (June 4, 2025) 13.
ZetaChain v31.0.0 released, including a testnet upgrade at block height 10,638,400 contingent on Proposal 100, with payload parsing for Sui withdrawAndCall, support for Sui withdrawAndCall using the PTB transaction, and a ZETA protocol fee set to 0 (June 2, 2025) 14.
ZetaChain v27.0.5 released, a zetaclient-only release disabling observation of direct-to-TSS-address deposits on the Arbitrum and Avalanche networks (February 19, 2025) 15.
ZetaChain v27.0.2 released, a zetaclient-only release fixing the EVM healthcheck to reduce log spam and using the chain name in metrics (February 6, 2025) 16.
ZetaChain v26.0.0 released, adding a liquidity cap parameter to ZRC20 creation, adding Avalanche, Arbitrum, and World Chain to the chain info, and adding support to perform withdrawals in the ZetaChain onRevert call (January 21, 2025) 17.
ZetaChain v25.0.0 released, adding a signer_block_time_offset field in OperationalFlags, adding Solana E2E performance tests, implementing a scheduler for zetaclient, enforcing the checksum format for asset addresses in ZRC20, revamping the TSS package in zetaclient, and setting the per-transaction gas limit to 10M (January 9, 2025) 18.

Note: No ZetaChain-specific developments were identified within the past 7 or 30 days, so the "Currently Interesting" and "Get Caught Up" sections reflect the most recent available items from late 2025.