ZetaChain

ZetaChain (ZETA) is an innovative Layer 1 blockchain with built-in chain-agnostic interoperability. It supports a variety of blockchains, including EVM-compatible, Cosmos/IBC, Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Tron. Developers utilize ZetaChain's messaging capabilities to transmit data and native value between any chains without wrapping assets. Additionally, it plans to support native smart contracts enabling developers to create omnichain decentralized applications (dApps) that manage funds across multiple chains from a single contract.

About the Founders

The founder of ZetaChain was an early employee at Coinbase and one of the creators of Basic Attention Token (BAT). The project has attracted investment from major market makers, top exchanges and early employees at Coinbase and Binance such as Dan Romero, Sam Rosenblum, and John Yi. Key contributors to widely adopted protocols and well-known funds like Polygon’s JD Kanani are also among the investors. Advisors include Nathalie McGrath, Coinbase’s first Head of People who scaled the company from 10 to over 800 employees, and Juan Suarez who served as in-house counsel at Coinbase from 2013 to 2022.

Unique Features of ZetaChain

ZetaChain stands out for its ability to connect everything. It facilitates interoperability between any blockchains or layers by providing cross-chain value transfer and message delivery along with native omnichain smart contract support. Applications developed on ZetaChain—omnichain dApps (odApps)—can access liquidity and data on multiple networks while reading and updating state on all connected networks.

ZetaChain’s native omnichain smart contract platform simplifies deployment of contracts for developers just like developing dApps for a single network like Ethereum but orchestrates data and value across many or all chains. Its connectivity is chain-agnostic, enabling it to connect to and bring smart contract capabilities even to non-smart-contract chains like Bitcoin and Dogecoin.

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