{
  "url": "https://blockindex.ai/coin/zeta",
  "name": "ZetaChain",
  "links": {
    "github": "https://github.com/zeta-chain/audit-reports",
    "website": "https://zetachain.com/",
    "whitepaper": "https://www.zetachain.com/whitepaper.pdf"
  },
  "dScore": 33,
  "market": {
    "priceUsd": 0.0365163244603932,
    "marketCapUsd": 53356816.45691889,
    "volume24hUsd": 4497456.71270053,
    "priceChange7dPct": -6.14557474,
    "priceChange24hPct": -2.1314095
  },
  "source": "BlockIndex.AI",
  "supply": {
    "max": 2100000000,
    "circulating": 1461177083,
    "circulatingPct": 69.57986109523809
  },
  "ticker": "ZETA",
  "founder": "Charlie Pyle",
  "vcFunded": true,
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-19T06:00:13.670605+00:00",
  "fairLaunch": false,
  "launchYear": null,
  "description": "ZetaChain is a Universal Layer-1 blockchain built to enable native, cross-chain smart contracts and frictionless asset transfers across major ecosystems including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and others. The project positions itself as an interoperability-native L1 that allows developers to \"build once, launch everywhere,\" supporting atomic cross-chain operations without requiring wrapped tokens or intermediary bridge routing. ZetaChain emphasizes a developer-first experience through ZetaClient tooling and comprehensive documentation, and markets universal smart contract semantics and unified liquidity as its core differentiators. The provided materials present ZetaChain as a platform designed to remove multi-chain fragmentation by providing native connectivity and consistent contract behavior across disparate chains.\n\nTechnically, ZetaChain is described as a Cosmos SDK/Tendermint-based Proof-of-Stake network that targets low-latency block times (the project references movement toward ~2-second block times) and native omnichain execution. Key technical features highlighted across the sources include native cross-chain smart contracts (which let a single contract operate across multiple chains), atomic cross-chain transfers that avoid conventional wrapping, and the ZetaClient upgrade that introduces single-transaction multi-deposits and improved cross-chain execution. The stack appears focused on interoperability primitives, with emphasis on EVM inbound improvements, multi-chain inbounds, and developer tooling to simplify integration for Universal Apps.\n\nThe ecosystem and real-world applications emphasize decentralized finance and cross-chain utilities. Featured ecosystem projects include a native DEX (Zuno), farming and DeFi products (Luca, Accumulated Finance), and consumer-facing utilities (Randombag). On-chain usage metrics asserted by the project indicate substantial scale: the site claims 11.6M+ unique addresses, 228M+ transactions and 1.8M+ community members, and market data lists ~88.45K holders. Market snapshots included an All-Time High on Feb 15, 2024 and significant volatility thereafter. These metrics suggest meaningful developer and user activity, and the presence of the token on major centralized exchanges improves liquidity and access for users and institutions.\n\nTokenomics for ZETA are presented as a capped-supply design: a maximum supply of 2.1 billion ZETA and a circulating supply reported at roughly 1.169B (≈55.68% of max supply) in the provided market snapshots. A contract record (0xf091...2e9cc8) appears in market data for tracking purposes. The supplied materials do not disclose a premine percentage, public initial percentage (PIP), or detailed vesting/allocation tables in the provided excerpts; those distribution details are marked as missing and would need to be confirmed by the project’s formal tokenomics documentation. Staking and reward details are also not present in the supplied sources, though the PoS architecture implies on-chain staking and validator-based security.\n\nGovernance and organizational information in the available materials is limited. The sources imply an organizational presence behind ZetaChain (a company page is referenced on the official site) and list investors/strategic backers, indicating VC funding. The documents do not provide an explicit CEO name or a fully described on-chain DAO governance mechanism in the extracted content. Likewise, no formal regulatory actions or enforcement events are described. Release notes and client versions (multiple releases in 2025) indicate active development cadence and ongoing protocol evolution; governance mechanisms, treasury control, and token-holder voting structures require additional on-chain documentation to be fully characterized.",
  "methodology": "https://blockindex.ai/dscore",
  "classification": {
    "layer": "Layer 1",
    "isToken": false,
    "consensus": "PoS",
    "parentChain": null
  },
  "dScoreComponents": {
    "autonomy": 5,
    "ageHistory": 11,
    "governance": 12,
    "nodeDistribution": 5,
    "initialDistribution": 0
  },
  "decentralizationVerdict": "Centralized Leaning"
}