LayerZero Labs launches Zero, a Layer 1 blockchain backed by Citadel Securities and Ark Invest, and partners with DTCC and Google Cloud to drive adoption
Zero takes that infrastructure arc into the Layer 1 market, with market-infrastructure and cloud partners attached to its adoption effort. That makes the announcement less about another standalone chain and more about whether LayerZero can translate institutional relationships into deployment.
The partnerships give Zero a clearer route to engage financial-market and cloud-infrastructure participants than LayerZero’s earlier interoperability product alone.
Second-order effects
Other Layer 1 and interoperability providers will face greater pressure to demonstrate institutional distribution and operational partners, not just developer activity or token-market support.
For financial-market firms and cloud providers, participation creates an option to shape how blockchain infrastructure is introduced to their customers and counterparties.
Third-order effects
If such partnerships produce real deployments, competition in blockchain infrastructure could shift toward platforms that combine technical networks with established financial and cloud distribution.
The announcement is one test of the crypto legitimacy gap: institutional affiliations may lower adoption barriers, but sustained use will determine whether they become durable infrastructure advantages.
The trend: Blockchain infrastructure companies are increasingly seeking institutional and cloud partners to turn protocol technology into deployable financial-market infrastructure.
This is stunning Literally one of the coolest things I have read since I entered this crazy space Lz should be a top 10 protocol if they execute this, which they will
After getting to know the LayerZero team and what they've been building over the past year, I couldn't think of a better opportunity to join an advisory board for the first time in a long time. Finance is moving on-chain, and I believe LayerZero will be one of the core innovation
DTCC welcomes the opportunity to collaborate across the industry to shape the future of digital market structure for the securities industry. As part of this effort, we are working with @LayerZero_Core to investigate ways to leverage the significant technological advancements
When I joined LayerZero 3+ years ago, my reason was incredibly simple: it was a team of builders who cared about the right things. Nothing changed. Introducing Zero, the first multi-core world computer built on all of the values that got our industry started. No compromises.
As Zero sets out to power the world economy, we are bringing on a world-class advisory board. We cannot think of a better group to help us accelerate the inevitable future: - @CathieDWood (ARK Invest) - @mblaugrund (ICE) - Caroline Butler (formerly BNY Mellon) [image]
This is a big deal. I've been excited about zk's potential to eliminate trade-offs for a while and Bryan and the LayerZero team have come up with what looks like the best implementation of that promise. Not an investor (sadly), just an impressed fan. [image]
We're excited to partner with LayerZero ahead of the Zero launch. Disruptive platforms evolve, and as more assets move on-chain, scalable, interoperable infrastructure becomes essential. We believe Zero has the potential to emerge as a leading smart contract platform in the next
We're building Zero with the world's foremost experts on markets, tokenization, and beyond. Day Zero Partners - @citsecurities, the next-generation global market maker - @The_DTCC, the world's largest clearinghouse - @ICE_Markets, the global leader in market infrastructure [image…
Two and a half years ago, after watching every chain hit the same wall, we bet everything on an idea most people told us was impossible. Zero, the last blockchain.
In a world full of infrastructure, there aren't nearly enough teams building the frontend and serving it to consumers. There remains a massive opportunity for an internet-native exchange for permissionless global markets. @GTE_XYZ has the chance to do exactly that: bring all [ima…
Congratulations to @LayerZero_Core on the launch of Zero! Zero uses Jolt by @a16zcrypto along with other technology advancements to deliver its performance improvements. With Jolt, they prove 1.6 GHz of RISC-V 64 bit instructions on a 64 GPU cluster.
Markets have problems that decentralized systems are uniquely suited to solve. But blockchain systems remain significantly behind TradFi performance standards. This partnership is how we close the gap. @GTE_XYZ X @LayerZero_Core