TL;DR We head into summer with 1M+ enrolled XP members, and exciting developments to the Universal Loyalty & Rewards Layer program while ramping up ecosystem expansion for the first Universal EVM!
ZetaChain’s mission is to serve as a platform for universal access, simplicity, and utility across any blockchain. Progress in June on a number of important initiatives move ZetaChain closer towards realizing the first Universal EVM for chain abstraction: the Universal Loyalty & Rewards Layer launch, Alchemy support for easier development of Universal Apps, protocol upgrades for ZetaChain 2.0, and high partner growth across the ecosystem. At the same time, ZetaChain contributors brought crypto communities together around the world from Vietnam Blockchain Week to gatherings in Korea, DEVCON in the Philippines, the Omnichain Abstraction Summit in Africa, and everything in between. This is the June 2024 recap!
June saw 260+ total partnerships incuding expansion across the ecosystem stack including new partners across infrastructure, SocialFi, GameFi, DeFi, and analytics! Tune into our Ecosystem update calls on the third Tuesday of every month to stay up to speed on the latest ZetaChain ecosystem news.
We’re thrilled to announce developers can now build Universal Apps using Alchemy Supernode, Alchemy Subgraphs and Alchemy’s full suite of developer tools! The integration marks a big milestone in ZetaChain’s effort to onboard best in class infrastructure services and providers to support the first universal blockchain development experience.
Later this year, we’re excited to release general availability for NFT API support. The update will enable ZetaChain developers focused on omnichain NFT applications with the ability to easily launch, verify, analyze, trade and display NFTs.
Overall, in partnership with Alchemy, we aim to make it seamless for developers to build any kind of Universal App on ZetaChain and gain future proof compatibility with all important blockchains — even the Bitcoin network.
Access our quick start guide here to get started! Learn more about the ZetaChain X Alchemy partnership:
A key part of our chain support strategy in ZetaChain 2.0 is introducing a new way of transporting data to/from the universe of IBC-compatible chains and ZetaChain’s Chain Abstraction Framework. With this integration, users and wallets from all IBC supported chains will be able to seamlessly access Universal Apps and call these Omnichain Smart Contracts on ZetaChain from IBC chains.
You can follow ZetaChain 2.0 progress right from our public GitHub.
In preparation for adding IBC as a transport layer, we’re excited to share new Cosmos wallets support ZetaChain. The most popular Cosmos wallet with over 1M users, Keplr, is now integrated with ZetaChain! Additionally, leading Cosmos wallet Leap adds support for ZetaChain. Check out their quick user video guide on how to get started.
We look forward to sharing more about how to use Cosmos wallets for ZetaChain staking and voting and bigger picture updates on Cosmos IBC joining ZetaChain's ecosystem of universal connectivity.