Grateful for the main stage at Bitcoin Seoul.
1/ Crypto is better money technology. Not just a new asset class, but a fundamentally different way of doing things with money that weren't possible before.
2/ Crypto's earliest PMF was access to volatile speculation. The elephant in the room has been this: token is the product, price action is marketing, CEX listing is distribution. That model worked and built the industry we're in today.
3/ That's now slowly shifting. The use case is moving from how money gets made to how money moves. Faster, cheaper, and more programmable than anything TradFi has offered. Institutions and enterprises are leading this, not retail.
4/ (biased) Asia is the most important region to watch. Despite its economic weight, it's the world's most fragmented market. 8+ major economies, each with different languages, currencies, regulations, and pain points. There is no one-size-fits-all playbook nor regulation, and anyone building as if there is will struggle.
5/ At the same time, Asia is the most digitally native continent. A few super apps dominate the way hundreds of millions of people consume news, communicate with friends, and shop groceries. Korea has the highest AI usage per capita in the world. These apps and infrastructures will serve as the perfect regional stablecoin settlement layer.
6/ Multi-chain is the default from Day 1, not a transition phase. Chains will consolidate and only a few strongest will survive. The future isn't one chain winning but users never thinking about which chain they're on. Asset issuers should focus on distribution and chains should focus on infrastructure.
7/ LayerZero sits at the center of this. 800+ Asset issuers can scale across 170+ chains via LayerZero. $9B processed in May alone and over $260B year to date.
8/ Stablecoins and RWAs will fundamentally change how my kids will invest, trade, save, and move money around the world. They will grow up in that world and I'm happy that I will have a few stories to share with them about building that world, although I'm not sure how much they will actually care. :)
Accelerate Asian Stablecoins.
0x Cross-Chain API is now generally available.
Customers can enable reliable payment flows and smoother cross-chain trade experiences in one easy integration 👇
ZRO Updates
More ZRO has been bought back and locked up than sold into the market. Institutions and buybacks have taken 19.77% of supply in 18 months, while 63.8% of ZRO unlocked to investors still hasn't moved. $112.7M has gone into ZRO buybacks since September 2025, one of the largest programs in crypto.
ZRO is the only asset in the LayerZero ecosystem. All economic value from Zero, LayerZero, and Stargate flows back to it.
Every token expresses a view. ZRO's first was that there'd be many chains, no single winner, and value would accrue to whatever connected them. Now LayerZero has moved $267B across 165 chains.
The next view is bigger. Money and markets are the two largest waves finance will ever see, and both are already onchain. Zero was built for this moment. Coming this fall.
700+ apps deployed across 170+ chains.
800+ tokens issued securing $8B+ in value transferred per month.
$250B+ in total value transferred in 160M+ messages.
LayerZero data on @AlliumLabs starting next week.
Over the last 30 days, @LayerZero_Core facilitated:
-> $8.2B in volume
-> 87,684 unique wallets
-> 153 destination chains
Cross-chain interoperability is bigger than most people realize.
Full dashboard next week.
RISE x LayerZero.
LayerZero is the main bridge for ERC-20 tokens between RISE and Ethereum. The native rollup bridge handles ETH, while LayerZero handles all other assets.
Security was the main focus during development, not just a marketing point. Here’s how it works.
Forte AUD (AUDF) is now integrated with @LayerZero_Core & @StargateFinance, enabling cross-chain interoperability for AUDF holders.
This integration allows users to bridge AUDF across supported blockchains seamlessly.
.@ethena's $USDe just surpassed $20B in cross-chain transfer volume on LayerZero, bringing their lifetime volume across all Ethena assets over $30B.
This brings total value transferred across LayerZero to over $265B.
$9.6T moves through traditional FX markets every day.
Onchain, ~$300B in stablecoins propose a more efficient alternative. However, this stablecoin supply is fragmented across assets, pools, and settlement environments.
For institutions looking to adopt stablecoins, this fragmentation causes pricing inconsistency, which is an operational non-starter.
Superset is building the onchain FX layer that unifies pricing across 165 chains and enables more efficient onchain trading.
Built with LayerZero.
Ethena's cross-chain security infrastructure has been hardened across the full stack and we will continue to do so on an ongoing basis.
The security and risk contributors to Ethena remain comfortable operating on LayerZero infrastructure with hardened DVN configurations, reduced mesh complexity, and custom rate limits.
There are no plans to move off LayerZero infrastructure.
We’re sharing our completed post-mortem on the April 18th incident, prepared with @Mandiant and @CrowdStrike. We are publishing both an executive summary and the full report at the link below.
Over the past four weeks, we’ve worked with hundreds of partners to help them understand their current security posture, and harden it where appropriate. We’ll continue this work, alongside taking additional proactive steps for the benefit of not only our partners, but also the ecosystem as a whole.
We want to extend our thanks to our partners for their support and patience this past month. There’s a reason that over $12 billion has moved across the network in the past four weeks, and why the world’s most valuable asset issuers have stood by our side: they believe in us, in what the LayerZero protocol has to offer, and in the value of modular, isolated, application-controlled security.
The work continues. And we look forward to continue showing up for the applications that trust us with their business, as well as the broader ecosystem.
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