{"id":410575,"date":"2025-11-08T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/layerzero-token-surges-after-10-million-buyback-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:54:58","slug":"layerzero-token-surges-after-10-million-buyback-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/layerzero-token-surges-after-10-million-buyback-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"LayerZero Token Surges After $10 Million Buyback &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The omnichain protocol\u2019s ZRO buyback highlights a broader trend of crypto projects returning revenue to tokenholders.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/tag\/layerzero\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">LayerZero<\/a> Labs, the team behind the omnichain interoperability protocol, disclosed on Thursday that it had purchased $10 million of its native token, ZRO, from the open market.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the company called ZRO \u201cone of the most mispriced assets in the world\u201d and said it plans to continue buying as opportunities arise. ZRO is trading at $1.73, up 11% in the past 24 hours, with a market capitalization of $194 million, according to CoinGecko.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">ZRO Chart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are living through a once-in-a-generation change in the financial system and LayerZero sits at the core of this transition to global-scale permissionless infrastructure,\u201d the post reads. <\/p>\n<p>LayerZero has a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/markets\/layerzero-price-rallies-on-zro-token-buyback\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">history of token buybacks<\/a>. In September, the protocol said the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/defi\/stargate-approves-usd110-million-takeover-by-layerzero\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">LayerZero Foundation<\/a> executed a buyback of 50 million ZRO \u2013 or 5% of the token\u2019s total supply \u2013 from early investors. Following the announcement, ZRO rallied from near $1.82 to over $2.21 by Sept. 24.<\/p>\n<p>LayerZero Labs\u2019 ZRO purchase fits into a wider trend of crypto projects returning revenue to tokenholders through buybacks.   <\/p>\n<p>According to a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/research-and-opinion\/crypto-token-buybacks-surge-fivefold-as-projects-return-more-revenue-to-holders\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">recent report by investment firm Keyrock<\/a>, buybacks and direct token distributions have grown more than fivefold since 2024, as protocols increasingly prioritize payouts over reinvesting all revenue into growth.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the report found that, across 12 major crypto projects, an average of 64% of total revenue was returned to tokenholders, marking a shift from the previous focus on product development, marketing, and community programs.<\/p>\n<p>These latest buybacks come after LayerZero announced several initiatives to expand its cross-chain network throughout 2025. In September, it announced it was integrating with Stellar, a blockchain with a total value locked (TVL) of $148.92 million.<\/p>\n<p>And then, earlier this year,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/blockchains\/mantle-integrates-layerzero-to-move-7-billion-assets-across-chains-94e997da\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \"> it integrated Mantle<\/a>, an Ethereum Layer-2 with about $7 billion in on-chain assets, using its Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard to let users move MNT to HyperEVM. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The omnichain protocol\u2019s ZRO buyback highlights a broader trend of crypto projects returning revenue to tokenholders. LayerZero Labs, the team behind the omnichain interoperability protocol, disclosed on Thursday that it had purchased $10 million of its native token, ZRO, from the open market. In a post on X, the company called ZRO \u201cone of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-410575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410579,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410575\/revisions\/410579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}