{"id":419902,"date":"2026-02-16T18:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/zro-soars-40-after-unveiling-layer-1-blockchain-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:48:03","slug":"zro-soars-40-after-unveiling-layer-1-blockchain-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/zro-soars-40-after-unveiling-layer-1-blockchain-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ZRO Soars 40% After Unveiling Layer 1 Blockchain &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>LayerZero announced its Zero blockchain yesterday, built in collaboration with Citadel, ICE, and Google Cloud.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LayerZero\u2019s ZRO token is leading the altcoin market today, rallying 40% after unveiling Zero, its <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/blockchains\/layerzero-unveils-layer-1-blockchain-zero\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">new Layer 1 blockchain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ZRO sold off immediately after yesterday\u2019s announcement; however, after more details emerged &#8211; such as Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood stepping on board as an advisor &#8211; the token surged from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/layerzero\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">$1.7 to $2.5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">ZRO Chart &#8211; CoinGecko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The ZRO token has been pricing in an impending announcement throughout 2026, and has been one of just a handful of strong altcoins over the last six weeks. The move brings ZRO&#8217;s market capitalization to $481 million, its highest level since January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Wood, the protocol also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LayerZero_Core\/status\/2021351335740981499\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">added<\/a> Michael Blaugrund, the vice president of Strategic Initiatives at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), and Caroline Butler, the former Head of Digital Assets at the Bank of New York Mellon, and co-chair of the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to its advisory board.<\/p>\n<p>LayerZero brands <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LayerZero_Core\/status\/2021336132047294898\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Zero<\/a> as \u201cthe first multi-core world computer\u201d and says it&#8217;s been designed to address all existing bottlenecks in blockchain design, with an explicit goal of 2 million transactions per second (TPS) for every component in its system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have replaced the fragmented, one-size-fits-all model with a unified high-performance system that treats multiple applications like concurrent processes on a single modern multi-core CPU. Due to this massive cost reduction, Zero is not only an alternative to existing blockchains; it provides a credible alternative to centralized cloud providers like AWS,\u201d the Zero debut article claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy stripping away the overhead of redundant replication, we have finally made decentralization viable on a global scale. Zero is the first truly scalable, multi-core world computer,\u201d the article concluded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4\">\n<div>\n<article class=\"yt-lite lyt-activated\" data-title=\"\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/q0ZKED-haNQ\/hqdefault.jpg);--aspect-ratio:56.25%\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"lty-playbtn\" aria-label=\"Watch \"\/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/q0ZKED-haNQ?mute=1&#038;enablejsapi=1\"><\/iframe><\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LayerZero announced its Zero blockchain yesterday, built in collaboration with Citadel, ICE, and Google Cloud. LayerZero\u2019s ZRO token is leading the altcoin market today, rallying 40% after unveiling Zero, its new Layer 1 blockchain. ZRO sold off immediately after yesterday\u2019s announcement; however, after more details emerged &#8211; such as Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood stepping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419906,"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-419902","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\/419902","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=419902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419907,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419902\/revisions\/419907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}