In a dramatic operational shift, layer-1 blockchain network ZetaChain has announced its complete transition away from cross-chain crypto infrastructure to become a dedicated decentralized private memory layer for artificial intelligence. Alongside this strategic pivot, ZetaChain has officially unveiled Anuma, its flagship consumer AI application designed to provide users with an encrypted, portable context history that seamlessly spans multiple major Large Language Models (LLMs).
$ZETA HAS EVOLVED.
After four years of building cross-chain infrastructure,
we decided to test ZetaChain’s interoperability thesis:Could assets and chains extend beyond, into intelligence itself?
memory. context. identity. agents that move with the user.We were proven right.… pic.twitter.com/dHkI8vRcmh
— ZetaChain 🟩 (@ZetaChain) June 2, 2026
Problem of Fragmented AI Context
As generative AI adoption reaches unprecedented velocities, with Stanford’s 2026 AI Index recording a 53% global adoption rate within three years, the mainstream consumer experience remains heavily siloed. Users frequently spend months training a specific AI model on personal preferences, unique workflows, and communication styles, only to lose that accumulated context entirely when a superior model emerges from a competing provider.
Anuma acts as a sovereign middleware layer that resolves this fragmentation. Launched as a public experiment on April 27 and already capturing over 60,000 users in its first month, the application allows individuals to maintain a singular, encrypted vault of their writing styles, goals, and historical data. This context safely travels between major frontends, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and DeepSeek, ensuring users never have to rebuild their personalization profile from scratch.
Sunsetting Legacy Cross-Chain Architecture
To fund and execute this new technical direction with maximum focus, ZetaChain will systematically wind down its multi-chain bridging and interoperability features. Over the coming months, the network will officially terminate active support for a suite of major connected chains, including Bitcoin, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Smart Chain (BSC), Polygon, Avalanche, Sui, and TON.
Asset withdrawals will remain fully operational throughout a structured, phased wind-down timeline. This ensures a clean migration period for existing cross-chain DeFi participants before the network dedicates its validator set entirely to AI coordination.
Driving Utility Through the ZETA Token
The native ZETA token remains the core economic driver of the ecosystem, re-engineered to anchor the five structural pillars of the new AI consumer layer: memory, permissions, identity, payments, and agents.
Users lock ZETA tokens to gain unhindered access to cutting-edge commercial models and domain-specific AI agents within Anuma.
Every granular permission update, such as allowing a development agent temporary read access to a specific codebase, is executed as an on-chain transaction paid for via ZETA gas fees.
Micro-payments for automated agent invocation and context consumption are designed to settle natively via the x402 protocol, an HTTP-native payment standard backed by Coinbase and Cloudflare.
ZETA token mechanics will directly secure and incentivize the decentralized cloud storage layer tasked with hosting heavily encrypted, user-owned memory vaults.
With hyperscale cloud providers projected by Goldman Sachs to exceed $500 billion in AI capital expenditures this year, ZetaChain aims to capture the critical trust-and-coordination market, ensuring users, not centralized corporate labs, retain absolute ownership over their intelligence.
