ZetaChain today announced the official launch of its AI interoperability layer, ZetaChain 2.0, alongside the beta release of Anuma—a privacy-first large model aggregation app built on the platform.
This upgrade marks a significant step for the public blockchain, which has already served over 11.5 million users and processed more than 225 million transactions, as it expands its proven expertise in blockchain interoperability into the realm of AI.
01 Ecosystem Innovation: Making Privacy the Default for AI
Every interaction with different AI assistants creates a unique context and memory, shaped by each conversation and user preference. However, this data is often scattered across platforms, making privacy difficult to guarantee.
The arrival of the Anuma app is changing this landscape. Built on ZetaChain 2.0, it allows users to access multiple leading AI models through a single interface and switch between models without losing context.
Most importantly, Anuma is designed with privacy and user control as default settings. This means users’ data and memories remain private and fully under their control at all times. The design draws inspiration from the privacy-focused Brave browser ecosystem.
Interestingly, ZetaChain’s core contributor Ankur Nandwani is also a co-creator of the Basic Attention Token (BAT), which powers the Brave browser ecosystem, serving over 100 million monthly active users.
Brave has mainstreamed privacy-first browsing by blocking trackers and ads by default. Anuma brings this same philosophy to AI—the next generation of major consumer interfaces.
02 Tackling AI Fragmentation: An Expanding Industry Challenge
AI adoption is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. McKinsey notes that ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months, and OpenAI reports that by the end of 2025, its weekly active users will hit 800 million.
Yet, the ecosystem remains highly fragmented. Only 9% of consumers pay for more than one major AI assistant subscription.
This fragmentation leads to model-level lock-in, forcing developers to repeatedly rebuild the same integration, routing, state, and billing infrastructure. Privacy and data are frequently shared across apps, agents, and model providers.
ZetaChain 2.0 is purpose-built to address this pain point. It consists of two core components: the AI Gateway and the Privacy Memory Layer.
03 Technical Architecture: Dual-Core Driving AI Interoperability
The AI Gateway acts as a unified routing and execution layer, enabling applications to access multiple AI model providers without lock-in, with built-in support for availability, fallback, and cost-performance optimization.
The Privacy Memory Layer is a protocol-level memory system designed to protect user context through encryption and permission controls. This allows experiences to persist across sessions while maintaining user control over app and agent access.
To speed up development, ZetaChain has also released a developer SDK that packages private persistent memory, cross-model interoperability, and monetization primitives into a single toolkit.
The goal is to empower developers to easily build privacy-first apps and agents that maintain context across sessions, connect to multiple model providers, and support global monetization channels—from on-chain settlement to traditional payment processors.
04 Market Performance and Data Analysis
Following the launch of ZetaChain 2.0 and Anuma, the ZETA token has shown positive market momentum. As of January 28, the latest market data shows ZETA priced at $0.07311, up 10.67% in 24 hours.
Currently, ZETA has a circulating supply of 1,210,000,000 tokens, with a total market cap of $89,040,000.
Technical indicators point to bearish market sentiment, with a Fear & Greed Index at 29 (Fear). Over the past 30 days, 16 days were up days (53%), and price volatility stands at 5.88%.
Notably, ZetaChain completed a $27 million funding round in 2023, with participation from leading institutions including Blockchain.com, Human Capital, VY Capital, Sky9 Capital, and Jane Street Capital.
05 Omnichain Vision: From Blockchain Interoperability to AI Interoperability
ZetaChain was originally built to solve the fragmentation of Web3, enabling universal applications to natively access assets like BTC and execute across multiple blockchains through a single platform.
Now, with the launch of ZetaChain 2.0, ZetaChain is extending this unified approach to AI, allowing apps to run across chains and models with built-in permissions and private context.
As Ankur Nandwani puts it: "Brave and BAT have proven that privacy-first defaults can win at consumer scale. We’ve already unified blockchain experiences at scale, processing over 225 million transactions."
ZetaChain 2.0 brings this same strategy to AI, enabling next-generation apps and agents to operate across models and chains, with privacy, permissioned memory, and global monetization as the default.
On ZetaChain 2.0, the ZETA token surged over 10% within 24 hours of the announcement, with its market cap nearing the $90 million mark. At the same time, more than 121 million ZETA tokens are in circulation, underscoring the blockchain’s expansion into AI interoperability.
Anuma’s public waitlist is now open, with early adopters lining up to experience an AI interface that promises to put privacy back in users’ hands. As users track ZETA’s price movements on platforms like Gate, they may also be witnessing the dawn of a technological revolution—one that redefines data ownership as a fundamental human right.
