Zero - The Last Blockchain?

Last Week In The Multi-Chain Ecosystem (09 - 15 Feb '26)

Welcome to the interop/acc newsletter — a weekly curation of the major updates and announcements from the industry’s leading interop protocols and ecosystems.

Interop Protocols

1) LayerZero launches Zero: the decentralised multi-core world computer. Announces partnerships with Citadel, DTCC, ICE, Google Cloud, GTE.

2) Tether Announces Strategic Investment in LayerZero Labs.

3) LI.FI integrates Garden, unlocking more Bitcoin liquidity and other routes.

4) LI.FI integrates NEAR Intents, unlocking deeper liquidity on 25 chains including Bitcoin and Solana.

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Interesting Resources

1) Everything is Market

2) Pod: Crypto’s Next Era Will Be Fragmented — Are We Ready?

3) Building Permissionless Neobanks

4) Zero: technical positioning paper

5) crypto’s golden goose

6) The problem with crypto isn’t crypto

7) The End of the Beginning

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