LayerZero is the official account of LayerZero Labs, an omnichain interoperability protocol founded by Bryan Pellegrino, Ryan Zarick, and Caleb Banister, and affiliated with the LayerZero Foundation. LayerZero's TwitterScore is 542 out of 1000, ranking #273 out of 364,257 accounts tracked on this platform.
LayerZero has moved over $260B in value across 165 networks, processed 160 million messages, and carries approximately 70% of cross-chain stablecoin flow as of June 2026. The protocol's ZRO token has a total supply of 1 billion, with 514M ZRO unlocked and 486M vesting across the LayerZero Foundation, strategic partners, and core contributors.
LayerZero raised a $120M funding round in 2023 from a16z crypto and Sequoia Capital at a $3B valuation; a16z crypto purchased an additional $55M worth of ZRO in April 2025. Further backers include Citadel Securities, ARK Invest, Tether, Multicoin Capital, Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures, PayPal Ventures, Tiger Global, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, OKX Ventures, OpenSea Ventures, and Samsung Next.
LayerZero's core products include Stargate, a fully composable liquidity transport protocol at the center of omnichain DeFi, and Zero, a Layer 1 blockchain architecture configurable to up to 2M TPS per zone, aimed at making decentralization viable at scale. Tether built on LayerZero's technology to create USDT0, an omnichain version of USDT. LayerZero is also affiliated with Google Cloud, DTCC, and Intercontinental Exchange.
LayerZero settled with the FTX bankruptcy estate in January 2025 over a legal dispute tied to an Alameda Research deal, following a suit the FTX estate had filed against LayerZero Labs in 2023. On April 18, 2026, KelpDAO was exploited for approximately $290M; LayerZero stated the incident was isolated to KelpDAO's rsETH configuration with zero contagion to other cross-chain assets, and that internal RPCs used by the LayerZero Labs DVN were attacked in connection with the event, while the affected application represented 0.14% of total applications and approximately 0.36% of assets on the protocol.
LayerZero has published 2,718 posts and has 719,000 followers on X. The account has been mentioned by 1,073 accounts, with 2,562 total mentions. LayerZero's associated tokens include Bubblemaps, Stargate and KITE AI.
Smart Followers
LayerZero draws a broad set of notable followers from across the crypto industry. The accounts that follow LayerZero include 1,762 founders, 342 angel investors, 1,657 influencers and 160 VCs, among them Cobie, Toly, Ansem, Solana, Laura Shin and Erik Voorhees.