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 Twitter Score is 540 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #257 (top 0.1%) out of 531,432 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 2,738 posts and has 717,979 followers as of July 2026 on X. The account has been mentioned by 1,075 accounts, with 2,571 total mentions. LayerZero's associated tokens include Stargate, L2BEAT, Delabs Games, Seismic, Echelon, ZettaBlock, defi.money and KITE AI.
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LayerZero draws a broad set of notable followers from across the crypto industry. The accounts that follow LayerZero include 2,074 founders, 411 angel investors, 1,558 influencers and 120 VCs, among them Cobie, Toly, Ansem, Solana, Erik Voorhees and Laura Shin.