- ZetaChain will shut down its remaining cross-chain services across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, BSC, Polygon, Avalanche, Sui, and TON on June 30th, based on the latest published termination schedule.
- ZRC20 withdrawals will be suspended indefinitely after the deadline. $zeta is trading around $0.036, near its recent all-time low.
- The project is moving to Auma, an AI memory application, after the GatewayEVM exploit drained approximately $334,000 from the team’s internal wallets.
ZetaChain will end its remaining cross-chain services on June 30th, abandoning the interoperability mission that originally defined the project and shifting its focus to AI memory infrastructure. This reduction affects bridge support across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, BSC, Polygon, Avalanche, Sui, and TON. On June 1st, deposits were disabled and users were given a 30-day withdrawal period. For users, the timing is urgent and operationally unforgiving. An unsettling development is Cross-chain networks are closing bridges to build AI memoryZRC20 holders are forced to compete against operational deadlines.
After the deadline, all ZRC20 token withdrawals will be suspended indefinitely and no resumption schedule will be announced. ZetaChain will no longer monitor or relay transactions across supported networks, effectively ending the cross-chain functionality that made the protocol aware. The chain still shows 11.9 million unique addresses and 241 million transactions, but the market data cited in the report is as follows: $zeta The price is around $0.036, close to the all-time low of $0.032 reached four days ago. From a practical point of view, Usage history now conflicts with token shrinkage narrative For holders who are paying attention to rapid changes in utility.
Auma replaces interoperability as major bet
The new focus is Auma, a consumer AI application that was made publicly available on April 27th. ZetaChain positions it as a portable, user-owned memory infrastructure that allows encrypted conversation histories and behavioral preferences to be moved between AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The project says more than 150,000 users are interacting with AI products within its ecosystem. That’s an impressive reset. $zeta Being recast as an AI infrastructure tokenstaking is expected to unlock access to multiple models and support memory, identity, permissions, payments, and agents across newly designed platforms.
The pivot continues with a difficult security chapter. In late April, attackers exploited ZetaChain’s GatewayEVM contract and exfiltrated approximately $334,000 across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BSC transactions. ZetaChain said that only wallets within its team were affected and no user funds were lost. Still, the vulnerability was reportedly reported through the bug bounty program and ignored as expected behavior, leading to backlash. The project has since suspended cross-chain mainnet transactions, disabled arbitrary gateway calls, and replaced unlimited authorizations with precise amount of authorizations. For now, AI pivots must overcome both execution risk and damage to trust Under greater community scrutiny.
