{"id":13518,"date":"2026-09-21T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=13518"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:00:46","slug":"this-blockchain-just-voted-to-shut-itself-down-for-a-solana-powered-ai-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=13518","title":{"rendered":"This blockchain just voted to shut itself down for a Solana-powered AI pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

ZetaChain’s on-chain governance has approved retiring the network\u2019s standalone blockchain and moving ZETA to Solana as the project pivots toward private AI.<\/p>\n

Proposal 68 passed after voting ended Sept. 20, with about 99.44% of ballots supporting the plan. The on-chain tally showed 263.65 million ZETA voting in favor, 744,658 voting against, and 752,300 abstaining, giving core contributors a mandate to prepare the migration.<\/p>\n

The vote does not immediately move tokens or shut down the network.<\/p>\n

ZetaChain says its own L1 no longer fits<\/h2>\n

The planned shutdown marks a sharp strategic shift for a project founded in 2021 to connect otherwise separate blockchains.<\/p>\n

ZetaChain spent years building a Cosmos SDK-based layer-1 designed to let applications interact with assets and contracts across networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. Earlier this year, however, the project began concentrating resources on Anuma, a private multi-model AI application built around what it calls a Private Memory Layer.<\/p>\n

ZetaChain now says maintaining its own blockchain no longer helps that effort. In Proposal 68, the project said operating a Cosmos-based network requires coordinating upstream security advisories and patches across dozens of independent validators, an operational burden it expects to increase as AI tools make vulnerabilities easier to find.<\/p>\n

Moving to Solana would replace that validator infrastructure and let contributors focus on Anuma and the AI application layer. ZetaChain said \u201cevery contributor hour\u201d would shift toward ZETA, Anuma and development on Solana.<\/p>\n

\n

Related Reading<\/span><\/p>\n

Helium community votes to migrate to Solana, scores new T-Mobile partnership<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

<\/span> <\/div>\n

The project says Anuma has attracted more than 300,000 users since February and processed more than 1 million requests across 35 AI models. Each Anuma account also includes a wallet, meaning the migration could bring those users into the Solana ecosystem alongside the token.<\/p>\n

ZetaChain argues Solana offers the transaction speed, low fees, liquidity, and emerging agent-payment infrastructure needed for AI applications that may make frequent payments or model calls. It cited confirmations of about 400 milliseconds, more than $15 billion of stablecoins on the network and roughly $70 billion in monthly decentralized-exchange volume.<\/p>\n