ZetaChain Ends L1 to Ship AI App on Solana

Proposal 68 passed at 10:58 a.m. ET with 99.4% support, according to ZetaChain's governance portal. The vote confirms the project will abandon its independent Layer 1 network to deploy its AI application on Solana. Participation reached 58%, comfortably above the 40% quorum, while opposition and abstentions accounted for 0.3% each.

The decisive factor is security. The migration proposal states that as a Cosmos SDK chain, ZetaChain inherits every upstream advisory and patch, and each one requires coordination across dozens of independent validators. The team notes that AI tooling is making such vulnerabilities easier to find, as the August 25 patch showed. In August, Cosmos Labs disclosed attacks on six EVM chains where attackers sold approximately $5.7 million in stolen funds, a vulnerability testers had initially believed was not exploitable on live networks, according to The Block.

The project argues the infrastructure overhead no longer serves its core product, Anuma. The ZetaChain team wrote in its blog post: "What Solana's AI stack still lacks is the application layer: an app people use every day, with memory that belongs to them and travels across models, apps, and agents." Anuma has handled a million requests across 35 AI models and serves more than 300,000 users, per the project's self-reported figures. The proposal stipulates that ZETA exchanges for SPL assets one-for-one, preserving the original ticker and supply totals.

The Block reported that the attackers sold the stolen funds for about $5.7 million, a stark contrast to the platform’s scale which The Block noted includes more than 300,000 Anuma users and a million requests across 35 AI models. According to The Block, ZETA staking remains active while the team continues exploring how to handle staking and rewards on Solana, a process that was not specifically defined in the Sept. 17 announcement. The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated the next CPI release is on October 14, 2026, and the Federal Reserve’s next rate decision is on October 28, 2026.