ZetaChain, a Layer 1 universal blockchain platform offering interoperability across multiple blockchain networks, has secured several prominent industry players as validators, including Google Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, NTT Digital, Coinbase, stc Bahrain, and Alibaba Cloud. These partnerships are expected to enhance the decentralization and trustworthiness of ZetaChain’s network as it continues to grow.
Following the announcement, the price of ZETA surged sharply, rising from $0.21 to $0.40 on March 23, 2025. However, the price later pared gains amid profit-taking, with ZETA currently trading around $0.32, reflecting a 4% drop in the past 24 hours.
The addition of these major validators will play a key role in supporting ZetaChain’s mission to connect blockchain ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Sui, enabling universal decentralized applications. ZetaChain aims to simplify the Web3 experience by removing the need for complex crypto bridges or wrapped assets, providing developers and users with a unified experience across blockchains.
In its blog post, ZetaChain expressed excitement about the new partnerships: “We’re excited to share that several top enterprises have recently joined our ecosystem as validators, strengthening support and growth of Universal Apps that seamlessly interoperate across many blockchains.”
These validators—Google Cloud, Deutsche Telekom (via Telekom MMS), NTT Digital, Coinbase, stc Bahrain, and Alibaba Cloud—will help strengthen ZetaChain’s infrastructure, scalability, and decentralization. Specifically, Google Cloud will leverage its robust infrastructure to secure ZetaChain, and integrate the blockchain’s testnet faucet, enabling developers to access testnet tokens.
Coinbase’s integration with ZetaChain includes support for the Ethereum layer 2 platform Base and its learning rewards program. The exchange will also operate a native validator and enable staking of ZETA tokens.
Deutsche Telekom, Alibaba Cloud, NTT Digital, and stc Bahrain will contribute their own infrastructure to ZetaChain, with Telekom MMS bringing in its Open Telekom Cloud (OTC) and Alibaba Cloud leveraging its Spark web3 program.
ZetaChain has also announced that the Open Network (TON) and Sui (SUI) testnets are now live on the Universal blockchain, allowing developers to deploy a single smart contract that provides access to native support for TON, SUI, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
