ZIGChain price of $0.03460752 is up 2.79% in the last 24 hours and down -11.57% in the last 7 days. Price is down -80.70% from ATH of $0.17933988 from Dec 4, 2024, and down 62.35% from 52-week high of $0.09192479. Short-term trend is Strong Down while Medium-term trend is Strong Down and Long-term trend is Neutral. Near-term momentum is Bearish based on MACD Signal Line crossover and Bearish based on RSI-14 center line crossover (RSI < 50). Price is Very Oversold currently, based on RSI-14 levels (RSI < 25).
ZIGChain (ZIG) is a sovereign Layer-1 blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK, identified by chain-id "zigchain-1", that is EVM-compatible via Solidity and also supports CosmWasm smart contracts written in Rust.
Its native token denom is "uzig." The network's mainnet Genesis occurred on June 25, 2025, following a February 2025 testnet. ZIGChain evolved from Zignaly, a crypto social and copy-trading platform, and is oriented toward wealth-generation applications such as lending, real-world-asset (RWA) tokenization, and decentralized finance.
ZIGChain differentiates itself by focusing on real-world-asset lending and Shariah-compliant tokenized finance rather than general-purpose smart contracts alone.
Its affiliated lending platform, ZIG Markets, has originated more than $50 million in credit with no defaults to date. Under a "Tokenomics 2.0" mechanism effective July 1, 2026, half of ZIG Markets' monthly platform revenue funds open-market ZIG buybacks, and bought-back tokens are either burned or routed to an ecosystem pool by validator vote, directly linking platform usage to token scarcity.
ZIG functions as both a utility and governance token on ZIGChain.
ZIG has a maximum supply of 2,000,000,000 tokens.
ZIG originates from an April 2021 token generation event under the Zignaly platform, with pre-mainnet staking offered on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain.
The ZIGChain Layer-1 itself launched years later: testnet in February 2025 and mainnet Genesis on June 25, 2025, formally announced as "Mainnet Beta" on July 1, 2025. A $100 million Ecosystem Development Fund backed by Zignaly, DWF Labs, Disrupt.com, and UDHC Finance was announced in April 2024, followed by a $25 million "DeFAI" Innovation Fund in April 2025.
ZIGChain is a sovereign Cosmos SDK-based Layer-1 blockchain (chain-id "zigchain-1") secured by Proof-of-Stake consensus, in which ZIG holders delegate stake to a validator set.
The chain is EVM-compatible, supporting Solidity smart contracts, and also runs CosmWasm-based contracts written in Rust. Bridged representations of ZIG circulate on Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Solana (via Wormhole), and Injective (via Peggy bridge), used primarily for exchange and DEX liquidity rather than native settlement.
ZIGChain's founding team are co-founders of Zignaly, the crypto social and copy-trading platform launched in 2018.
ZIGChain is developed by the team behind Zignaly, operating under a ZIGChain Foundation that stewards the network.
The project is oriented around the United Arab Emirates: its 2025 Summit was held in Dubai, and reporting from August 2026 describes ZIGChain as a UAE-based Layer-1 blockchain. ZIGLabs and Disrupt.com are named contributors to ecosystem initiatives, including RWA-tokenization products built on the chain.
ZIGChain uses on-chain, stake-weighted governance in which each ZIG token represents one vote on decisions such as network fees, validator count, and treasury spending.
Validators and delegators vote directly on proposals through the ZIGChain Hub. In the first "Tokenomics 2.0" proposal (July 28-August 1, 2026), validators voted on whether to permanently burn 519,300 ZIG acquired through the platform's revenue-buyback program or route the tokens to a community ecosystem pool instead.
No comprehensive third-party audit of the ZIGChain Layer-1 protocol itself has been published.
An automated Cyberscope scan of a bridged Ethereum representation of ZIG produced a 66% "Overall Score" and 72% "Security Score," but explicitly notes no formal Cyberscope audit was performed. Halborn audited the Permapod Core Contracts, including an oracle integration within ZIGChain's CosmWasm environment, in October 2025 — covering a lending application built on ZIGChain rather than the base chain.