This blockchain just voted to shut itself down for a Solana-powered AI pivot

ZetaChain's on-chain governance has approved retiring the network’s standalone blockchain and moving ZETA to Solana as the project pivots toward private AI.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.The vote does not immediately move tokens or shut down the network.ZetaChain says its own L1 no longer fitsThe planned shutdown marks a sharp strategic shift for a project founded in 2021 to connect otherwise separate blockchains.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.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 ...