Recently, the streaming payment protocol Zebec Protocol released the latest roadmap, revealing a new development plan for the ecology in the coming year. At present, the Zebec Protocol ecosystem has created a brand-new product matrix, including the modular Layer3 chain Nautilus Chain, the streaming payment application Zebec APP, and the salary management agreement Zebec payroll. This year's development plan further demonstrates Zebec Protocol's determination to move towards the Web2 world.
Interpretation of the new roadmap
1. Nautlius Chain product route:
Nautlius Chain is a blockchain system launched by the Zebec Protocol community, and is an important part of Zebec's ecological vision from protocol to public chain. This chain is the industry's first parallelized and fastest running EVM Rollup L3 expansion solution. As the first modular chain, storage, computing, consensus, etc. are all in different modules, which means that it can obtain higher Scalability and expansion capabilities, and further improve network throughput, security, and privacy on the basis of Layer2. According to the "Triton" test network data, during the test period, the Nautilus Chain TPS data was above 2000. Nautilus adopts Celestia's modular bottom layer and uses ZK Rollup technology to increase privacy. When applications in the ecosystem want to achieve more functions, reduce operating costs, enhance security, and obtain more sovereignty, developers can use a wider package of modules Among them, choose the solution that suits you, so as to choose to develop DAPP-Chain or DAPP-Rollup or DAPP-Subnet.
l In August 2023, the main network will be launched, and ZBC single currency pledge will be launched
Nautilus Chain will launch the official version of the main network in the coming August. In July, Nautilus Chain has launched the main network version for developers, allowing developers to directly use real assets for on-chain deployment, in order to ensure the transaction security of users , To obtain a better trading experience, the developer version of the main network is not yet open to users. And in August, Nautilus Chain will launch the official version of the mainnet for all users.
After the launch of the main network, ZBC’s single-currency pledge system will also be launched soon. At that time, pledgers, Zepoch node holders, etc. will get a lot of benefits from it, and it is expected to promote the completion of the ZBC pass to usher in a new round. rise.
l In Q4 of 2023, the Asset Tokenization Agreement (RWA) will be launched
Nautilus Chain implements the modular stack of Celestia + Eclipse + zkEVM. With its modular architecture, it has also become the industry's first parallelized and fastest-running EVM Rollup Layer3 expansion solution, which can combine storage and computing , consensus, etc. are encapsulated in different modules, which have higher scalability and expansion capabilities, further improving network throughput and security, and increasing privacy through ZK Rollup technology to further expand richer functions.
Developers and asset issuers of RWA projects can further customize the development and build some layers or Rollups dedicated to serving individual RWA assets or projects based on Nautilus Chain. With the support of Celestia + Eclipse, they can run in parallel and provide The long-term development of the track provides support in terms of load carrying, maneuverability and flexibility. Based on Nautilus Chain, these different modular application chains are also highly interoperable to meet the value interaction between different RWA assets. RWA has been included in the new development plan. It is expected that in Q4 of 2023, the RWA track will be fully laid out, and a large number of RWA assets will be introduced into the chain. This is one of the best ways for Nautilus Chain to leap into the Web2 world.
l 2024 Q1/Q2, integrate Zebec applications and projects
In Q1/Q2 of 2024, Nautlius Chain will be able to face the market with a very complete and mature appearance. Nautilus Chain will integrate Zebec Protocol applications and projects, and become one of the main carriers of Zebec Protocol flow payment system. Based on the modular facilities of Nautilus Chain, the flow payment protocol and its related applications will be able to further build the application layer in the form of Rollup, run in parallel, and endow it with many features such as privacy and compliance.
At that time, Zebec APP and more than 200 streaming payment users will be introduced into the Nautlius Chain system together to obtain long-term operational support.
2. Zebec APP product line:
l July 2023: Deploy Zebec BNB application (already live)
At present, Zebec APP has completed the deployment on BNB Chain (initially on Solana). In addition to being able to carry out streaming payment on BNB Chain, Zebec APP has also further expanded the streaming payment function. It is reported that the Zebec APP has cooperated with Coinflow to launch the Off-Ramp function. Based on the Off-Ramp function, streaming payment users under the Zebec system can directly connect their bank accounts to the Zebec Protocol account, and encrypt the received data through the Zebec Protocol application. Assets are directly converted into legal currency and deposited in bank accounts without additional conversion steps.
This will greatly reduce the threshold for users to use flow payment facilities, and accelerate the further popularization of flow payment applications and business scenarios. This will also become a catalyst for the competitiveness of Zebec Protocol's flow payment business.
l In Q4 2023, Zebec Card will be launched in major regions in Asia
Previously, Zebec Protocol cooperated with Visa and Master to launch Zebec Card for North America and Europe respectively. The card is a debit card that, in addition to having all the functions of a current debit card, also supports the use of cryptocurrency for payment. Cardholders can deposit supported cryptocurrencies into the card through the Zebec Protocol application for consumption, payment, etc. In addition, depositing $ZBC assets can also obtain benefits such as fee discounts and interest return benefits.
Zebec Protocol is planning to further promote the progress of Zebec Card business. It is reported that it plans to launch in cooperation with new banking partners in major Asian regions represented by Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan, India and Dubai in Q4 of 2023 The new Zebec Card is designed to attract more active users in Asia.
Statistics show that there are currently about 420 million encrypted users in the world, 50% of which are distributed in Asia, which means that the vast majority of active encrypted users are distributed in Asia (especially Southeast Asia, Japan, and South Korea). In addition, after Hong Kong promulgated new encryption regulations this year, it is expected to further promote the development of the encryption industry in Asia, making Asia gradually become the center of the Web3 world.
Therefore, Zebec Protocol is expected to enter the potential Asian market by launching Zebec Card, and promote the early development of flow payment business in this region, capturing more Asian users for the ecology.
In addition, it also plans to upgrade and launch a new Zebec Card in the UK/EU region: it will cooperate with a new bank to restart Zebec Card in Europe, and support the payment support of a package of assets such as USDC, Euro, and SOL.
l Q1 in 2024: Enter the Latin American market and integrate Zebec Treasury applications, RWA and other applications
In Q1 of 2024, Zebec APP further plans to launch a brand-new Zebec Card in markets such as Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina in Latin America to capture users more widely. In addition, the Zebec APP will also launch a Treasury yield management tool, which will be integrated with the Zebec Treasury application and tokenized RWA assets.
Zebec payroll product line:
At present, Zebec Protocol is in-depth deployment of the salary distribution field based on the flow payment system, and Zebec payroll is the main execution tool for this part. It is reported that Zebec payroll plans to launch a new salary payment tool WageLink On-Demand Pay (on-demand payment) in September 2023. This tool is launched by Zebec PayCard and Earned Wage Access salary application, PayBridge (owned by Zebec) and other Asure HCM partner companies in the United States, which will make Zebec payroll's salary payment function more flexible and meet users' needs more widely. need.
And in Q1/Q2 of 2024: Zebec payroll integrates Circle’s USDC as a Web3 connection function in the WageLink payroll application, and connects traditional payroll companies acquired by Zebec to its Web3 product suite
The launch of the new roadmap will help the Web3 world and the Web2 world to establish a more in-depth link, indicating that the Zebec ecology will fully deploy to the Web2 world, which will also help ZBC pass to accumulate long-term value and provide a foundation.