LayerZero’s market shifting, there’s a better environment ahead for everyone, CEO says
LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino is optimistic about the future of the blockchain industry and the “really important plumbing” LayerZero provides for it. The outlook for the crypto industry is bright. As a matter of fact, the present isn’t even all that grim, Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero, told Cointelegraph at the Collision conference in Toronto. “2015 was basically unbearable. […] Nobody cared; there was nothing. This really doesn't seem that bad to me,” Pellegrino said. LayerZero has seen surging use of its protocol, from 10,000 messages a day six months ago to 650,000 a day now, Pellegrino told Cointelegraph U.S. news editor Sam Bourgi. Its market is rapidly evolving. Pellegrino said: “Historically, it’s been largely DeFi [decentralized finance]. Probably 70% of our overall volume is real DeFi use cases, […] but probably 80% of our inbound is split between gaming and NFTs.” “I think the 36 months moving forward are going to look a lot ...