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US and EU users who prioritise a spotless security record — no major hack since 2011 — and want a serious pro-grade trading terminal.
Institutions and funds requiring an SEC-registered venue with segregated qualified custody and audited on-chain reserves.
Active spot traders chasing the deepest global liquidity and the widest listing catalogue outside the US perimeter.
Traders who mix spot and on-chain — the Web3 wallet, DEX aggregator and Ethereum L2 X Layer sit inside the same account as CEX pairs.
Long-horizon EU holders who want the oldest continuously-operating exchange (2011) with conservative listings and full MiCA licensing.
Derivatives-first traders who want tighter perp funding and a maker-friendly fee schedule; accept offshore regulatory footprint.
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Zilliqa is a Layer 1 blockchain that launched mainnet in January 2019 and holds a unique place in blockchain history: it was the first production blockchain to implement sharding as its primary scalability mechanism. Founded in 2017 by Prateek Saxena (a cryptography researcher from the National University of Singapore) and Amrit Kumar, the project set out to solve the throughput limitations of first-generation blockchains by dividing the network into parallel processing shards.
The native token is ZIL. It pays gas, participates in staking, and is used within the Zilliqa gaming and metaverse ecosystem that the team has built out since 2021. The total supply of ZIL is capped at 21 billion tokens — a deliberate parallel to Bitcoin's 21 million cap, scaled by a factor of 1,000. Zilliqa introduced Scilla, a purpose-built smart contract language designed for formal verification of contract correctness, as an alternative to Solidity.
ZIL is traded on major centralized exchanges with most volume in ZIL/USDT pairs. The live price on this page refreshes every 60 seconds as a volume-weighted average.
Price catalysts to monitor:
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Sharding divides a blockchain network into subsets (shards) that process transactions in parallel. Traditional blockchains require every node to process every transaction; sharding means each shard handles only its portion. Zilliqa implements network sharding and transaction sharding, though in its original design it kept a single shard for smart contract execution to avoid cross-shard contract complexity.
How Zilliqa's sharding works in practice:
The design delivered measurable throughput gains on mainnet — Zilliqa consistently achieved 2,500 to 3,000 TPS under load, far ahead of Bitcoin or 2019-era Ethereum. The trade-off is complexity: sharding introduces harder distributed systems challenges that pure single-chain designs avoid.
While most blockchains adopted or derived from Solidity, Zilliqa built a custom smart contract language called Scilla (Safe-by-Design Intermediate-Level LAnguage). Scilla's design philosophy is security-first: it restricts the language so that certain classes of smart contract bugs are impossible to write, not just detectable after the fact.
The academic rigor of Scilla never translated into widespread adoption. Most DeFi developers chose Solidity's larger ecosystem over Scilla's safety guarantees. The addition of EVM in Zilliqa 2.0 was partly a response to this.
After 2021, Zilliqa shifted significant resources toward gaming, NFTs, and the Metapolis metaverse. Zilliqa 2.0 was a major protocol upgrade that introduced EVM compatibility, a new consensus mechanism (moving away from the original pBFT approach), improved staking, and lower transaction finality times. The upgrade was rolled out across 2023-2024.
Key Zilliqa 2.0 changes:
ZIL's total supply is capped at 21 billion tokens. Staking on Zilliqa is non-custodial through the Zillion staking portal, where holders delegate to validators (called seed nodes in earlier documentation) and earn ZIL rewards.
ZIL is listed on most major exchanges and has been since 2018. It is one of the more accessible 2017-era altcoins.
See our Zilliqa price forecast for analysis of ZIL price targets across market cycles.
Zilliqa was a genuine technical innovator in 2017-2019, but the blockchain landscape shifted significantly around it.
This page is information, not financial advice. Seek independent financial advice before investing in any cryptocurrency.
Analysis last updated:
Zilliqa (ZIL) trades at $0.002452 with a 24-hour volume of $20.69M and a market capitalization of $47.85M. The asset is currently ranked #444 among all tracked cryptocurrencies.
In the last 24 hours, the ZIL price has fallen +0.07%. On a seven-day window, Zilliqa has retraced +16.27%, under sustained selling pressure on both windows. Short-term moves are often amplified by liquidity, news flow, and derivatives positioning, so confirm signals across multiple indicators before acting.
Zilliqa's all-time high of $0.255376 was set on May 6, 2021. The current price sits +99.04% below that peak. Distance from the all-time high is a common reference point when evaluating long recoveries and macro support or resistance.
Buying Zilliqa (ZIL) is a five-step routine once you have picked the right venue and pair. The steps below mirror what most investors do today.
You can also use the Zilliqa converter above to estimate how much ZIL you would get for a given dollar amount before placing the order.
Whether Zilliqa is a good investment depends on your goals, time horizon, and tolerance for volatility. Like all cryptocurrencies, ZIL carries real market risk: prices can rise or fall sharply in a day, and past performance is not a reliable indicator of future returns.
This page provides data and analysis for educational purposes only. It is not financial advice. Always do your own research, diversify, and never invest more than you can afford to lose.
