Zilliqa is becoming an Ethereum Layer 2.
For nine years Zilliqa has built and run its own Layer 1. The next chapter builds on Ethereum: its security, its liquidity and its institutional reach. We focus on the one thing institutions still miss on-chain: knowing who they are dealing with.
- Settlement secured by Ethereum.
- Identity and compliance built into the network itself.
- One token: ZIL.
Every participant is verified before the first trade.
The vLEI is the verifiable version of the Legal Entity Identifier, the global standard overseen by GLEIF. It proves cryptographically which legal entity is acting, and which person is authorised to act for it.
Together with LTIN (Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network), which is becoming a qualified vLEI issuer (QVI), we issue vLEIs directly on the ZIL Layer 2.
A permissioned market for institutional participants. Compliantly.
A compliant, hybrid DeFi space: for institutional participants first, and open to other participants at a later stage.
On ZIL, access is permissioned by identity, not by a private network. Only wallets whitelisted through a verified vLEI can transact. Everything else works like any Ethereum L2: public, auditable and settled on Ethereum.
- Liquidity and trading through permissioned exchanges.
- Settlement on Ethereum.
Execution is solved. Identity is not.
- Around 2 million legal entities hold an active LEI today. Banks, funds and asset managers already need one to trade.
- Regulation is arriving: MiCAR and the next EU rules expect to know who is behind every transaction.
- Tokenised assets need a home where only verified institutions can hold and trade them.
One network. Verified participants. Settled on Ethereum.
Institutions
ZIL · Ethereum Layer 2
Ethereum
Transaction batches are posted to Ethereum mainnet.Settlement and security come from Ethereum.- Nine years of building and running a public blockchain, from sharding to Zilliqa 2.0.
- Identity-based access: wallets whitelisted through vLEIs.
- A partnership with LTIN on verifiable identity in Liechtenstein, a jurisdiction with a dedicated blockchain law.
- A global community, and one token: ZIL.
AI agents will move money. Someone has to answer for them.
The LEI
A global 20-character ID for legal entities (ISO 17442), introduced after the 2008 crisis and overseen by GLEIF. Regulators require it; about 2 million entities hold one.
The vLEI
Its verifiable, digital form. Software can check it in under a second, and it proves who may act for the entity, a person or an agent, within limits that can be revoked.
Agentic finance
Before accepting an agent's transaction, a counterparty must know who stands behind it, what it may do and who is accountable. A wallet address can't say. A vLEI can.
Why the vLEI will be the standard
- Built on regulation. The LEI is already required; the vLEI makes it machine-readable.
- Open and neutral. Governed by GLEIF, owned by no company, tied to no chain.
- Explicit delegation. Authority from board to agent can be verified and revoked.
- A full audit trail. Every action traces back to an entity and its mandate.
Further reading: the Agentic Finance Report (2026). Zilliqa and LTIN will be featured in its upcoming second edition.
We are looking for the first institutions on ZIL.
Banks, asset managers, funds and issuers who want to trade tokenised assets with verified counterparties: let's talk.