🔥The Market Changed. The UX Didn’t.

DeFi didn’t slow down in 2024 — if anything, it got faster.

Ethereum mainnet surpassed 200 million active addresses, while Layer 2 networks like Arbitrum, Optimism, and zkSync pushed total TVL beyond $20 billion. Liquidity is flying across chains, new protocols launch weekly. Strategies multiply. But for most users?

The actual experience is still clunky.

• Moving assets across chains? Still slow, error-prone, and reliant on bridges with trust assumptions.

• Chasing yield? You need to track rates, factor in lockups, gas, impermanent loss, and hope you're not too late.

• Arbitrage windows? Often sniped by bots within seconds — and that’s if you even notice the opportunity.

• Automation tools? Many are still off-chain, centralized, or reliant on opaque infrastructure you can’t verify.

At the same time, users are becoming more aware. They want on-chain tools, verifiable execution, and more autonomy over their strategies. They’re tired of spreadsheets, alerts, and 3 a.m. transactions. They want agents, not dashboards, they want tools that run entirely on-chain, without compromising on privacy or control.

This is exactly what Z4R0 sets out to build, to answer a very real question: What if DeFi could run itself, not through off-chain bots, but with real, on-chain agents?