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• ZIGChain adds Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs to its ecosystem.
• Partnership expands onchain access to US financial markets.
• Rollout begins in phases across selected ZIGChain applications.

ZIGChain announced on Monday that it is integrating with Ondo Finance to bring tokenized US stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to users across its blockchain ecosystem, expanding access to on-chain versions of traditional financial assets.

The partnership combines ZIGChain’s infrastructure for regulated investment products with Ondo Finance’s tokenized securities platform, extending their shared goal of making publicly traded US assets more accessible through blockchain technology.

According to the companies, the integration strengthens ZIGChain’s broader real-world asset (RWA) ecosystem, which already includes Valdora Finance’s Liquid RWA Vaults and Beehive’s tokenized small and medium-sized enterprise private credit pipeline.

Partnership expands tokenized asset ecosystem

ZIGChain said the integration aligns with its strategy of bringing established financial products onchain rather than creating entirely new investment instruments.

Ondo Finance has developed infrastructure that enables publicly traded US stocks and ETFs to be represented as programmable blockchain-based assets.

Through the partnership, these tokenized products will become available across the ZIGChain ecosystem, with a particular focus on expanding access for users in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and beyond.

The companies said the collaboration is designed to provide onchain exposure to institutional-grade financial products while reducing traditional barriers such as intermediaries and minimum investment requirements.

“The next phase of onchain finance is not about replicating access that institutions already have. It is about taking those instruments and making them genuinely accessible to a broader universe of participants, through transparent, scalable onchain infrastructure, without the minimums and intermediaries that have always stood in the way,” said Abdul Rafay Gadit, Co-Founder, ZIGChain.

“Ondo has done the hard work of bringing these products onchain. ZIGChain is the infrastructure through which that reaches a new generation of users. For us, this is deeply aligned with our mission: to make high-quality financial opportunities more open, more programmable, and more globally accessible.”

Ondo aims to broaden distribution

Ondo Finance said expanding access to tokenized securities across new blockchain ecosystems is a core part of its strategy.

The company, which focuses on tokenizing real-world assets, has built infrastructure intended to bridge traditional financial markets with decentralized networks.

Through Ondo Global Markets, investors outside the United States can gain economic exposure to US stocks and ETFs using blockchain-based tokens backed by the corresponding underlying assets.

“Bringing tokenized US stocks and ETFs to new ecosystems and user bases is core to what the Ondo Global Markets platform enables. ZIGChain’s infrastructure gives investors across the GCC onchain exposure to the world’s most in-demand securities, with the execution quality and transparency that institutional markets demand. This is exactly the kind of distribution that expands the reach of tokenized finance where it matters most,” said Oya Celiktemur, EMEA Director, Ondo Finance.

Rollout to begin in phases

According to the announcement, access to Ondo-tokenized products through ZIGChain will be introduced gradually, beginning with selected ecosystem applications and partners before expanding more broadly over time.

The companies noted that the integration does not represent a token launch and does not guarantee investment returns or yield.

Underlying assets are issued by Ondo Global Markets (BVI) Limited, while ZIGChain does not custody the underlying real-world assets.

The partnership comes as blockchain companies continue to focus on tokenizing traditional financial instruments, seeking to combine regulated market exposure with the accessibility and programmability offered by decentralized infrastructure.

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• Hayes exited ZEC after an Orchard privacy bug raised supply doubts.
• He also liquidated HYPE and NEAR while rotating his portfolio.
• The Zcash flaw was patched, but future exploitation cannot be ruled out.

Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, has fully exited his positions in Zcash (ZEC), Hyperliquid (HYPE), and NEAR Protocol (NEAR).

The decision comes at a time when the crypto market is still digesting the implications of a flaw found in the Orchard shielded pool, a core component of Zcash’s privacy system.

The move has drawn attention across the digital asset space, not only because of Hayes’ profile as a macro investor, but also due to the nature of the vulnerability, which raised questions about the integrity of ZEC’s supply mechanics inside its shielded environment.

Orchard vulnerability triggers uncertainty in Zcash

The trigger for the sell-off was a vulnerability discovered in the Orchard shielded pool, which is designed to enable private transactions on the Zcash network using zero-knowledge proofs.

The issue raised concerns that, under certain conditions, it may have been theoretically possible to create counterfeit ZEC within the shielded system without immediate detection.

While Zcash developers moved quickly to deploy an emergency patch, the core concern was not just the existence of the bug itself, but the inability to verify whether it had ever been exploited before it was fixed.

Because shielded transactions are designed to be private, there is no straightforward way to retroactively audit all activity in a way that could definitively rule out past abuse.

Market reaction was immediate and sharp.

ZEC experienced a heavy sell-off, with its price falling by over 45% during the height of the reaction.

Liquidity thinned quickly as traders rushed to reduce exposure to an asset suddenly carrying uncertainty around its supply integrity.

The incident reignited a long-running debate around privacy-focused blockchain systems.

While zero-knowledge proofs are widely regarded as one of the strongest cryptographic tools available for privacy, they also introduce complexity that can make historical verification of state changes significantly more difficult compared to transparent blockchains.

Arthur Hayes exits ZEC, HYPE, and NEAR positions

Against this backdrop, Arthur Hayes confirmed that he had fully liquidated his ZEC holdings.

Hayes also closed positions in HYPE and NEAR, signaling a broader portfolio adjustment rather than a single-asset reaction.

Hayes described the situation in blunt terms, stating that what he previously referred to as his “Holy Trinity” thesis no longer held.

The key issue for Hayes was not confirmed exploitation. Instead, it was the presence of unresolved uncertainty.

Even with a patch in place, the inability to definitively prove whether counterfeit issuance had occurred prior to the fix created a level of risk he was no longer willing to carry in a privacy asset.

The Holy Trinity is dead. Sadly due to the Orchard Pool exploit, I had to dump our entire $ZEC bag.
– While I think it’s extremely unlikely of any minting, it cannot be formally cryptographically proved impossible
– The privacy from AI, govt, big tech narrative demands perfection…

— Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) June 5, 2026

Alongside the ZEC exit, Hayes also liquidated positions in HYPE and NEAR.

While no direct technical link was identified between those assets and the Zcash vulnerability, the simultaneous sell-off suggests a broader repositioning of capital rather than an isolated reaction.

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