ZetaChain announced the beta launch and public waitlist for Anuma, a privacy-first AI interface built on ZetaChain 2.0 AI Interoperability. It's a new layer designed to help developers build applications and agents that work across AI models, preserve private user context, and monetize globally without backend infrastructure. The framing behind the launch draws a direct comparison to Brave's approach to private browsing, applying that same privacy-and-user-control-by-default philosophy to AI interfaces.
What Anuma Actually Does as ZetaChain 2.0's First Consumer Product
Anuma is the first consumer AI interface built on ZetaChain 2.0. The product provides access to multiple leading AI models through a single experience. It supports switching between models without losing context. It's designed so memory remains private and user-controlled throughout that process.
What Two Core Components Actually Make Up ZetaChain 2.0
ZetaChain 2.0 is composed of two core components. The first is an AI Portal, a unified routing and execution layer letting applications access multiple AI model providers without lock-in, with built-in support for availability, fallback, and cost-performance optimization. The second is a Private Memory Layer, a protocol-level memory system designed to keep user context encrypted and permissioned.
What the Private Memory Layer Actually Protects
The Private Memory Layer enables persistent experiences across sessions while maintaining user control over what applications and agents can access. A user's accumulated context and history follows them across different AI models and sessions. That data doesn't stay freely accessible to every application that touches it.
Who Is Actually Behind This Project's Privacy Framing
ZetaChain Core Contributor Ankur Nandwani previously co-created Basic Attention Token (BAT), which powers the Brave browser ecosystem with over 100 million monthly active users. Nandwani said Brave and BAT proved that privacy-first defaults can win at consumer scale. He framed Anuma as applying that same lesson to AI interfaces.
What Developer Tooling Actually Ships Alongside the Consumer Product
Alongside the protocol components, ZetaChain is releasing a developer SDK that packages private persistent memory, cross-model interoperability, and monetization primitives into a single toolkit. The goal is making it straightforward to build privacy-first apps and agents maintaining continuity across sessions, connecting to multiple model providers, and supporting global monetization from onchain settlement to traditional payment processors, without requiring teams to build bespoke infrastructure themselves.
What Scale ZetaChain Had Already Reached Before This Launch
ZetaChain was built to address fragmentation in Web3 by enabling universal apps, applications that can natively access assets like BTC and execute across multiple blockchains through a single platform. In 2025, the ZetaChain network scaled to more than 11.5 million users and processed more than 225 million transactions. That gives this AI interoperability expansion an existing infrastructure base to build on, rather than launching as an entirely new network.
How Access to Anuma Actually Works at This Stage
Users can request early access through Anuma's public waitlist. The product isn't yet universally available and remains in a controlled beta rollout phase, rather than fully open to all users at launch.
Extending an existing blockchain infrastructure's core value proposition into the AI interoperability space, rather than launching as a standalone new project, reflects the same infrastructure-extension strategy seen in OpenServ's enterprise AI reasoning partnership with Neol. Both build AI-specific capability directly on top of an established underlying platform, rather than starting from scratch.
A related pattern shows up in Neura's Bet: AI's Next Leap Is EQ, Not IQ, where a comparable dynamic plays out in a different corner of the market.
Glossary
- Private Memory Layer: A protocol-level system keeping user context encrypted and permissioned, enabling persistent AI experiences without exposing that data broadly.
- AI Portal: A unified routing layer letting applications access multiple AI model providers without being locked into a single one.
- Universal app: An application capable of natively accessing assets and executing functionality across multiple blockchains through a single platform.
Disclaimer
Nothing in this article should be read as financial or investment advice; it is provided for informational purposes only. Confirm current details directly through official ZetaChain announcements.
