Zebec Network (ZBCN)

Another quarter, another $ZBCN buyback done. 48.5M tokens repurchased and locked out of circulation for good. With the final unlock cleared back in March, there's no fresh supply left to offset. Every revenue-funded buyback now bites straight into circulating supply. Isn't this what sustainable tokenomics should look like?

This is the whole Zebec stack in your pocket now. Cards, payroll, streaming payments, staking, one app, now live on iOS and Android. 😎 Which piece will get used most from day one?

From crypto payments going mainstream to record-breaking RWA trading and cheaper Layer 2 transactions, infrastructure kept moving this week. This time it's: $ZBCN ( @Zebec_HQ ) $HYPE ( @HyperliquidX ) $ARB ( @arbitrum ) Here are 3 stories you shouldn't miss 👇 1️⃣ Zebec Launches SuperApp on Mobile ( $ZBCN ) Zebec officially launched its SuperApp on iOS and Android, bringing payments, payroll, staking, and crypto cards into a single self-custodial app. 🔹 iOS & Android launch 🔹 Mastercard crypto cards 🔹 Native $ZBCN staking 🔹 Multi-chain wallet support The release marks Zebec's biggest push yet toward becoming an all-in-one crypto finance app. 2️⃣ Hyperliquid RWA Open Interest Hits $3.6B ( $HYPE ) Hyperliquid's real-world asset markets reached a new all-time high, with total platform open interest climbing to $11B. 🔹 $3.6B RWA open interest 🔹 $11B total platform OI 🔹 HIP-3 markets driving growth 🔹 Equities, indices & commodities The numbers show growing demand for on-chain exposure to traditional markets. 3️⃣ Arbitrum Rolls Out Dynamic Pricing ( $ARB ) Arbitrum is spotlighting its resource-based gas pricing model designed to make fees fairer and more predictable. 🔹 Resource-based gas fees 🔹 Less fee subsidization 🔹 Better cost predictability 🔹 Higher scaling potential Instead of charging everyone the same way, Arbitrum wants users to pay only for the resources they actually consume.

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$ZBCN : Review 📜 What if your salary landed in your wallet every second you worked, and you could spend it at a store before the workday was even over? Meet Zebec Network, a payments company built on streaming finance. Instead of paying people in batches every two weeks, Zebec moves money continuously, then wires that on-chain salary into the real world through a Mastercard-linked card, a payroll SuperApp, and its own chain. It is one of the few crypto projects with genuine rails into the traditional payment system. Let's explore where the real infrastructure ends and the hype begins. 👇 ⚪ Zebec at a Glance Marketplace Insight: Zebec sits in the emerging PayFi category, using blockchain to rebuild payroll and payments, and it has done the rare thing of plugging into real financial infrastructure. Membership in the Nacha Payments Innovation Alliance, ISO 20022 compliance, live Mastercard and Visa cards, and $500M-plus in annual payroll volume are concrete. The clean contrast, and the necessary caution, is that these are technical integrations and an industry-association membership, not endorsements. JP Morgan has not invested in the token, and being a Nacha co-member alongside JP Morgan and ADP is not a partnership with them. The rails are real. The implied blessing from Wall Street is not. ⚪ Mission Zebec's mission is to make money move as continuously as information does, starting with payroll. The thesis is that the two-week pay cycle is an artifact of legacy banking, and that streaming settlement, paying and spending in real time, is a better default for workers, employers, and merchants. Everything Zebec builds, from the card to the chain to the payroll acquisitions, serves that single idea of money in motion. 🔵 A Brief History Zebec launched in 2021 on Solana as a continuous-settlement protocol, founded by Sam Thapaliya, who has spoken about growing up in Nepal without seeing a bank until he was thirteen. The early product streamed salaries by the second, and the project raised over $35M from a roster spanning crypto-native and traditional venture, including Solana Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, Breyer Capital, Republic, and Lightspeed. The rebrand from Zebec Protocol to Zebec Network came in March 2024, alongside a 1:10 token migration from ZBC to ZBCN and an expansion beyond Solana to BNB Chain, Base, NEAR, and others, plus its own Nautilus chain. The strategy widened from a single protocol into a vertically integrated stack: the Zebec Card launched with Mastercard and Visa in 2025, and Payroll Growth Partners began acquiring licensed traditional payroll companies to bridge the distribution gap. Late 2025 into 2026 was the institutional push. Zebec joined the Nacha Payments Innovation Alliance in December 2025, achieved ISO 20022 compliance, announced NatPay and FedNow integration work, and completed its final token unlock in March 2026, moving ZBCN to a fully distributed, deflationary model. The 2026 roadmap centers on the SuperApp, a mobile launch, card reward tiers, and expansion into DePIN point-of-sale and eSIM connectivity. 🔵 Ecosystem Narrative The organizing idea is vertical integration, owning the chain, the products, and the TradFi connections rather than just shipping a protocol. ➛ Streaming payroll. Salaries settle continuously rather than on a fixed date, the core product and the source of the payroll fees paid in the token. ➛ Zebec Card. A Mastercard and Visa card live across roughly 100-plus countries, spending 150-plus tokens with fiat conversion at checkout and up to 5% cashback in ZBCN, the consumer bridge to real-world spend. ➛ Payroll Growth Partners. An investment arm acquiring licensed traditional payroll firms, including the WageLink app, a genuine attempt to buy distribution rather than wait for organic adoption. ➛ Nautilus chain and DePIN. An EVM-compatible layer-3 tuned for payments, plus ZePIN point-of-sale terminals that let merchants accept stablecoin payments directly. ➛ TradFi rails. Nacha membership, ISO 20022, and NatPay and FedNow integration work aim to connect on-chain streaming to the ACH and instant-payment systems that actually move payroll. ➛ Buyback flywheel. Revenue from payroll, cards, and partner contracts funds open-market ZBCN buybacks, the mechanism meant to tie token supply to real product usage. ⚪ Token Utilities $ZBCN is a utility token whose demand is meant to track product usage rather than base-layer gas. ➛ Payroll fees: employers pay Zebec's payroll processing fees in the token, or have them auto-converted from stablecoin balances. ➛ Staking: holders stake for yield and governance, with staked balances set to unlock tiered card rewards through the SuperApp. ➛ Card spend and cashback: the token funds card spending and earns cashback, linking holding to real-world use. ➛ Governance: holders vote on Zebec Improvement Proposals through a hybrid on-chain and off-chain model. ➛ Buyback sink: product revenue buys ZBCN on the open market, the deflationary counterweight to a now-fixed supply. ⚪ Key Features ➛ Real-time streaming settlement for payroll and recurring payments. ➛ Mastercard and Visa cards with multi-token spend and fiat conversion at the point of sale. ➛ Vertically integrated stack: chain, cards, SuperApp, and acquired payroll firms under one roof. ➛ Nautilus, a dedicated EVM layer-3 for low-cost payment throughput. ➛ TradFi compatibility through ISO 20022 and Nacha alliance membership. ➛ Fixed 100B supply with a live, revenue-funded buyback. 🔵 Meet the Team ➛ Sam Thapaliya [ @sam_thapaliya ] - Founder | Founded Zebec in 2021 after a path from rural Nepal to Menlo College, and is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in Web3 infrastructure. Leads vision and the push to fuse streaming payments with traditional payroll. ➛ Sajjan Thapaliya [ @Saj_Thapaliya ] - Co-Founder | Co-founded the project and contributes across product and operations as Zebec expanded from a single protocol into a multi-product network. ➛ Simon Babakhani - CEO | Runs the company day to day, driving operations, business development, and the institutional partnerships behind the Nacha, ISO 20022, and card relationships. ➛ Elena Solovyov [ @esolovyov ] - CMO, and Stelios Gerogiannakis - Head of Engineering | Lead marketing and engineering respectively, carrying the brand and the technical build across the multi-chain stack. ➛ Neal Padhye - Head of M&A and Capital Markets | Owns the acquisition engine behind Payroll Growth Partners, the roll-up of licensed payroll firms that is central to Zebec's distribution strategy. ➛ JV Vink [ @JV_Vink ] - Head of Business Development | Leads business development, driving the enterprise, partner, and card-distribution relationships that turn Zebec's integrations into real payroll and spend volume. ➛ Payroll Growth Partners | The load-bearing non-person entity. A licensed investment arm acquiring traditional payroll processors across multiple US states, which is how Zebec intends to shortcut the distribution problem that sinks most payroll upstarts. An advisory bench including Solana Foundation president Lily Liu and investor Joe McCann rounds out the roster. 🔵 Ratings ➛ Use Case: ★★★★✦ (4.5/5). Zebec leads the narrow niche it actually competes in: crypto-native, vertically integrated payroll and payments. Against protocol-only streaming rivals like Superfluid and Sablier, it has the most complete stack and the traction to match, over $500M in annual payroll volume, 250-plus enterprise clients, live Mastercard and Visa cards across roughly 100 countries, and genuine TradFi integrations in Nacha and ISO 20022. Owning the chain, the cards, and acquired payroll firms is a real strategy rather than a slogan. The 0.5-point deduction is the wall beyond that niche. Streaming payroll remains small against incumbents like ADP, Deel, and Rippling with vastly larger distribution, and the gap between institutional-integration headlines and scaled everyday usage is still wide. ➛ Tokenomics: ★★★★ (4/5). This is a genuinely strong axis. With the final unlock completed in March 2026, ZBCN is fully distributed against a fixed 100B cap, so there is no vesting overhang left, and the supply is now deflationary through a revenue-funded buyback that has run since late 2023. Utility is live across payroll fees, staking, card cashback, and governance rather than promised for later. The 1-point deduction is verification and history. The buyback's scale rests on Zebec's own reported revenue figures, which are not independently audited, the early distribution was venture-heavy with backers who have realized returns into the market, and a 100B supply at a fraction of a cent is optically engineered for retail. Real structure, self-reported fuel. ➛ Audits: ★★★★✦ (4.5/5). Zebec holds a verified CertiK Skynet Score of 86.9 (AA), earned across five audits with no critical-severity vulnerabilities, which places it firmly in the top-tier verified band. The broader stack is deep and named: Trail of Bits, Halborn, CertiK, and Bramah Systems, plus an Immunefi bug bounty and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance work reflecting the payroll and card obligations. The 0.5-point deduction stays honest even at this tier. CertiK's own review flagged a major centralization-risk finding, and the real surface extends well past the audited contracts, spanning Solana, BNB Chain, Base, NEAR, and the Nautilus layer-3 alongside off-chain card and payroll rails and custodial fiat conversion. ➛ Community: ★★★★ (4/5). Zebec has a large, active base: over 100,000 holders, 15B tokens staked, broad exchange support, functioning ZIP governance, and a genuine backbone of enterprise users and cardholders rather than pure speculators. The 1-point deduction is quality and framing. A meaningful share of the token's attention is retail and price-prediction driven, and the community has repeatedly circulated misleading institutional-endorsement narratives, most notably conflating a JP Morgan technology integration with an investment, the kind of overclaiming that a legitimate product story does not need and should correct more firmly. 🔵 Conclusion Zebec is a rare crypto project that has built genuine bridges into the traditional payment system rather than just describing them. Streaming payroll with real volume, live Mastercard and Visa cards, Nacha membership, ISO 20022 compliance, and a vertically integrated stack that reaches from its own chain down to acquired payroll firms. On tokenomics it is genuinely well positioned: fully distributed, fixed supply, and a deflationary buyback tied to product revenue, backed by a verified AA security posture. The bull case is clean. If money really does move to real-time rails, and if Zebec's Nacha access, card, and payroll acquisitions convert into scaled, everyday volume, then a fully distributed, deflationary token sitting on genuine TradFi infrastructure has a demand story most payment tokens can only pitch. Zebec has built the rails and the products, which is more than most in this category can claim. What it still has to prove is that real usage, not partnership headlines, is what drives the token. The infrastructure is real. The adoption, and the honesty of the story told around it, is what has to catch up.

Who's holding $ZBCN right now? 👇 You need to read this because the project quietly evolved into something most people still misunderstand. Zebec isn't just an RWA token. It's becoming payment infrastructure for how the world gets paid. The core idea is beautiful in its simplicity. Instead of waiting two weeks for a paycheck, your earnings stream in real time. Continuous payroll. Instant access. Flexible payouts. Money flowing the moment work happens, not weeks later. The developments backing this are real. RLUSD is already live settling enterprise payroll on Zebec's rails as of May 2026. The SuperApp Mobile, bundling payroll, cards, and staking into one platform, entered final testing for a Q2 2026 launch. ZBCN became accessible through iTrustCapital's crypto IRAs in late May, opening tax-advantaged access for U.S. investors. The institutional groundwork runs deep. Membership in the NACHA Payments Innovation Alliance, which governs the $85 trillion U.S. ACH network. Selection as Stellar's global stablecoin payroll provider. Zebec Cards live across 97 countries. This is what I want holders to see clearly. The token supply is now mature and increasingly deflationary, with the final scheduled unlock completed in March 2026. Early investor selling pressure is behind us. The network is entering its utility-driven phase. Zebec is targeting the $170+ billion payroll and ACH settlement market. That's not hype. That's a real problem affecting billions of working people. $ZBCN powers the rails solving it.