Zilliqa
“Can Zilliqa's high-throughput blockchain become the infrastructure layer for Web3-native embedded finance applications at scale?”
Zilliqa launched as a Layer-1 public blockchain platform focused on high throughput via sharding, targeting use cases from financial services to NFTs. Over time, the ecosystem expanded beyond infrastructure to include embedded finance applications — a neobank (Zeeves), a BNPL startup (Nyayomat), and stablecoin integrations (BUSD via Binance). By 2025, Zilliqa was positioning itself as a platform for Web3 business finance by partnering with Request Finance for crypto-native payroll and accounting operations, signaling a pivot from pure blockchain infrastructure toward an application ecosystem with embedded finance at the center.