Odaily Planet Daily News Zeus Network founder and CEO Justin Wang stated: "In 2025, it is expected that billions of dollars in liquidity will be achieved through the globally leading technology of Zeus Network to realize decentralized on-chain revenue." With Zeus Network recently achieving multiple milestones, the total market value of ZEUS has returned to $1 billion. At 10:00 AM Beijing time on December 5, Zeus Network officially launched the ZeusNode and ZEUS staking functions. It is reported that ZeusNode is the core infrastructure built on the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), supporting ZeusLayer and establishing its role as the 1.5 layer of Solana, enhancing Solana's liquidity through permissionless Bitcoin integration. At the same time, this update is a prelude to the beta launch of the ZeusLayer mainnet, aiming to prepare fully for receiving Bitcoin. On December 13, Zeus Network successfully completed the first Bitcoin transaction verification on Solana through the seamless collaboration of core infrastructures such as ZeusNode Operator, ZeusNode Guardian, and ZPL, marking the first step for permissionless Bitcoin liquidity to flow into Solana. Through the open-source ZPL, Zeus Network also welcomes more dApp integrations in the future. On December 30, Zeus Network launched the APOLLO mainnet v1 and opened zBTC minting, allowing users to deposit BTC into APOLLO to mint zBTC. As of the time of publication, approximately 13 zBTC have been minted.