LayerZero said on July 24 that it will wind down offchain support for 20 low-activity chains, ending service for its Decentralized Verifier Network, or DVN, and Executor across those networks. Stargate v2, which runs on LayerZero, will also stop supporting five of them. The company warned that users who fail to act before support is fully terminated on each chain could lose access to their funds.
The phaseout will happen in four batches, with the first deadline arriving on July 30.
Shutdown schedule covers 20 chains
According to the announcement, LayerZero’s DVN and Executor services will be removed on the following dates:
- Effective July 30: Botanix
- Effective July 31: Moonriver, Moonbeam, Nexera, Canto
- Effective August 28: EDU Chain, Meter, Shimmer, Cyber, Silicon, Sophon, Bitlayer, DFK Chain, Arbitrum Nova, DOS Chain
- Effective September 30: Aurora, Taiko, BounceBit, Japan Open Chain, LightLink
After those dates, the 20 chains will no longer receive LayerZero-operated message verification and delivery services.
The same notice said Stargate v2 will end support for five of the affected chains on matching dates:
- Botanix: July 30
- EDU Chain: August 28
- Aurora: September 30
- Taiko: September 30
- LightLink: September 30
Stargate users on five chains have chain-specific steps
LayerZero included separate warnings for holders of certain assets on those networks:
- Botanix: Users holding USDC.e and WETH should first bridge funds to another chain that still supports Hydra, then redeem through Stargate Pools.
- EDU Chain: Users holding USDC.e should bridge funds back to Stargate Pools before the cutoff date.
- Aurora: Stargate Pool liquidity providers holding S*USDC should withdraw funds from the USDC pool before support ends.
- Taiko: Users holding USDC.e and Hydra USDT should bridge to Stargate Pools before the deadline.
- LightLink: Users holding Stargate Hydra USDC.e or USDT should bridge to Stargate Pools, while ETH liquidity providers holding S*ETH should withdraw from the ETH pool.
LayerZero wrote: “Stargate users should redeem assets from these chains (USDC.e, wETH, USDT). If no action is taken before chain support is fully terminated, access to funds will be lost.”
The company also recommended that users holding Stargate Pool or Stargate Hydra assets bridge first to chains with deeper liquidity, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BSC.
Endpoint contracts stay onchain
The shutdown applies to LayerZero Labs-operated offchain services, not to the onchain Endpoint contracts themselves. The announcement said the Endpoint contracts are immutable and will remain deployed, meaning the message-passing logic is not being removed from the chain.
Still, without an official DVN to verify messages and an Executor to deliver them, those networks will no longer have LayerZero’s managed path for message validation and execution. For ordinary users, that means cross-chain functionality on the affected chains will effectively stop working in practice.
Users are being told to check wallets before deadlines
The practical instruction in the notice is straightforward: users should check whether their wallet addresses hold assets on any of the 20 chains. If they hold Stargate-related assets such as USDC.e, wETH, USDT, S*USDC, or S*ETH, they need to complete bridging or redemption before the relevant effective date.
LayerZero also cautioned users not to wait until the last day, noting that congestion onchain or bridge queues could cause them to miss the available window.
Support is being narrowed to more active networks
The move shows LayerZero reducing official coverage for lower-activity chains. As described in the announcement, the earlier push to support as many networks as possible is giving way to a narrower allocation of resources toward chains with higher activity.