Has 188 million ZK tokens staked globally during Week 3 of the ZK Staking Pilot program.

Participated in a $34M funding round for Grvt alongside Delphi, Hack VC, and SIG.

Partnered with Aave for Grvt capital efficiency integration, enabling unified balance management, continuous yield, and instant trading.

Increased target APR for the ZK Staking Pilot Program from 4% to 5%.

Participated in a VIP dinner event with TON blockchain, Introduction, and Web3 Arcadia, attended by representatives from multiple crypto projects and organizations including Kraken, Sui, LayerZero, Conflux, Arrington Capital, Messari, OP Labs, Stellar, Canary Capital, Algorand Foundation, JP Morgan, Circle, and Aleo.

Approved TPP-17 proposal establishing the Immunify Bug Bounty Program with approximately 985 million ZK tokens voting in favor.

Partnered with Phylax to introduce the Bank Stack for tokenized money, RWAs, and enforceable controls, anchored on Ethereum and powered by Prividium.

Partners with Edena to provide confidential settlement infrastructure for bringing a $20B+ pipeline of sovereign assets onchain, enabling proof of compliance, ownership, and solvency without exposing sensitive data.

Increased ZKnomics Staking Pilot Program APR from 3% to 4%.

Co-founder Alex Gluchowski participated in a panel discussion at the HSC Asset Management Conference during Consensus Hong Kong on February 14, 2026.

Passed TPP-16 proposal for ZIP Audit Reimbursement Program 2026 (ZARP v2) with 985 million ZK votes in favor.

Passed governance proposal TPP-15 for ZKsync Association Donation with 950 million ZK tokens voted in favor. Voting begins February 16, 2026, with a 2-day extension mechanism.

GenLayer is building an AI-native blockchain protocol on zkSync that uses 1,000 validators running different LLMs to reach consensus on disputes through a multi-layered appeals process.

Generated $21,640 in revenue, representing a 47.6% year-over-year decrease.

Has 257,000 monthly users, representing a 51.4% year-over-year decrease.

Had 17,000 active addresses that were also active on at least one other Layer 2 or Ethereum Mainnet during the week ending February 9, 2026, representing 59.8% of zkSync's total active addresses.

Integrated Chainlink standard during the week of February 2-8, 2026.

Ranked 3rd among Layer 2 projects by development activity in Santiment screener

Holds $415 million in total value locked as of February 2026.

Seeks funding for the bug bounty program on Immunefi, including forward-looking bug bounties and reimbursement for bug bounty payouts made in 2025.

Anthony Rose departed after 4 years with the organization.

Delegated 180M ZK tokens; 173M ZK tokens (0.83% supply) unlock February 19, 2026, for OKX Ventures, Coinbase, Hashed, Consensys.

Trades at $0.16 on Upbit and $0.034 on Binance as of February 1, 2026, showing significant price discrepancy between exchanges.

Deployed hybrid perp DEX on zkSync with CEX-like UX and on-chain settlement.

Experienced an outage of its Etherscan explorer service on January 23, 2026.

Generated $34.1K in real revenue over the 30-day period ending around January 21, 2026.

Expected to announce its 2026 roadmap on January 20, 2026.

Era accumulated $38.13M in finance-related gas fees as measured on growthepie.eth.

Listed on Upbit spot market on January 6, 2026 at 09:30 UTC.

Listed on Upbit, South Korea's largest regulated cryptocurrency exchange.

Successfully reproduced zk verifiers and host programs for all elastic chains using boojum, with verification steps publicly documented.

Participates as a featured speaker in a Twitter Spaces event on modular L2 future scheduled for 2026-01-07.

Paid $0.0004 in rent to Ethereum L1 per active address over the past 30 days (as of 2026-01-02), the lowest among major Layer 2 networks measured.

Resolved a $5M exploit using quantum-resistant proofs.

Joined the zkSync Security Council in 2025 through Nethermind Security's appointment.

Nominated for "Best In Privacy" award by The Rollup, with winner to be announced on December 30th, 2025.

Binance removes ZK/FDUSD from cross and isolated margin trading pairs effective December 23, 2025, at 09:00.

Launched ZKsync Managed Services, offering production-grade ZK Stack chains with RPC, block explorer, indexers, and event delivery 24/7.

zkSync operates a grant program valued at $100-300M+, positioning it among the largest L2 incentive programs alongside Arbitrum and Optimism.

zkSync is building Prividiums, a privacy-focused feature at the core of its development roadmap.

zkSync changes $ZK token design to align incentives and address the issue of institutional users utilizing infrastructure without requiring the token.

Deprecates Lite Network on May 4, 2026, with funds remaining claimable after deprecation.

A token unlock on December 17 will expand the float by approximately 3%, adding to supply overhang.

Creator Chain partners with ZEPETO, Asia's largest metaverse platform with 500 million users, as its Web2 distribution channel for onboarding users to the entertainment-focused L2.

Matter Labs collaborates with @oncreator_ to build and operate Creator Chain, a specialized L2 leveraging the ZK Elastic ecosystem, with planned integration to ZEPETO metaverse platform's 500 million user base.

Treasure abandons zkSync for Base after previously receiving a grant and migrating from Arbitrum.

Matter Labs develops and operates oncreator, an entertainment-focused L2 in the Elastic network for creator ownership and monetization, with a January launch planned and early applications including ZTX mobile and KOL streaming tools.

Delphi Digital releases new report on zkSync, stating the project achieves tangible success onboarding global financial enterprises and providing financial infrastructure with cryptographic guarantees and privacy on demand.

The Airbender proof system achieves 15,000+ TPS with one-second ZK finality, proving zkSync blocks in under 3 seconds on one GPU while sustaining 1M+ daily transactions for under $100. September 1 deployment brought 200ms block times with instant transaction confirmation for HFT.

zkSync ranks #1 on LunarCrush AltRank today, leading all cryptocurrencies in social momentum and market strength metrics.

Deprecating zkSync Lite in 2026, requiring users to withdraw remaining funds.

ADI Foundation launches ADIChain and $ADI token, built on ZKsync infrastructure. ADIChain has partnerships with BlackRock, Mastercard, and FTI Global for blockchain deployment targeting governments and institutions in MENA and Africa.

zkSync Atlas provides technical solutions for L1/L2 liquidity fragmentation. The project co-hosts Proof of Brunch networking event in Abu Dhabi on December 11 with Blockdaemon and Marinade Finance.

Active users increased 355% this week and transactions increased 74%, with $64k flowing into the $ZK token.

Aave DAO winds down Aave V3 operations on zkSync due to low performance and insufficient revenue generation, part of a refocusing strategy on profitable chains with minimum $2M yearly revenue requirements.

ZKsync Lite (ZKsync 1.0) will be deprecated in 2026 as a planned sunset, not affecting other ZKsync systems.

The Sandbox launched SANDchain on October 1, 2025, using zkSync to power creator-economy tools including SANDpoints, Creator Tokens, and Patron Vaults.

Deutsche Bank and UBS have deployed L2s on the network.

Enabled ZKsync Interop for all ZK Chains with Ethereum DeFi, shipped Elastic Network for 20+ zkChains, and introduced Prividiums for enterprise privacy.

Ethereum's Fusaka milestone delivers more data throughput, more L1 bandwidth, and better wallet UX to the network.

New X Space series debuts December 3 at 8am EST featuring Memento, a fund tokenization infrastructure project bringing TradFi onchain to the ecosystem.

Aave DAO votes on shutting down its zkSync instance along with Metis and Soneium deployments, requiring all future Aave deployments to generate at least $2M USD.

Token unlock of $6.58M (3.26% of float) scheduled for December 17, 2025.

zkSync gateway is tagged as a blob posting L2 alongside Aztec Network, XLayer, Jovay Network, and Forknet. (ID: 1995421666202341881)

Association releases 2024-2025 Operational Report marking one year since establishment, while two governance proposals (TPP-14 and GAP-4) pass with 920M ZK votes each, adjusting TokenGovernor and GovOpsGovernor parameters.

Ethrex_client begins integration of Airbender proof system following discussions at eth_proofs event about ongoing usability improvements.

Matter Labs participates as investor in GRVT's $34M funding round at $540M valuation alongside Delphi Ventures, Susquehanna International Group, Hack VC, QCP Capital, Matrix Partners, 500 Global, and Further Ventures.

Thread analyzing L2 performance states zkSync Era sees approximately $1k daily fee revenue and describes the chain as quiet, falling short of mainnet expectations compared to testnet hype.

Part II of the $ZK token proposal releases, outlining a utility framework based on institutional coordination through ZK interoperability as a shared cryptographic fabric.

Achieves #1 LunarCrush AltRank ranking, the strongest relative position across the entire crypto market, with climbing social and market activity over recent hours.

Launches bug bounty program for Airbender, its next-generation proof system for RISC-V bytecode execution, offering $100,000 rewards.

Holdstation trading platform with $69B+ volume integrates via Chainlink CCIP, enabling cross-chain HOLD token transfers between BNB Chain, Berachain, and zkSync. Governance proposal TPP-13 passes with 965M ZK votes in favor, assigning Minter Role to Gov Infra Capped Minter.

ZK sector (including aztec and miden) emerges as the undisputed top 3 narrative in crypto market mindshare for the week.

DAO votes to reduce governance timing for Token Program Proposals, cutting VotingDelay from 7 days to 3 days and LateQuorumVoteExtension from 7 days to 2 days to align with the improved ZIP framework.

Governance proposal ZIP-14 passed with 909M ZK tokens voting in favor, upgrading the token with a permissionless burn function.

ETHGlobal Buenos Aires hackathon Day 2 features Bitcoin and ZK integration as a hot topic with developers building private Bitcoin applications.

Ozhar appears live at NYSE on TakingStockLive at 4pm ET to discuss privacy as a catalyst for institutional adoption and how the project enables scalable, private, and compliant onchain rails.

Airbender team completes mainnet proofs using two 5090 gaming GPUs with ~1kW power consumption ahead of upcoming demo, achieving L1 EVM block proving on consumer-grade hardware.

Atlas synchronization feature announced, and collaboration with Grvt revealed to transform liquidity into onchain markets.

$ZK records $55,000 in smart money inflow over the past 24 hours, ranking fourth among projects tracked for smart wallet accumulation activity.

zkSync hosts CasaZK event in Argentina and teases upcoming announcement about LNET partnership focused on Trust-Based Finance and Prividiums technology.

Ranks 6th among crypto projects based on combined social and market metrics, demonstrating active community engagement and strong market performance during weak overall market conditions.

A token unlock exceeding $5 million is scheduled within the next seven days according to Tokenomist.

$ZK unlocks 173 million tokens on November 17, representing 3.37% of current circulation and valued at approximately $8.96 million.

Approves onchain revenue and launches $ZK staking pilot program.

zkSync wins the Uniswap Cup championship among 32 competing blockchain teams.

The DAO votes to upgrade the token to ZKTokenV3, introducing a burn mechanism aligned with ZKnomics.

zkSync participates in Casa ZK Institutional Day panel on November 19 at DevConnect Buenos Aires, focusing on instant finance solutions alongside 0xSANDchain, CapyFi Protocol, and Dynamic.

zkSync holds #1 position on ENS domains ahead of tomorrow's UNICUP event.

LunarCrush AltRank lists zkSync among current winners with real momentum, with the privacy sector showing outperformance.

The first production ZKsync Prividium goes live with Memento_Bc, bringing banks onchain.

Ozhar appears on Nasdaq TradeTalks to discuss Prividiums, a technology enabling institutions to build onchain with verifiability and privacy.

Grvt announces its Atlas upgrade coming soon, leveraging ZKsync's Atlas technology to connect chains and enable real-time yield earning on Ethereum while trading on Grvt.

Grvt, a privacy-first perpetual DEX built on zkSync, lists zkSync among its backers alongside Further Ventures, EigenCloud, 500 Global, and Delphi Ventures.

Aave votes to remove $ZK as collateral and set LTV to zero due to high risk and low revenue generation following oracle issues during the 10/10 crash.

ZKsync's Atlas feature enables Grvt to build an onchain market layer of Ethereum.

Privacy and zk-related coins including $ZK pump as beta plays after $ZEC rallies 14x in 40 days to $750.

Product team member writes for Ethereum.org about Prividiums, a technology enabling institutions to build and operate private systems on the Ethereum network with compliance and control requirements.

$ZK futures go live on OrderlyNetwork offering 10x leveraged trading on a fully decentralized orderbook before the token generation event.

The team presents at Singapore Fintech Festival (@sgfintechfest) this week, focusing on private and compliant financial infrastructure.