Zksync era


Tech

The Protocol: Stripe’s Tempo Testnet Goes Live

Also: ZKSync Lite to Sunset, Blockstream App Update, Axelar’s AgentFlux

Contactless payment via a mobile phone (Jonas Lupe/Unsplash)

Tech

ZKsync Lite to Shut Down in 2026 as Matter Labs Moves On

The company framed the move, happening in early 2026, as a planned sunset.

Sunset in San Salvador. Credit: Ricky Mejia, Unsplash

Tech

Ethereum Devs Push ZK ‘Secret Santa’ System Toward Deployment

The proposed protocol uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify sender–receiver relationships without revealing identities.

Santa Claus (Pixabay)

Tech

The Protocol: ZKSync Aims to Revamp Its Tokenomics Model

Also: The First AI Agent App Store, ETH Devs Lock In Fusaka Mainnet Date and Edge & Node’s Ampersand.

Playing cards and poker chips. (Michał Parzuchowski/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

ZKsync Proposal Aims to Tie $ZK Token to Network Revenue

The creator behind the layer-2 has unveiled a proposal to transform its $ZK token from a governance instrument into a token with real economic utility.

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Tech

ZKsync’s Airbender zkVM Proves Ethereum Blocks in 35 Seconds

The new prover, which is based on RISC-V, a newer programming framework that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has suggested to replace the current EVM with.

Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)

Tech

AI-Powered Court System Is Coming to Crypto With GenLayer

GenLayer Labs is building a protocol that uses AI models as judges, with the goal of providing reliable, neutral, third-party arbitration in record time.

GenLayer is building an on-chain court system. (Credit: Unsplash, Wesley Tingey)

Web3

ZKSync Hacker Returns $5M in Stolen Tokens After Accepting 10% Bounty

The hacker cooperated with the ZKsync team and returned the funds within the “safe harbor” deadline while taking a 10% bounty..

Glasses in front of monitors with code (Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Finance

ZKSync Admin Wallet Compromised, $5M Stolen

The ZK token is down by 13.7% in the past 24 hours.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Tech

UBS Tests ZKSync's Layer-2 Tech, Showing Deeper TradFi Interest in Crypto

The Swiss banking giant, which has been experimenting with blockchain, tapped the layer-2 firm to test whether it could scale its current Key4 Gold program.

UBS Bank (Wikipedia)