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🚨 Hot take: @ZKsync is the only privacy project that actually works for Banks. We’ve been reflecting on this after the very recent @Zcash news. A serious vulnerability in their shielded Orchard system went undetected for years. It potentially allowed someone to create unlimited ZEC out of thin air inside the private pool, completely hidden. Even now, with the fix deployed, there’s no way to know for sure if it was ever exploited because of the full shielded privacy. That uncertainty is harder to ignore when people’s money is on the line. It made us realize something important. Perfect anonymity sounds good on paper, but for institutions and banks handling regulated money, that opacity creates problems bigger than the privacy it provides. That’s one of the reasons @zksync Prividium stands out as a more mature and practical solution. • It gives banks privacy where they need it most: customer transactions, account balances, and counterparties remain confidential between the bank and its clients. The environment stays fully under the bank’s control. • At the same time, everything is anchored to Ethereum through zero-knowledge proofs, meaning the integrity of the system, settlement, and the overall money supply remain verifiable without exposing sensitive information. • Banks get the privacy they need. Regulators can still access information when required. The underlying system remains cryptographically verifiable the entire time. This is exactly why regional banks like Huntington, First Horizon, M&T, KeyBank, and Old National, managing hundreds of billions in deposits, are building tokenized deposit solutions on Cari Network using @zksync Prividium. Real FDIC-backed deposits becoming programmable and instant, without leaving the bank’s balance sheet or regulatory framework. Glad to have been here since the early days watching this vision take shape. This is the bank stack of Ethereum: privacy without the nightmare trade-offs.

The 10 $ZK Fee That Could Turn Every Bank-to-Bank Message Into $ZK Buybacks For over fifty years the world has run on infrastructure invented in 1973. Seven banks created SWIFT to fix chaotic cross-border messaging. Today it handles 53 million messages daily and routes roughly $150 trillion a year. Looks impressive from the outside. Well, here’s the thing. Underneath all that volume are the same old 1970s limitations, multi-day settlements, batch processing, layers of correspondent banks, and core systems still written in COBOL, a language older than the internet. Capital sits idle. Opportunity cost piles up, you know. Every coordination between institutions burns time and money that should be working harder. Not only that, but in March 2026 that era started to end. Not because the old system broke down, but because something far better finally arrived. With governance proposal v31 (ZKsync Connect native interop) now active, ZKsync has turned on something transformative. Atomic, programmable interoperability across any Prividium chain and the entire ZKsync network. Every time two banks need to settle, pledge collateral, move tokenized assets, or sync state, it can now happen in roughly one second. Privately. Compliantly. And with a small protocol fee attached. That fee is 10 $ZK per interop call. Sounds tiny on its own. 10 ZK Token doesn’t feel like much. But scale changes everything. Because it’s not one call, it’s thousands. Not one bank, it’s hundreds. Not once a day, but constantly. And when all of that starts stacking, that “small fee” turns into a continuous stream of value flowing back into the system. And this is where it starts getting really interesting… Under ZKsync’s evolved tokenomics direction, 100% of protocol revenue, including every single interop fee, flows back into value accrual for ZK Token: open-market buybacks, programmatic burns, staking rewards, and ecosystem growth. The fee is simple (as described above): 10 ZK Token per call. But zoom out for a second, picture this. A single large bank or consortium can easily generate thousands of these coordination events every day, treasury movements, collateral adjustments, settlements, compliance syncs… it adds up fast. Now scale that. With ~100 major banks and consortia running Prividium chains (a pretty conservative near-term number), the volume becomes structural. Even capturing a small slice of SWIFT’s ~53 million daily messages pushes this into hundreds of thousands… even millions of interop calls per day. A rough, conservative view: 500,000 calls/day × 10 ZK = 5 million ZK Token per day flowing into the protocol. And that’s just the starting point. At higher adoption, this easily moves into tens of millions of ZK Token daily, from actual usage, really. Sustained buy pressure, permanent supply reduction through burns, and real staking yield tied straight to institutional activity. This is the first token that’s positioned to earn from the high frequency, high margin coordination that has always powered traditional finance.

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Why 2026 Is the Year Banks Finally Choose @ZKsync Over Legacy Rails It’s early 2026, and across the global banking system a familiar pattern still plays out every day. Treasury desks reconcile positions across fragmented systems. SWIFT wires move slowly through correspondent networks. Internal ledgers lag behind markets by hours. Compliance teams spend enormous time stitching together reports from multiple databases. Every intraday repo, every cross-border payment, every settlement window carries opportunity cost. Capital that could be deployed productively instead sits idle while legacy rails catch up. And for institutions managing billions or trillions, that inefficiency compounds quickly. What banks have always needed, but rarely had, is infrastructure that delivers always-on settlement, strong privacy, and global liquidity access without exposing sensitive financial flows. Now look at where things are moving in 2026. The same bank can run tokenized deposits, real-time collateral pledges, and private real-world-asset settlements on a permissioned chain that still feels like their existing core banking environment, but settles cryptographically on Ethereum within seconds. No more overnight batch cycles (these are a thing of the past). No more reconciliation delays (eliminated). No more choosing between confidentiality and liquidity. This shift reflects the infrastructure transition ZKsync has been building toward for years. And 2026 is where that architecture finally begins appearing at real institutional scale. As Alex Gluchowski (@gluk64) noted earlier this year, the focus across the ecosystem is moving from experimentation toward a.c.t.u.a.l d.e.p.l.o.y.m.e.n.t. Multiple regulated institutions, financial infrastructure providers, and large enterprises are now launching production systems on ZKsync designed to eventually reach tens of millions of users. And when you step back, the reason banks are increasingly looking at ZKsync instead of legacy rails comes down to a fairly simple reality. Traditional financial systems just can’t compete anymore on cost, speed, privacy, and programmability. ZKsync offers a path forward that removes many of the trade-offs institutions have had to accept for decades.

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TL;DR: Why @ZKsync Calls Itself the Bank Stack of @Ethereum The institutional blockchain dilemma: • Public chains (ex: Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana) → global liquidity but no privacy • Private chains (ex: Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, traditional permissioned setups like Quorum variants) → privacy but cut off from global liquidity • Alternative L1s (ex: Solana, Avalanche, Sui) → lose Ethereum’s security and credibility ZKsync removes this trade-off. It allows institutions to run transactions privately, while still accessing shared liquidity across the network and settling securely on Ethereum. - Core Architecture ↓ • Prividium → Permissioned Validium chains designed for institutional environments. • Elastic Network → Native interoperability across ZK chains (currently 19+) with ~1s confirmations. • Ethereum L1 → Final settlement secured by zero-knowledge validity proofs. - How it works ↓ • Private execution: sensitive transaction data stays inside institutional infrastructure. • Proof-based settlement: only cryptographic validity proofs are posted to Ethereum. • Shared liquidity: private ZK chains can access public liquidity across the Elastic Network. • No bridge risk: interoperability happens without asset-locking bridges. - Enterprise-grade infrastructure ↓ • Selective disclosure for auditors & regulators • SSO integrations (Okta / Azure AD) • Approval workflows & role-based governance • Programmable compliance logic • ERP and treasury system integrations - Institutional adoption is already happening ↓ • Deutsche Bank collaboration through Memento • ADI Chain supporting UAE-licensed stablecoin infrastructure • EDENA Capital onboarding $20B+ sovereign-grade assets • Integrations with Fireblocks, pilots with UBS • $2B+ tokenized RWAs already live on ZKsync - Bottom line ↓ ZKsync is not trying to replace Ethereum. It’s extending Ethereum into the world of institutional finance, turning it into infrastructure banks can actually run on. That’s the reason why we always say ZK is the endgame.

- @ZKsync Reinforces Cryptographic Security at Institutional Scale • During a panel hosted by @TheTieIO, @Ozhar summed it up simply: banks don’t rely on promises, they ask hard security questions. For institutions, privacy isn’t enough on its own, execution has to be provably correct. That’s where zero-knowledge comes in, validating transactions mathematically instead of relying on intermediaries. • Airbender sits at the center of that push. The open-source RISC-V prover can generate Ethereum block proofs in seconds at very low cost, running on standard hardware. In practical terms, it’s the kind of infrastructure institutions need for tokenized assets and compliant settlement without compromising security. - @Sophon Tracks Stablecoin Growth & The Attention Shift • Stablecoins keep growing. Supply has moved from under $150B in late 2023 to over $300B, with 46M+ addresses active on-chain, most of them interacting with USDT. The bigger picture: stablecoins are settling into everyday use, especially for payments and remittances, not just trading. • On the media side, Sophon is looking at attention itself. In Aura Streams Episode 11, @pukerrainbrow joins a live 𝕏 discussion on how creators and brands are taking control of distribution. The “Media is Dead” theme points toward a shift, owning your audience, monetizing directly, and building onchain-native ecosystems instead of relying on legacy platforms.

• @CronosApp Signals a Reset Before the Next Push • After shifting from Cronos Chain to @CronosApp, the team stepped into interviews to explain where things stand. Ryan Wyatt and Smit were clear, fix the core first. More builders, better infra, real usage. Not just numbers that look good on dashboards. • In both conversations, the message was pretty straightforward: strengthen what’s already there before trying to scale it bigger. • April is the next checkpoint, with a “Friends & Family” rollout of the app, plus a brand refresh and redesigned website to mark the transition. - @LensProtocol Leans Into Direct Community Conversations • Lens started the Lunar New Year by announcing a community AMA focused on where the protocol is heading, roadmap, growth plans, and the bigger picture for decentralized social. After hosting a Mandarin AMA with Vitalik, they confirmed an English transcript is on the way. • Stewards like @suji_yan and @KimmoOrb will join the session, and they’re opening the floor to all questions, a clear move toward more open, back-and-forth dialogue. • The first official community call is set for 12 PM PST on the 21st via Twitter Spaces, with plans to make these conversations more regular going forward.