Today we are launching the Prover API, a significant milestone in the prover decentralization initiative which began in June 2024. The API allows anyone to generate proofs and verify their correctness against proofs generated for Era. As such, you can download batch inputs from the API and provide a batch proof to be verified. The Prover API covers Phase 0 and Phase 1 of the initial proposal. Below is a summary of the current roadmap.

Chainlink CCIP, the industry-standard cross-chain protocol, is now live on Era Mainnet. This is the next phase between Chainlink and ZKsync, and is in line with the shared commitment to create a uniform and united Layer 2 ecosystem on Ethereum and increase access to zero-knowledge technology. The integration provides an additional on-ramp for people to join the Elastic Chain ecosystem and empowers Web3 developers with top-tier infrastructure for creating feature-rich dApps. ZKsync is a member of Chainlink Scale and this integration is the latest development in the ZKsync ecosystem designed to connect decentralized finance (DeFi) with traditional finance (TradFi).

Matter Labs is expanding into Latin America and establishing a local presence in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This intensified focus marks a significant milestone in its global growth, and the company has chosen Buenos Aires as its launchpad for the region, leveraging local talent and key partnerships to accelerate blockchain adoption across Latin America.

Today, Anchorage Digital, the leading crypto platform for institutions, and the ZKsync Foundation, announced the availability of digital assets from the ZKsync ecosystem on Anchorage Digital’s platform. With the only U.S. federally chartered crypto bank, Anchorage Digital is the first institutional custodian to support ZKsync, whose zero-knowledge technology helps blockchains provide fast, secure and scalable transactions.

TLDR: Today, ZKsync unveils the Elastic Chain — an ever-expanding network of ZK rollups, secured by math and natively interoperable under a uniform, intuitive UX. Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap successfully reduced transaction fees, but fragmented liquidity and user experience. The recent ZKsync 3.0 upgrade solves this by enabling native, trustless, low-cost interoperability between the chains powered by ZK Stack, Ethereum’s most performant ZK rollup framework.

In another step towards decentralizing the core technology behind zkSync Era, the system’s prover network is now open to participants across the ecosystem. Introducing new participants will make zkSync Era’s prover more scalable, robust, and remove the reliance on any entity to maintain the critical mechanism responsible for computing proofs to validate transactions.

Since the very beginning, the ultimate vision for Matter Labs has been to incubate and launch the zkSync protocol and ZK Stack. The next phase is to decentralize the open source protocol by enabling accomplished and talented core development teams to help build, maintain, and upgrade the network and ZK Stack.

Three leading Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) providers are leveraging ZK Stack to immediately allow projects, developers and enterprises to easily launch, deploy, and test layer 2 hyperchains powered by zkSync.

Crypto wallets and their challenging user experience have been a major stumbling block for mainstream adoption. For new users, navigating the labyrinth of seed phrases and the rigmarole of reproducing them is a major turnoff and a stark contrast to the streamlined efficiency of some mainstream apps that let you access funds by simply looking at a screen.