Memento Blockchain ZK Chain demonstrates how tailored blockchain technology can empower institutions to navigate the changing landscape of digital finance securely, compliantly, and at scale. The Memento testnet is built with ZKsync’s technology and aims to create a permissioned blockchain designed to facilitate the management and distribution of: 1. Digital native funds 2. Hybrid funds that integrate both traditional and digital assets, and 3. Tokenized traditional investment funds. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ebtaVeD8
About us
ZKsync is cutting-edge zero-knowledge (ZK) technology to scale Ethereum and bring crypto to the mainstream — reaching millions of developers and billions of people in need of a technological solution for achieving progress and prosperity. Deeply rooted in its mission to advance personal freedom for all, the ZKsync blockchain network makes digital self-ownership universally available. It is trustless, secure, reliable, censorship-resistant, privacy-preserving, hyperscalable, accessible, and sovereign. To learn more about ZKsync, visit www.zksync.io.
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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- 51-200 employees
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- Privately Held
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Unlock the potential of #tokenization. This new research report from The Block covers how ZKsync addresses many of the challenges associated with asset tokenization, enabling enterprises to capitalize on this technology and confidently transition to an entirely on-chain issuance and value transfer model. Read the full report to learn why Tradable Financial, Buenos Aires City Government, Sygnum Bank, and others are using ZKsync for asset tokenization: https://lnkd.in/dRGyB58V #Blockchain #DigitalAssets #FutureofFinance
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Buenos Aires City Government is the first city to issue decentralized IDs to its citizens. By integrating QuarkID into the miBA platform, over 3.6M Buenos Aires citizens now have control over their documents via blockchain and ZK proofs, with ZKsync Era serving as the settlement layer. Read more here → https://lnkd.in/dWT-gz7r -- -- -- Over the past year, Buenos Aires City Government, Matter Labs, Extrimian and many other parties have been co-developing QuarkID, an open source protocol to issue decentralized identifiers (#DIDs) for Argentina's capital city. Using ZK proofs, data stored in QuarkID wallets is self-sovereign. Citizens have full control over their personal data when interacting with government and administrative services. Rather than relying on physical documents that expose unnecessary information, residents can now verify their credentials peer-to-peer. No third party, including the government, can track when, how, or why a credential is being used. Functionally, over 3.6M miBA users will be able to access birth/marriage/death certificates, vaccinations, tax records, credentials, and more documents in the coming months. These credentials are owned by the citizens and secured by ZKsync Era. The government of Buenos Aires no longer has any visibility into how, where, or when these identity documents are used. QuarkID’s integration with miBA is the first step. As a protocol, QuarkID will power new #DID use cases beyond government certification, such as financial services, healthcare, sports/loyalty, enterprise, and more. And Buenos Aires is the first government to adopt and deploy this technology, with many others across LATAM to follow-suit. The blockchain revolution will come through real-world use cases as governments, enterprises, and consumers start to see the benefits of privacy, self-sovereignty, and security. Buenos Aires and Quark_ID are leading that charge, powered by ZKsync.
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ZKsync continues to be the go-to chain for financial institutions after participating in an industry-wide initiative, led by Chainlink Labs. An initiative, led by Chainlink Labs, Euroclear, Swift, and 6 financial institutions showcases how AI, decentralized oracles, and blockchain can address inefficiencies in executing corporate actions like dividends, stock splits, and M&A’s. By creating a unified, tamper-proof golden record of corporate action data, accessible across multiple blockchains, including ZKsync Era, the initiative aims to streamline processes that have historically been slow and costly. Read the full report to learn how this initiative aims to reshape corporate actions: https://lnkd.in/gGtpyjEQ
We're excited to announce the results of an industry-wide corporate actions initiative between Chainlink, Euroclear, Swift, and 6 major financial institutions. We successfully demonstrated how AI, oracles, and blockchains can solve a decades-long unstructured data challenge in finance. Read the full report, which covers the solution design, key outcomes, participant insights, and the next phase of the initiative: https://lnkd.in/gGtpyjEQ The Challenges With Corporate Actions Today Today’s inefficient corporate action processes cost regional investor, broker, and custodian businesses approximately $3-5 million each annually, with 75% of firms re-validating custodian and exchange data manually. Key challenges include: • No standard method for announcing events • Extensive manual data cleaning efforts • Lack of standardized data • Fragmented ecosystem • No single source of truth The Unified Golden Record: A Novel Architecture Combining AI, Oracles, and Blockchains To address this challenge, we convened a consortium of major participants from across the industry, including financial and market infrastructures Euroclear and Swift, as well as major financial institutions UBS, Franklin Templeton, Wellington Management, CACEIS, Vontobel, and Sygnum Bank. This initiative leverages AI models, oracles, and blockchains to create unified golden records of corporate action data that are synchronized across multiple blockchains. The LLM models used by the Chainlink oracle network in this approach included LLMs by OpenAI (ChatGPT 4o), Google (Gemini 1.5), and Anthropic (Claude 3.5), but the design is agnostic to any LLM model. Three blockchain ecosystems were involved: Hyperledger Besu, Avalanche, and ZKsync. This approach not only reduces uncertainty around using novel LLM models but also distributes data nearly instantaneously on shared infrastructure to provide an onchain unified golden record for asset managers, CSDs, and custodian service providers. Results: A Significant Architecture Milestone The initiative achieved a significant architecture milestone in the journey to improve the management and dissemination of corporate actions data. Key outcomes include: • Established a novel data extraction and structuring process • Success in LLM consensus framework for financial data • Near real-time data distribution The Path Forward With the next upcoming phase of the initiative, we aim to integrate established ISO standards, along with Swift messaging and connectivity, unified golden records interoperable with and consumable by existing mission-critical portfolio processing and management systems utilized by financial institutions. Our vision is to expand the scope of the unified golden record model by converting additional sources of unstructured data into structured data for financial assets, expanding the benefits of AI and Chainlink oracles to the wider financial industry.
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Nana Murugesan sits down with Circle's Jeremy Allaire on #TheMoneyMovement podcast for all things ZK. Listen to these two industry titans discuss: ‣ Why we need ZK-proofs to scale Ethereum ‣ ZK-powered use cases like privacy and identity ‣ How ZK is bringing institutions onchain View the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/g8EmWW8M
Episode 101 of #TheMoneyMovement is now live! Hear Jeremy Allaire and Matter Labs' Nana Murugesan dive into the importance of technology, the future of programmable money, and the emergence of zero-knowledge proofs. 🎥 https://lnkd.in/g8EmWW8M
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This short interview with Nate Holiday from Space and Time on Nasdaq's #TradeTalks (hosted by Jill Malandrino) highlights why we need verifiable computation to increase transparency around AI agents using blockchain data.
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We'll be at #Permissionless. Connect with us at these talks: → Fireside: Elastic Chain with David Hoffman and Alex Gluchowski → Fireside: Consumer Chain with Jason Yanowitz, Nana Murugesan, and Stani Kulechov → Pushing the Frontier of L2s with Ryan Sean Adams, Alex Gluchowski, Harry Kalodner, and rushi manche Find the timing and locations here: https://lnkd.in/d4Y79nsN
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Messari compiled a comprehensive report covering ZKsync’s groundbreaking rollup technology with a lengthy focus on institutional adoption. Read the full report here along with this breakdown from Xochitl De Groot Ivory https://lnkd.in/eG5WdnQB
Messari's Q3 report highlights ZKsync rapidly emerging as the go-to solution for enterprises seeking secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure to drive the next wave of financial innovation. Key milestones include: 🏦 ZKsync’s unique role in Deutsche Bank's asset tokenization platform, showcasing the versatility of ZK Chains for TradFi 💼 Tradable Financial to bring institutional finance onchain and tokenize over $500M in private credit, backed by Victory Park Capital, using ZK Stack’s customizability 🔹 Institutional success with Fidelity International, tokenizing $50M of MMFs on ZKsync, opening up a massive TAM across $6.9B in assets, in collaboration with Chainlink. 🦄 The Elastic Chain, which enables seamless scalability across ZKsync's interconnected ecosystem, has more than 10 ZK Chains in development, including Lens Protocol, built using ZK Stack. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/ey9JcZut
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Coinbase has added institutional custodian support for ZKsync! Through Coinbase Institutional, institutions can safely manage ZKsync ecosystem assets and take part in governance, signaling an important step toward broadening the ZKsync ecosystem's appeal to a wider audience.
zkSync (ZK) is now available for custody on Coinbase Prime! https://lnkd.in/gV2QuMkR. Availability of this asset may be restricted based on custodian entity and customer jurisdiction.
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CREATOR and ZTX are partnering to integrate with ZKsync to bring Zepeto’s 500+ million users and 20 million monthly active users to the Elastic Chain. Zepeto is a popular avatar-based social platform that has been leveraging ZTX to bring its vibrant Web2 community into the Web3 space. Leveraging relationships with successful web2 platforms for new user onboarding, CREATOR is building with ZKsync’s leading zero-knowledge (ZK) technology that solves Ethereum’s security, scalability, and cost issues. Ian Maverick, Special Strategy Director at CREATOR commented: “The ZTX and CREATOR teams are fully aligned on ensuring the seamless onboarding of ZTX users and its legacy web2 platform users to the CREATOR blockchain… We are delighted to leverage the ZK Stack to help us expedite our building.” Read the full details here: https://lnkd.in/dsZwJ9ZR
CREATOR Chain Partners with ZTX, Brings ZEPETO to ZKsync
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