zkSync 3.0 Explained by Vassilis Tziokas | Elastic Chain, ZK Stack, and zkSync Era 🔵
📺 Watch now to dive deep into the future of modular ZK infrastructure.
In this insightful talk, Vassilis Tziokas, Head of Ecosystem Success at Matter Labs (the team behind zkSync), breaks down the three foundational pillars of zkSync 3.0:
✅ zkSync Era – The original ZK Rollup, also known as the mother chain.
✅ ZK Stack – A powerful open-source modular framework for building Rollups & Validiums.
✅ Elastic Chain – A next-gen cluster of interoperable chains, unified under a single proving system for seamless scalability.
🎯 Vassilis also gives a special shout-out to Zeeve, a leading RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) provider that’s helping enterprises and Web3-native teams build powerful ZK chains using the ZK Stack — accelerating the adoption of zkSync’s vision for the modular future.
💡 Why You Should Watch This:
• Understand what makes zkSync’s Elastic Chain unique.
• Learn how interoperability and shared proofs are changing the L2 landscape.
• Discover how teams are launching scalable ZK chains with ZK Stack + Zeeve.
• Get a sneak peek into the next evolution of ZK Rollups & modular blockchain infra.
#zkSync #ElasticChain #ZKStack #ZKRollups #ModularBlockchain #Zeeve #MatterLabs #Layer2 #ZKInfrastructure #Validium #RollupAsAService #EthereumScalability #Web3Infra
📺 Watch now to dive deep into the future of modular ZK infrastructure.
In this insightful talk, Vassilis Tziokas, Head of Ecosystem Success at Matter Labs (the team behind zkSync), breaks down the three foundational pillars of zkSync 3.0:
✅ zkSync Era – The original ZK Rollup, also known as the mother chain.
✅ ZK Stack – A powerful open-source modular framework for building Rollups & Validiums.
✅ Elastic Chain – A next-gen cluster of interoperable chains, unified under a single proving system for seamless scalability.
🎯 Vassilis also gives a special shout-out to Zeeve, a leading RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) provider that’s helping enterprises and Web3-native teams build powerful ZK chains using the ZK Stack — accelerating the adoption of zkSync’s vision for the modular future.
💡 Why You Should Watch This:
• Understand what makes zkSync’s Elastic Chain unique.
• Learn how interoperability and shared proofs are changing the L2 landscape.
• Discover how teams are launching scalable ZK chains with ZK Stack + Zeeve.
• Get a sneak peek into the next evolution of ZK Rollups & modular blockchain infra.
#zkSync #ElasticChain #ZKStack #ZKRollups #ModularBlockchain #Zeeve #MatterLabs #Layer2 #ZKInfrastructure #Validium #RollupAsAService #EthereumScalability #Web3Infra
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00:00so well in 2024 we really seen the evolution of the entire zk roll-up stack you know we've
00:13seen a lot of maturity there and we believe that in 2025 it is really going to take off and and
00:20one of the stacks which is really leading the charge is zk sync matter labs so i'd like to
00:24invite vassilis who's the head of ecosystem success at zk sync to really decode the elastic chain for us
00:33yeah thank you vassilis hello hello thank you for for joining this great event by ziv i mean ziv is
00:40one of our top partners so it's always a pleasure and an honor to be invited here so i know it's a
00:45long day i know you're probably hungry so it's gonna be short like 10 15 minutes and of course
00:50happy to get any questions either on stage or later one-to-one my name is vassilis i am leading
00:57ecosystem success for motherlabs motherlabs is a company behind gk sync the ethereum l2 i've been
01:03with him almost a year and a half and i'm coming from the web to let's say universe working for
01:07many years at microsoft so what i want to do in the next 10 minutes is to talk to you about gk sync
01:14i'm sure you probably know the name if you're part of the ethereum gang i'm pretty sure that you're very
01:19familiar with gko labs but i always want to start with a mission and the reason for that is because
01:26you know in this industry or at least i'll talk about myself in this industry sometimes we you know
01:33we lose the forest we focus on the tree we don't remember why we joined so for me personally but also
01:40collectively at model labs our mission plays an important role and whenever we have doubts or you
01:46know questions about the future we'll always come back to this statement about advancing personal
01:51freedom for all our ceo alex kukowski is the one who wrote this manifesto and the mission and we
01:57believe that freedom is the most important human value and it's only who can drive progress and
02:02prosperity i believe we live in a very strange times globally so it's always a good reminder of why
02:08we're doing blockchains and why we're doing zk blockchains more specifically because we think of
02:13them as the most important tools for advanced freedom so what is zk sync right what is this
02:20as we call the elastic network in a way it's three things right it's zk sync era the casing era is the
02:26i will call it the mother chain it's the first roll up for zk all of launched as part of the elastic
02:32chain almost two years ago we have been very proud to you know be hitting some amazing milestones
02:37who have more than nine million addresses more than almost half a billion transactions and growing
02:43stronger we recently released our vision about era becoming a liquidity hub for all the elastic network
02:52to which i explain in a second so that's the casing era most people when they talk about zk sync they
02:56think era automatically but era is just one part of it second part is zk stack zk stack is an open source
03:04framework upon which you can go and build your own roll up or value each one of the most performant but
03:09also successful stacks in ethereum we are very happy to work with partners like ziv who actually take the
03:15zk stack to the next level and then offer it for enterprises or crypto native projects who want to
03:21build their own startup their own blockchain so that's the second part of our let's say pillars and
03:27the third pillar is the elastic chain or the elastic network this is a fairly new term that we introduced a
03:33few months ago which is pretty much the cluster right it's an ecosystem and a cluster of chains
03:39that will be unified with native interoperability but also the same culture culture is something
03:44intangible but it's also very important combining all the innovation into one search story so rather
03:51than having siloed ck chains you connect them both technologically but also culturally in this thing called the
03:58elastic network and it's our latest addition and we're super proud about it this is be honest every
04:03every month those logos get you know the number of logos gets bigger but that's exactly what it is
04:08right it's an elastic chain it's it's a powerful combination of projects enterprises crypto natives web2
04:15who build their own ck chain and they are all interconnected as i said before they're interconnected
04:21technologically through native class in a second they are connected culturally and last but not
04:27least they are connected on a business level we already see some cross-innovation of one chain
04:33using another chain as an infra provider or one chain building on top of another chain so forth and so
04:37on we have more than 15 almost 20 chains right now some of them are on mainnet some of them are on
04:43testnet we're very excited about some of them who have some very strong crypto native projects in the game
04:50in the entertainment space projects like lens so phone abstract treasure amazing kings e.k candy
04:57xola but we also have some amazing i would call it web2 enterprises we recently announced wonderfully
05:04which is the largest canadian crypto exchange union chain deutsche bank so forth and so on but so
05:11this is what's happening so far and how we're trying to package all the information in a few pillars
05:17but i think it's also important to talk a little bit about what will be happening at the elastic network
05:21the next nine months what is the roadmap this is a roadmap that we published i would say a few weeks
05:26ago and i just want to highlight highlight some of the key terms so what will be coming from our
05:32engineering and product in the next weeks is those is those three things which of course capture the
05:39main manager so number one is developer experience if we want to be honest right now we are not you know
05:46event we know that we know that this creates problems for many developers and this is soon
05:51coming this is probably the most requested feature from developers building on juicing
05:58we're currently evm compatible but we are not evm equivalent so this will be coming in a series of
06:04steps and i believe both of us but both both us at madalas but also the developers and the chains
06:09building on us will be extremely excited about it so that's number one number two is something which is
06:15very close to our heart which is a web to a user experience um we always hold the philosophy and
06:21the value and the thing and the thinking that users should not know if they interact with the blockchain
06:26it should be as simple and as seamless as interacting with as you do right now on google or microsoft
06:33or shopify or spotify or apple as simple as that so there are many ways we can achieve this of course
06:41we have our native account abstraction but we will be doing more more innovation on the ui as i don't
06:46think so there's so privacy and we will also have a new prover it's going to be called pujom 2 or
06:52virtual pujom so this is the next version of pujom which actually we will be announcing the benchmarks
06:59the next days we're very excited about it and we have already seen internally that we can hit
07:04you know 10 000 dps on the zk all up so we're super excited about this because we believe that it
07:10will unlock use cases that we cannot do right now and last but not least is this idea of an
07:15aid in interoperability i know that interoperability is probably the most important thing right now on
07:21ethereum other ecosystems the current room optimism are taking their shot as they should
07:28it's fragmentation is a very important problem and we try to address it in a native level on the
07:33elastic network so by end of the year all the zk chains regardless of whether they are private
07:39open permission validium draw labs they will be natively interoperating with one with another
07:45if you ask me personally i think this is super exciting for the following reason technology is only a
07:50tool the way i see it technology is a tool to unlock business innovation so when you will be able to
07:55natively interoperate between i don't know lens and abstract or deutsche bank and a d5 protocol
08:00all kinds of use cases will be used you know on the fringe of those things so we are very confident
08:06that you know our date with the operability will be a killer use case we cannot wait to you know launch
08:11it for the world to see it experience it and for developers to build on top of it so that's the three
08:18things so when somebody asks you what is happening these are the three main things that our engineering and
08:24product teams are focusing again if you have a web to user experience through validiums and a new
08:30prover and native interoperability based on zk technology so i will close with this i know that
08:36the word elastic we call ourselves elastic network elastic means many things elastic means something you can
08:42take like a like a ribbon and you can now make in your fingers economic term it's also a technological term
08:49that you can address all the volume without having to worry about how you will scale that's exactly how
08:56we see ourselves we see ourselves as the network that we can scale elastically regardless of how much
09:01stigma it has regardless of whether you are a huge bank or a small lab we can cater to your demand
09:07without any problem or issue on scalability front so we believe that the future is elastic
09:13and 2025 will be the year that we will actually improve it with our innovation that's pretty much
09:18it for me i know we'll have five minutes so i can either take questions or i can give some time back
09:23for for you to enjoy your lunch or like any any anything you want yeah yeah so vasilis you spoke about
09:2910 000 dps right that's correct that's the approval excuse me the approval right that is amazing
09:36it is amazing it is amazing mind-blowing absolutely to be honest i'm always very careful when i include
09:41numbers but these numbers were approved by my cto so of course i included them and of course these
09:47are gps and not specific transactions but to be honest i want to open a little bit the floor it's not
09:53only easy casing there are other amazing provers out there there is this theory that gk proving will
09:59become something like a intelligence in ai lln it will be commoditized you have things like zeros
10:05saying they're doing great stuff so you know it will be a range to the bottom and you know we don't
10:11want to prove it to be the only thing that will be differentiated for zk saying we want to build a
10:15community and network and elastic family on top of the prover but yes the internal benchmark we have
10:21seen are extremely exciting as i said i think our cto or our developer team will serve the
10:27benchmark publicly sometime in march so it's coming up so the elastic chain basically connects the chains
10:33in the zk stack right that's correct this is is there something happening which will connect
10:38chains to other stacks as well it's a good question so the way that we approach it right now
10:43it's twofold right now we want to solve this for our own stack that's why the elastic network and
10:49interoperability applies only to roll-ups and validiums built on the elastic network when those networks
10:55want to connect with outside world with optimism with arbitrary room with other chains we are working very
11:00closely with selective partners people like cross hyperline the bridge but also cross chain protocols
11:07like ccp layer zero so we'll work with all of them they have different frameworks one of them is
11:12intent-based the other one is free messaging but yes our native interloop will apply only to the
11:18chains built on the elastic network thank you so much great thank you other questions do you think zk
11:23technology will replace optimistic grow up entirely as zk becomes so much more efficient because
11:29obviously original zk takes too long but now you guys are making so much efficient where do you see
11:34that going yeah i hear the question thank you and i think it's a good question and to be honest about
11:38my opinion i think it's happening already optimistic roll-ups or or teams like optimism have openly
11:46sell on their tweaker and on their press release that they're working to make op change optimistic
11:51change zk change i think we can all agree that zk is the end game not gk sync zk as a technology
11:58it's much more performant it's definitely much more resistant and trustless so yes to your question i
12:05believe that optimistic roll-ups who started adopting zk technology our thesis is that it's not that easy
12:11welcome the innovation from them but as i have been saying in some private conversations
12:16uh it's one thing to build your chain zk first as we did it's a different thing to add zk later it's
12:23like i think our ceo is using the analogy of he's trying to put a jet engine in a car
12:29doesn't necessarily mean the car will go faster you'll have to re-engineer the engine in a way that
12:35fits but yes i believe that optimistic roll-ups will start adopting more and more so just one other
12:41question so around you know polygon and kind of their whole zk evm they always had a little bit
12:46confusion because they call themselves zk evm right and so how do you guys compare because they're
12:52already evm compatible and they also have this link going out we how do you explain to someone new to
12:58say the differentiator between this whole stack of innovation versus something like polygon what you
13:05know what is the pros and cons and i think we need to be a little bit clear of the terms and maybe
13:10do not know i don't want to misrepresent what polygon is doing by the way they're doing amazing
13:15innovation as well they're creating they have the polygon ag layer which is if i'm not mistaken
13:22their attempt to connect all the chains regardless of which stack you're building and then they have
13:28the thing called polygon cdk which is their version of the zk stack so now how do we compare them and i
13:34think it's a you can compare two stacks in many different ways you can compare them in pure
13:38technological benchmarks i haven't read the latest benchmarks so i'm not in a position to tell you
13:43if we're better or not but i think to be honest most chains sorry most projects or most applications or
13:51most enterprises who decide which stack to build technology benchmarks is just one criteria there
13:58are many other things like business support engineering support go-to-market funding so don't have
14:04their own strategy i think they have they have had amazing success in the past they have literally
14:08taken the industry to the next level back in 2020 and hopefully we will be doing we'll be building
14:16on top of their success as an industry and we'll be growing the pie together thank you thank you for
14:19the question thank you guys thank you
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