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According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, zkSync (ZK) will unlock approximately 17.314 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on September 17, worth about 1.71 million USD.

Scroll Governance Forum posted that the team will recently apply AI extensively in operations and product development. Previously, core chain operations required over 20 engineers, but now it is completed by fewer dedicated engineers in conjunction with AI agents, while maintaining existing usability and security standards. The team believes that blockchain can provide a trusted coordination layer to define and execute rules, and ZK can help agents interact with credentials, private data, and computations without exposing underlying information.The team is building an interconnected product stack: Compass is an iOS application that can access the large models and functions provided by the Compass API, and includes VPN and eSIM; Compass API is the AI routing infrastructure, connecting over 30 large models; CENO provides a trust layer through ZK, protecting credentials, agent context, and privacy computations; USX is used for payments and settlements; SCR continues to coordinate governance; the Scroll network serves as a trust and coordination layer. CENO has reached out to over 30 potential clients, of which 12 are participating in proof of concept testing.The team plans to gradually transform Scroll from a general public chain into a dedicated network centered around Compass and the AI product stack, with an overall transition expected to take about nine months. According to the current plan, SCR will migrate to the Ethereum mainnet to maintain accessibility and liquidity, with supply and token economics remaining unchanged, and will continue to serve as a governance token. This post is only a progress update, not an official proposal or vote, and further proposals regarding the network transformation and matters requiring DAO approval will be made separately.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "US Open WTA: Iga Swiatek vs Marie Bouzkova," the sub-market "Total Games: Greater than 2.5" option "Over 2.5" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 77% (a fluctuation of 27%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the official X account of ZKsync (@zksync), ZKsync announced a security upgrade for its EraVM chain. The core measures include: introducing an instant upgrade framework, extending the execution delay from 3 hours to 24 hours, and developing a second prover, EraBender, to guard against AI-driven vulnerability attacks.In the next 6 months, all Boojum/EraVM chains will gradually phase out the old execution environment, and each chain will formulate and announce its own transition timetable. Users holding funds directly in EOA do not need to take any action; users holding funds through multi-signature, smart accounts, DEX, lending protocols, and other smart contracts need to take action as required after the transition plans of each chain are determined. The ZKsync Atlas chain is not affected by this upgrade.

The Arbitrum development team stated that they are introducing zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs into the Arbitrum platform to achieve a multi-proof settlement model. Through ZK proofs, the settlement time of Arbitrum blocks to Ethereum L1 is expected to be reduced from several days to several hours, while enhancing user, cross-chain bridge, and protocol capital efficiency, and maintaining security through the multi-proof mechanism. Related capabilities are aimed at Arbitrum One and dedicated chains based on the Arbitrum platform. Offchain will subsequently submit upgrade proposals to the DAO.Current progress includes: the ability to run the same state transition functions in SP1 zkVM as in optimistic execution, generating ZK proofs for real mainnet block production; Stylus's WASM contracts can be proven alongside Solidity contracts; the team has launched an independent Rust verifier, making ZK proofs a first-class mode alongside standard verification; the BoLD settlement protocol has supported the acceptance of ZK proofs and is endorsed by a fast confirmation committee, while the original dispute games still serve as a fallback path, forming a multi-proof architecture that coordinates ZK proofs, proof committees, and fraud proofs.The team claims to be continuously reducing proof costs and will gradually merge related code into the Nitro main production path. The next steps include further optimizing proofs and shifting to Reth-based execution, completing L1 message inbox proofs, and integrating ZK settlement capabilities into node configurations for on-demand activation across chains.

Kaito AI founder Yu Hu responded to the community's privacy concerns regarding the Pulse browser extension. Yu Hu stated that Pulse's verification feature is based on zkTLS technology and generates encrypted proofs only when users actively initiate verification. Kaito only receives the final proof and not the complete account data or browsing history. The interactive data collection of Pulse on the X platform (such as content exposure, duration of stay, interactions) has been clearly authorized at the time of user installation and will not send browsing activities from other web pages to Kaito.Regarding the Chrome prompt "can read and write all website data," Yu Hu acknowledged that its displayed scope is broader than actual use and will be corrected in the next version to "can read and write X website data," which critics like Ultra have recognized. Kaito Pulse will be open-sourced this week for community review. Yu Hu stated that Pulse's device fingerprinting feature is only used to prevent abuse behaviors such as click fraud and witch attacks, and is not used for analysis or other purposes. This statement serves as Kaito's official response to recent community concerns, with the specific features of Pulse to be confirmed by the open-source code.

The ZK verification layer project Aligned has announced the details of the Genesis Drop. This airdrop allocates 8.74% from a fixed total supply of 10 billion ALIGN to the community supporting cryptocurrency, Ethereum, and ZK. At TGE, 44.36% of the total airdrop amount will be unlocked, approximately 3.88% of the total supply.The airdrop is divided into three parts. Airdrop 1 is allocated to the community, accounting for approximately 6.54% of the supply: those receiving 10,000 ALIGN or less will have their allocation fully unlocked at TGE; those receiving more than 10,000 will have 10,000 unlocked at TGE, with the remainder released linearly over 12 months. Airdrop 2 is for outstanding contributors, accounting for 2.10%, covering Protocol Guild, L2BEAT, ZachXBT, and ZK Podcast, among others. At TGE, only 2.08% will be unlocked, with the remainder vesting linearly over 47 months. ZK Arcade accounts for 0.10%, fully unlocked at TGE.Regarding the claiming rules, those allocated 10,000 ALIGN or less will claim on the Base chain, while those with more than 10,000 will claim on Ethereum L1. Users can visit community.alignedlayer.com to check their eligibility and allocation.

According to CoinMarketCap, the Ethereum Foundation has allocated a total of $5.5 million in grants in the second quarter of 2026, covering areas such as ecosystem development, research related to zero-knowledge proofs, and security audits.The related grant arrangements aim to support the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, focusing on strengthening network infrastructure and technical security capabilities, and continuously promoting the development of the Ethereum ecosystem.

The Offchain Labs research team has released advancements in zero-knowledge proof technology, covering areas such as proof acceleration, verifiable AI, and recursive security. Among them, the vector commitment scheme has reduced the proof generation time for 64,000 data entries from about 2 minutes to 32 milliseconds, achieving a speedup of approximately 4000 times; the new proof system Zaratan has achieved native full succinct proofs for integers for the first time, which can reduce the computational overhead of operations like RSA by about 5000 times; in terms of verifiable AI, a lightweight verification protocol can shorten the inference verification time for large models from several minutes to milliseconds.Arbitrum is exploring a multi-prover architecture that combines ZK proofs with fraud proofs and TEE to eliminate single points of failure and shorten L1 settlement cycles.

According to the token unlock data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, zkSync (ZK) will unlock approximately 17.314 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on August 17, worth about 1.39 million USD.

According to The Block, the Tokenization platform Tradable, invested by ParaFi Capital, plans to migrate approximately $1 billion of private credit assets from the Ethereum Layer 2 ZKsync to the public blockchain Stellar. Tradable was established in 2024 and provides on-chain infrastructure for the full lifecycle management of private credit, compliance controls, and investor account opening. Last year, it tokenized approximately $1.7 billion and nearly 30 institutional-level private credit positions on ZKsync.This migration aims to leverage Stellar's user base and compliance and privacy features in the institutional tokenization field to provide high-quality on-chain private credit investment opportunities to traditional asset managers. Stellar has previously hosted RWA products and stablecoin pilots for Franklin Templeton, WisdomTree, Ondo Finance, Figure, and others.

According to the token unlock data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, zkSync (ZK) will unlock approximately 173.14 million tokens at 0:00 on July 17, Beijing time, worth about 1.85 million USD.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Wimbledon WTA: Marie Bouzkova vs. Elise Mertens," the sub-market "Wimbledon WTA: Marie Bouzkova vs. Elise Mertens" saw the winning probability of the option "Marie Bouzkova" experience drastic fluctuations, plummeting from 56.5% an hour ago to the current 12.5% (a fluctuation of 44%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the official Lido blog, Lido DAO has revoked the "official" bridge endpoints for wstETH on nine networks: zkSync Era, Mode, Scroll, Mantle, Swell, Zircuit, Soneium, Polygon PoS, and Lisk, through a Snapshot vote.This move is a resource adjustment at the governance level and does not affect the technical operation of the related bridges and contracts. Users can still hold, transfer, or bridge back wstETH on the aforementioned networks to Ethereum. Lido will stop security monitoring, ecosystem, and market support for these networks, but no migration deadline will be set.

The development company behind zkSync, Matter Labs, announced layoffs on Tuesday and is fully transitioning the entire organization to the institutional-grade on-chain privacy infrastructure platform Prividium. CEO Alex Gluchowski defined this move on X as a skills restructuring rather than a cost-cutting measure, stating that the products built for regulated financial institutions since 2024 have evolved into Prividium, aiming to provide on-chain infrastructure that combines transaction confidentiality with compliance auditing capabilities for regulated entities such as banks and asset management companies.Gluchowski mentioned that this transformation is based on specific product feedback from institutional clients, but did not disclose the number of layoffs. According to CoinGecko data, the market capitalization of the zkSync token is approximately $115 million, having risen 4.3% in the past 24 hours. This transformation reflects a broader trend in the Layer 2 market, as ZK and L2 projects like Hyli and Botanix have shut down, and general-purpose horizontal platforms are facing pressure to find defenses in vertical fields. As of the time of publication, Matter Labs has not made any statements regarding the future of the zkSync network and ZK tokens.

According to official news, Polygon Labs announced that the Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta sequencer will be taken offline on July 1, 2026, and the timeline was first announced in June 2025.The official reminder states that on-chain wallet assets must be bridged to the Ethereum mainnet via ui.agglayer.dev before this date. On-chain wallet balances that are not bridged in time will be automatically migrated to Ethereum L1 and can be claimed through a dedicated interface afterwards.Polygon emphasizes that it does not control any DeFi protocols on zkEVM, and assets locked in DeFi contracts cannot be automatically migrated. Protocol teams and users must actively withdraw and migrate liquidity before July 1, and any automatically migrated assets that remain unclaimed after the deadline will be considered forfeited after December 31, 2027.

According to analysis by BlockSec Phalcon (@Phalcon_xyz), the RollupProcessorV3 contract of Aztec Network was attacked, resulting in losses exceeding $2.15 million. The root cause was that numRealTxs was not effectively bound to the transaction set enforced by the ZK proof, leading to discrepancies in the proof verification path and the L1 settlement logic's interpretation of the transaction list.The attacker exploited this vulnerability to move real deposits to slots not processed by the settlement logic, bypassing the decreasePendingDepositBalance() function, creating unsecured private balances out of thin air, and then withdrawing through the normal settlement process, involving a total of seven assets.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, zkSync (ZK) will unlock approximately 173.14 million tokens at 00:00 Beijing time on June 17, worth about 1.89 million USD.

According to The Block, Aztec Labs has acquired Obsidion, the company behind the open-source privacy identity verification tool ZKPassport. Its co-founders Michael Elliot and Theo Madzou, along with their team, will join Aztec Labs to continue developing ZKPassport and related applications.Aztec Labs is building the Ethereum privacy layer two network Aztec Network, which raised approximately $60 million worth of ETH through the AZTEC token sale last year, and previously secured about $125 million in venture capital.ZKPassport allows users to read passports or government documents via mobile NFC, generating cryptographic signatures locally for verifying age, nationality, and "real identity" without exposing full privacy. It has been used for ticketing at the Devconnect conference and for compliance identity verification in the Aztec community token sale. Aztec stated that it will continue to keep the ZKPassport protocol and iOS application open source.

ZKsync's official announcement stated that following several ZK token governance proposals, the governance service provider ScopeLift has now launched the "ZK Fee Flow System" proposal on the forum. This system is a set of smart contract mechanisms that allow ZKsync Governance to route and allocate protocol revenue and fees through its controllable on-chain mechanisms. ZKsync indicated that the relevant forum post has detailed the contract architecture, operational mechanisms, security measures, and deployment addresses of the system.