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Tradable, a pioneering technology company focused on making institutional-quality investments accessible to a broader range of participants, has achieved a significant milestone by tokenizing $1.7 billion of assets across nearly 30 institutional-grade private credit positions. Tradable is now the third-largest real-world asset platform globally and brings unique scale, quality, and diversity to the tokenized asset space. Tradable’s mission is to bring web3 technology to traditional asset mana...
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Today, the ZKsync team is excited to share details of the Atlas upgrade for the ZK Stack, which provides a major step forward towards the vision of a network of sovereign chains, secured by cryptography and powering the global economy. This release delivers a high-performance, low-latency sequencer, support for multiple VM configurations (including full EVM equivalence), and integration with Airbender, the world’s most performant open source RISC-V proof system, for one-second finality with Z...
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TL;DR: ZKsync is building Web3 that feels like the best of Web2. The elastic network of ZK chains delivers convenience, performance, security, verifiability, and connectivity all at once.Why We Are Here: Advancing Freedom for AllAt the heart of ZKsync is the mission to advance personal freedom for all by accelerating mass adoption of crypto. Our philosophy is rooted in three core insights:Freedom → Progress → Prosperity: Personal freedom fosters creativity, innovation, and progress, leading t...
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ZKsyncTradable Brings $1.7 Billion in Tokenized Alternative Assets to ZKsync
Tradable, a pioneering technology company focused on making institutional-quality investments accessible to a broader range of participants, has achieved a significant milestone by tokenizing $1.7 billion of assets across nearly 30 institutional-grade private credit positions. Tradable is now the third-largest real-world asset platform globally and brings unique scale, quality, and diversity to the tokenized asset space. Tradable’s mission is to bring web3 technology to traditional asset mana...
ZKsyncIntroducing the ZK Stack's Atlas upgrade: beyond 15K TPS with one-second ZK finality.
Today, the ZKsync team is excited to share details of the Atlas upgrade for the ZK Stack, which provides a major step forward towards the vision of a network of sovereign chains, secured by cryptography and powering the global economy. This release delivers a high-performance, low-latency sequencer, support for multiple VM configurations (including full EVM equivalence), and integration with Airbender, the world’s most performant open source RISC-V proof system, for one-second finality with Z...
ZKsyncZKsync Roadmap 2025: Web3 Without Compromise
TL;DR: ZKsync is building Web3 that feels like the best of Web2. The elastic network of ZK chains delivers convenience, performance, security, verifiability, and connectivity all at once.Why We Are Here: Advancing Freedom for AllAt the heart of ZKsync is the mission to advance personal freedom for all by accelerating mass adoption of crypto. Our philosophy is rooted in three core insights:Freedom → Progress → Prosperity: Personal freedom fosters creativity, innovation, and progress, leading t...
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A strategic step toward modernizing digital gold investments with blockchain technology
UBS recently conducted a technical proof-of-concept (PoC) for tokenized gold, testing ZKsync Validium, a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain solution designed to scale Ethereum while maintaining privacy. Financial service providers leveraging Ethereum must adopt strategies to maximize the network’s utility.
The goal of the technical PoC was to address challenges in scalability, privacy, and interoperability as UBS experimented to expand UBS Gold into global markets, in a test environment. Following a thorough evaluation of blockchain options, ZKsync Validium was selected for its ability to meet the specific requirements of a hypothetical tokenized gold network. This PoC reflects UBS’s continued efforts to explore how blockchain can enhance its financial offerings.
To address these challenges, UBS evaluated multiple blockchain technologies and identified ZKsync Validium as a promising choice. ZKsync Validium addresses three critical needs:
Enhanced scalability: High transaction throughput at lower costs by storing data off-chain
Privacy: Transaction data is stored off-chain, ensuring confidentiality for users
Interoperability: Seamlessly connects to Ethereum, ‘’the foundational layer for Decentralized Finance (DeFi)’’ (-UBS) enabling cross-network asset transfers
The PoC simulated a tokenized gold Network on ZKsync Validium, testing the feasibility of meeting all above mentioned requirements, while assessing cost implications. To achieve this, smart contracts were deployed on a testnet to simulate a gold network. These contracts carried out key functionalities, including: gold token issuance, transaction processing and reconciliation.
Key Objectives:
Technical feasibility: evaluate operational requirements and implementation options for scalability and privacy
Business viability: Analyze cost implications under various transaction volume scenarios
The PoC successfully demonstrated UBS’s ability to meet its privacy and interoperability objectives while addressing scalability requirements to a significant extent. By leveraging Validium mode, UBS ensured user privacy, allowing participants to view only their activity while enabling verifiability through Ethereum’s L1 bridge smart contract. Interoperability was also validated in the test as stablecoins bridged from Ethereum were successfully utilized to purchase gold tokens, and dummy tokens were employed to simplify reconciliation processes for back-office operations. While ZKsync’s Validium supported high throughput, achieving optimal cost efficiency would require thousands of transactions per hour, highlighting opportunities for further scalability optimization.
Building on the success of the PoC, the results underscored the broader potential for integrating L2 solutions into UBS’s operations. Key opportunities include:
Future proofing: Preparing for increased transaction volumes without bottlenecks
Customization: Creating tailored solutions to address specific financial needs
Customer demand: Meeting expectations for real-time, cost-efficient financial services
Market access: Seamlessly participating in multichain ecosystem to access liquidity
Cost predictability: Stabilizing operational expenses to support scalable growth
This PoC highlighted ZKsync Validium’s capability to support UBS privacy and interoperability requirements. By leveraging blockchain technology, UBS continues to explore innovative ways to enhance its financial offerings.
ZKsync is the pioneering ZK technology powering the next generation of builders with limitless scale. Secured by math and designed for native interoperability, ZKsync enables an elastic network, an ever-expanding ecosystem of customizable chains. Deeply rooted in its mission to advance personal freedom for all, the ZKsync technology makes digital self-ownership universally available.
To learn more about ZKsync, visit https://enterprise.zksync.io/
A strategic step toward modernizing digital gold investments with blockchain technology
UBS recently conducted a technical proof-of-concept (PoC) for tokenized gold, testing ZKsync Validium, a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain solution designed to scale Ethereum while maintaining privacy. Financial service providers leveraging Ethereum must adopt strategies to maximize the network’s utility.
The goal of the technical PoC was to address challenges in scalability, privacy, and interoperability as UBS experimented to expand UBS Gold into global markets, in a test environment. Following a thorough evaluation of blockchain options, ZKsync Validium was selected for its ability to meet the specific requirements of a hypothetical tokenized gold network. This PoC reflects UBS’s continued efforts to explore how blockchain can enhance its financial offerings.
To address these challenges, UBS evaluated multiple blockchain technologies and identified ZKsync Validium as a promising choice. ZKsync Validium addresses three critical needs:
Enhanced scalability: High transaction throughput at lower costs by storing data off-chain
Privacy: Transaction data is stored off-chain, ensuring confidentiality for users
Interoperability: Seamlessly connects to Ethereum, ‘’the foundational layer for Decentralized Finance (DeFi)’’ (-UBS) enabling cross-network asset transfers
The PoC simulated a tokenized gold Network on ZKsync Validium, testing the feasibility of meeting all above mentioned requirements, while assessing cost implications. To achieve this, smart contracts were deployed on a testnet to simulate a gold network. These contracts carried out key functionalities, including: gold token issuance, transaction processing and reconciliation.
Key Objectives:
Technical feasibility: evaluate operational requirements and implementation options for scalability and privacy
Business viability: Analyze cost implications under various transaction volume scenarios
The PoC successfully demonstrated UBS’s ability to meet its privacy and interoperability objectives while addressing scalability requirements to a significant extent. By leveraging Validium mode, UBS ensured user privacy, allowing participants to view only their activity while enabling verifiability through Ethereum’s L1 bridge smart contract. Interoperability was also validated in the test as stablecoins bridged from Ethereum were successfully utilized to purchase gold tokens, and dummy tokens were employed to simplify reconciliation processes for back-office operations. While ZKsync’s Validium supported high throughput, achieving optimal cost efficiency would require thousands of transactions per hour, highlighting opportunities for further scalability optimization.
Building on the success of the PoC, the results underscored the broader potential for integrating L2 solutions into UBS’s operations. Key opportunities include:
Future proofing: Preparing for increased transaction volumes without bottlenecks
Customization: Creating tailored solutions to address specific financial needs
Customer demand: Meeting expectations for real-time, cost-efficient financial services
Market access: Seamlessly participating in multichain ecosystem to access liquidity
Cost predictability: Stabilizing operational expenses to support scalable growth
This PoC highlighted ZKsync Validium’s capability to support UBS privacy and interoperability requirements. By leveraging blockchain technology, UBS continues to explore innovative ways to enhance its financial offerings.
ZKsync is the pioneering ZK technology powering the next generation of builders with limitless scale. Secured by math and designed for native interoperability, ZKsync enables an elastic network, an ever-expanding ecosystem of customizable chains. Deeply rooted in its mission to advance personal freedom for all, the ZKsync technology makes digital self-ownership universally available.
To learn more about ZKsync, visit https://enterprise.zksync.io/
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