Report: Zksync Sets 2026 Roadmap Focused On Privacy And Institutional Adoption

ZKsync’s 2026 plan shifts focus from experimentation to production-ready infrastructure designed for banks, enterprises and regulated financial systems.

Its plan, published by Matter Labs co-founder and CEO Alex Gluchowski, frames zero-knowledge technology as a foundational infrastructure for regulated finance.

The roadmap follows a year of infrastructure delivery. In 2025, the network rolled out core components including Atlas, Prividium and Airbender. According to Gluchowski, these systems were designed to meet operational realities faced by banks, enterprises and governments, where confidentiality and performance are critical requirements.

With regulatory conditions improving across jurisdictions, ZKsync argued that the remaining challenge for institutional adoption is infrastructure. Because of this, the 2026 roadmap transitions from technical foundations into real-world deployments.

The company said its goal is to integrate private execution directly into enterprise workflows, including identity management, approval processes, auditing and compliance reporting.

“Sensitive financial data cannot be public without breaking competitiveness, confidentiality, and law,” Gluchowski wrote. “This is obvious to anyone in traditional finance, yet has been routinely overlooked in crypto.”

“A clearing house must reliably process margin calls during market stress; on shared networks, unrelated activity can consume blockspace and jeopardize risk-critical operations,” Gluchowski said.

Such features mirror expectations in traditional financial environments.

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ZKsync also plans to evolve its ZK Stack from a framework for individual chains into an orchestrated system of public and private networks.

Source: CoinTelegraph