ZKsync Drops Enterprise Licensing-Fee Proposal From Token-Economics Plan

ZKsync will stop pursuing enterprise licensing fees in its token-economics proposal, co-founder Alex Gluchowski said, while keeping open a possible path for public-chain interoperability fees to convert into ZKsync (ZK).

Gluchowski cited open-source access as important to institutional adoption. The earlier model assumed institutions would use Ethereum as a shared settlement layer, with Prividium Ledger deployments connecting as Layer 2 networks and generating interoperability fees.

Some institutions chose sovereign chains or private consortium chains instead. ZKsync introduced Prividium Commander for existing systems and launched Prividium Connect, a private cross-chain transaction product, this week.

The retained public-chain fee plan would collect interoperability fees from canonical Prividium Connect deployments. Those fees could later be converted into ZK through Fee Flow, with governance deciding how any tokens are distributed.

The fee-switch code is public and undergoing an audit, and the Fee Flow contract is deployed on ZKsync Era. Governance must still approve the fee switch’s final deployment and activation.