Alex Gluchowski, CEO of Matter Labs, built ZKSync as an L2 scaling project. When a dozen other L2s converged on doing the same thing, he pivoted to a harder problem: getting banks on-chain.

In this conversation, we get into what actually secures a blockchain (hint: not the validators) and how zero-knowledge proofs allow institutions to maintain privacy without sacrificing enforcement guarantees. We also cover token design, governance, and why Alex thinks institutions are much closer to production than the market realises.

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