ZKsync co-founder Alex Gluchowski said the project would no longer pursue the enterprise licensing fees in its previous year’s ZK tokenomics proposal. In a ZK Nation forum post reported by Foresight News on November 13, 2026, he said open source was important to institutional adoption.
The earlier model assumed institutions would use Ethereum as a shared settlement layer, connecting Prividium Ledger deployments as L2s and generating interoperability fees. Gluchowski said some institutions instead chose sovereign chains or private consortium chains. ZKsync responded with Prividium Commander for existing systems and Prividium Connect, a cross-chain private transaction product released that week.
Under the revised plan, official canonical deployments of Prividium Connect on public chains would charge interoperability fees. Those fees may eventually be converted into ZK through the Fee Flow system, with governance deciding how the resulting tokens are allocated. The fee-switch code is public and under audit, and Fee Flow contracts have been deployed on ZKsync Era. Final deployment and activation still require ZKsync governance approval.
Original report: Foresight News · Published November 13, 2026, 21:17 (UTC+8).