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Published Dec 15, 2025
Announcing ZKsync Managed Services from Matter Labs
Enterprises and financial institutions are increasingly embracing blockchains as a practical way to coordinate value, automate workflows, and build new products across organizational boundaries.
But for most organizations, running production-grade blockchain infrastructure is not a core competency. Standing up a rollup, securing it, operating proving and sequencing infrastructure, integrating it with existing systems, and keeping everything compliant and monitored 24/7 is closer to running a distributed systems platform than deploying a smart contract. The result is predictable: delayed launches, blown budgets, and teams forced into running infrastructure they never wanted to own.
We’re excited to announce that Matter Labs is extending its operational experience running ZKsync into a new offering: ZKsync Managed Services, for teams that want the benefits of custom blockchains without taking on the complexity of operating them.
We provide a one-stop solution: ZK-chains-as-a-service, high-performance RPC, webhooks/event delivery, and the surrounding tooling operated by the team that designs and runs ZKsync itself. You keep sovereignty over your chain; we take responsibility for keeping the infrastructure secure, reliable, and performant.
This post explains why we are doing this, what we offer, who it is for, and how to work with us.
Why Enterprises Choose Dedicated ZK Stack Chains
Many financial institutions and enterprises are finding that shared blockspace is not always the right place to run their applications.
Custom, dedicated blockchains built with the ZK Stack allow organizations to:
- Control performance and costs
Run on infrastructure designed for high throughput (>15K TPS) and low latency, with predictable fee economics tuned to specific business lines instead of competing with global traffic on a shared chain. - Fully customize the chain to the use case
Configure the system—including DA layer, gas token, MEV policy, public vs private vs permissioned access, and other parameters—so the chain matches product, regulatory, and market needs rather than forcing the product to fit a general-purpose platform. - Maintain sovereignty while inheriting Ethereum security
Retain full control over the system and upgrades, while relying on Ethereum for finality and security and connecting to other ZK Stack chains through trust-minimized, protocol-level interoperability. - Preserve privacy while remaining interoperable
Use Prividiums for private execution when required; keeping positions, counterparties, and order books private at the transaction level while still settling to Ethereum and interoperating with other chains in the network. - Align security, governance, and operations with existing systems
Integrate with existing identity, observability, compliance, and DevOps tooling so the chain becomes another managed platform in the stack, with governance, controls, and audit trails that mirror internal policies rather than sitting as an isolated experiment.
On top of this architecture, we are already seeing demand for use cases such as internal treasury management, intraday repo, cross-border payments, clearing and settlement infrastructure, and tokenized deposits, where performance, customizability, interoperability, and privacy are mandatory.
The challenge is that designing, operating, and securing these systems is not trivial. It is mission-critical infrastructure, and many organizations prefer to partner with a team that already runs it at scale.
Introducing ZKsync Managed Services
Matter Labs has spent years building and operating ZKsync infrastructure in production: sequencers, provers, nodes, RPC endpoints, and upgrades, with incident response around the clock.
We are now offering this expertise as a managed service for organizations that want to launch their own systems powered by the ZK Stack.
At a high level, the service provides:
- Design and architecture
Jointly defining the right architecture: settlement layer, data availability configuration, throughput and latency targets, and integration points with existing systems. - Deployment and configuration
Provisioning and configuring sequencers, provers, nodes, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and secrets management in dedicated, compliant environments. - 24/7 operations
Continuous monitoring, incident response, and infrastructure management under clear SLAs. - Lifecycle management
Upgrades, security patches, performance tuning, and capacity planning handled by the team that builds the core technology. - Full stack, plus partner add-ons
Integration with wallets, bridges, indexers, and other ecosystem infrastructure so users can interact with your rollup using familiar tools.
This forms the operations layer for the ZK Stack: opinionated defaults, best practices, and tooling wrapped into a service.
Partners can focus on their core business, product, and users. We focus on making sure the system runs, scales, and behaves the way a critical system should.
An Engine for the ZKsync Ecosystem
It is natural to ask why a protocol company is moving into managed services. The short answer: we believe this can be a powerful engine for the ZKsync ecosystem, powering growth.
There are several key reasons:
Using the ZK Stack End-to-End
When developing a product, it is important to eat your own dogfood. By operating ZK chains directly, we sit in the front row and see how real users and enterprises interact with the stack.
When we hosted multiple Prividium-based chains for financial institutions, we saw exactly which features they needed, what broke under stress, and where the developer experience created friction. This was invaluable feedback.
Running chains for partners makes Matter Labs the ultimate power user of the ZK Stack. This pushes our roadmap toward real-world needs and allows us to iterate faster for the benefit of every chain in the ecosystem.
Reducing Barriers to Entry and Time to Mainnet
Today, deploying and operating a blockchain is risky, complex, and expensive but teams do it anyway because these systems are valuable. Dozens of ZK chains have already launched on mainnet, and many more are in development.
This is reminiscent of the early internet era, when companies racked their own servers because there was no alternative. Then cloud providers arrived and transformed developer experience.
We see the same opportunity for ZK chains. By removing the operational friction of launching and maintaining a chain, we can unlock a new wave of adoption. Our goal is to make launching a chain feel as simple and dependable as spinning up cloud infrastructure.
If every project that wants a ZK chain has to spin up a DevOps team and get familiar with the system, it will be a barrier to progress. ZK technology is in a phase of accelerated adoption, and with ZKsync Managed Services we can partner with teams to spin up new chains, onboard use cases, and support scale immediately, letting partners go from idea to production in days rather than months. Partners get to focus on their customers and business goals, without the headache that can come with managing infrastructure.
A One-Stop Shop, Optimized
Many production blockchain systems today are assembled from a patchwork of vendors: with different teams providing RPCs, indexers, explorers, monitoring, and custom glue code to hold it all together. Each component has its own SLAs, support channels, and failure modes.
With ZKsync Managed Services, you get a full‑stack chain: an all‑in‑one, fully integrated setup designed and operated as a single system rather than a loose collection of products. Sequencing, proving, nodes, RPC, event delivery, monitoring, and lifecycle management are all built to work together, optimized around the needs of ZKsync‑based chains.
For partners, this means simpler vendor management. The result is a turnkey environment: a ZKsync chain that arrives ready for production, with the core stack pre‑integrated and tuned, so teams can focus on building products and markets rather than stitching together infrastructure.
Deploying Core Protocol Expertise
Critical incidents are a risk in any complex system, but for blockchains billions of dollars can be at risk.
As the core developers of ZKsync, we have the deepest insight into the internals and the strongest incentive to invest in resilience: multiple clients and prover systems, robust monitoring, stress testing, and clear incident playbooks.
With more ZK chains operated according to these standards, the entire ecosystem is better prepared for “rainy days.” We are taking responsibility now to help ensure that thousands of ZK chains can run smoothly and recover safely.
Building Sustainable, Ecosystem-Aligned Revenue
Matter Labs is fortunate to have a well-funded treasury, but as the crypto industry matures it is clear that companies will need sustainable business models.
Matter Labs intends to continue investing heavily into the development of the core ZKsync protocol. By generating recurring revenue from operating chains and services, we can fund this development sustainably and in an ecosystem-aligned way.
Who Benefits From Managed Chains?
ZKsync Managed Services are useful for any team who wants to connect to the Ethereum ecosystem with the performance and control offered by launching their own chain, but does not want to become a blockchain operations team.
A few recurring profiles:
- Web3 teams inside global institutions
Digital asset teams at banks and large enterprises who want to support tokenization, settlement, or new market structures on mainnet, and require a compliant, reliable, and well-operated environment, with clear accountability and SLAs. - Institutions needing privacy and control
Organizations that need tightly controlled infrastructure for regulatory reasons. With Prividium-based private chains, they can get Ethereum-aligned security and privacy features with 24/7 operations handled by Matter Labs. - Funded startups with ambitious roadmaps
Teams that have outgrown general purpose environments and want to control performance, fees, and block space. They can deploy dedicated ZK chain tailored to their use case while we handle the operational heavy lifting. - Crypto-native apps hitting scaling limits
DeFi, and consumer projects that need predictable throughput and custom economics. A dedicated system gives them room to grow without forcing them to hire & train a DevOps team.
In all of these cases, the common pattern is clear: they want to focus on their core business and users, not on managing GPUs or setting up new on-call rotations.
Sovereignty, Not Lock-In
A critical principle for us is that every ZKsync-based chain must maintain its sovereignty, even if we are the ones hosting it.
In practice, this means:
- The chain’s core identity and assets remain under the control of its owners. You hold the keys. Matter Labs does not take custody of your network’s assets or governance privileges.
- No vendor lock-in. If you decide to move off our managed service you can do so without penalties or exit fees.
- Strong access controls and approvals. Administrative actions are protected by multi-factor controls and rigorous access policies. Even though we run the infrastructure, critical operations require explicit approval from the chain’s owners.
Your chain remains your chain. Our role is to keep it robust and reliable.
What We Manage for You
A typical managed setup:
- Core system infrastructure
- Sequencer clusters and failover
- Prover infrastructure and proof submission
- Full, archive, and indexer nodes
- RPC endpoints, load balancing, and traffic controls
- Security and reliability
- Key and secret management for infrastructure components
- DDoS mitigation and rate limiting at RPC and sequencing layers
- Disaster recovery and backup strategies
- Continuous security monitoring and patching
- Observability and analytics
- Metrics, logs, and traces across all components
- Dashboards for operations, product, and compliance teams
- Alerting and escalation paths tailored to your organization
- Lifecycle and change management
- Coordinated upgrades of system components
- Staging and testing environments mirroring production
- Capacity planning for expected growth and peak events
Powering the Future of the ZKsync Network
We believe that the future digital asset economy will be powered by many thousands of ZK chains, all anchored to Ethereum. We expect many enterprises and institutions will participate in this economy via infrastructure they control.
ZKsync Managed Services is our way of accelerating the realization of that future. By operating chains ourselves, we help partners ship faster, learn faster, and run with mainnet-grade reliability from day one.
Importantly, managed services are not a replacement for self-hosting, and we also want to see a thriving landscape of other infrastructure and rollup-as-a-service providers.The ZK Stack will remain fully open-source and available for anyone to deploy independently. The network will be at its healthiest with a mix of self-hosted and managed systems (with competition among providers pushing everyone to do better). Some of our partners, especially in tightly regulated industries, already run their own infrastructure in their own cloud environments or on-prem. We will continue to support them and improve the self-hosted experience.
If your organization is exploring app-specific rollups or dedicated blockchain infrastructure and you prefer to focus on product rather than low-level operations, we are ready to help.
To discuss your requirements and learn more about ZKsync Managed Services, contact the Matter Labs team at bizdev@matterlabs.dev. We will work with you to define the right architecture, deployment model, and operational setup so you can build on ZK technology with confidence.
More information: www.zksync.io/managed-services
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