Published Dec 15, 2025
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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:
Your chain remains your chain. Our role is to keep it robust and reliable.
A typical managed setup:
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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