
Crypto industry reacts after Clarity Act fails Senate vote
The Clarity Act fell short of 60 votes in the Senate. CoinDesk rounds up how crypto and banking leaders, including Matter Labs, are reading the outcome.

Published Jan 13, 2026 · Cointelegraph
ZKsync's 2026 roadmap shifts from experimentation to production, prioritizing privacy, deterministic control and native interoperability for institutional adoption.
ZKsync 2026 Roadmap: Privacy and Institutional Infrastructure
ZKsync released its 2026 roadmap centering privacy, deterministic control and native interoperability as core pillars for institutional digital asset adoption.
CEO Alex Gluchowski outlined how Prividium, the network's privacy-focused execution environment, becomes the default layer for enterprise applications — enabling transactions without exposing balances, counterparties or internal logic.
The roadmap also evolves ZK Stack from isolated chains into an orchestrated system of public and private networks with native cross-chain connectivity, removing the need for external bridges.
Institutional partnerships initiated in 2025 are progressing toward production deployments expected to serve millions of users.

The Clarity Act fell short of 60 votes in the Senate. CoinDesk rounds up how crypto and banking leaders, including Matter Labs, are reading the outcome.

Matter Labs open-sources Prividium's permissioning engine so institutions can run a permissioned chain in their own environment — Bundesbank tests it first.