Introducing Prividium Commander: your digital assets control plane. Institutions can now take digital assets from pilots to revenue with one product that runs under their own rules and connects to the systems they already use.

Why is Commander such a big deal for @zksync? Because it gives us a way into every financial institution. Until now, ZKsync was only relevant for players who had already decided they needed a new private chain. But while the pressure to modernize financial infrastructure keeps growing, replacing core banking systems with a blockchain comes at the end, not the beginning, of that journey. As leaders from NYSE, DTCC, and Cari Network noted on a panel with me yesterday, even the most innovative institutions are taking the “crawl, walk, run” approach to digital assets. Commander is the new starting point. It addresses one of the earliest challenges institutions face: the operational complexity of launching and running new products and services. How do we get started while preserving established processes, maintaining control over day-to-day operations, and meeting privacy and compliance requirements? Commander is an easy decision for them—and the first decision must be easy. Getting any new software into a bank takes serious effort on both sides. Procurement has to approve the vendor, security and compliance teams have to approve the product, and engineers have to connect it to the bank’s existing users, applications and workflows. Once Commander is integrated, offering more becomes much easier. We can help the institution upgrade to Prividium Ledger while keeping the integrations already built, and work toward connecting its business to the broader network. Which brings me to an important point: connecting institutions to ZKsync will also change ZKsync itself. Financial institutions work very differently from the crypto-native world. Building Prividium around their requirements has made it clear that ZKsync needs to evolve, including its economics and the role of the $ZK token. Commander is only the first step in that direction. I’m extremely excited about this next chapter for ZKsync and can’t wait to share more soon.

FULL CONVERSATION: Alex Gluchowski On The Tokenization Supercycle And Why Banks Are Turning To ZK Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:32 What Prividium Commander is 02:23 Why launch at Money20/20 04:20 The pilot era is over 09:21 Decades-old systems and vendor lock-in 11:51 Banks are operators, not builders 14:24 Why banks love tokenized deposits 19:56 Banks, brokerages and custodians 22:43 How institutions connect on ZKsync 26:01 Why world finance could run on ZK 28:08 Technology that solves problems 32:21 The 24/7 mandate and where to start @gluk64 @zksync @therollupco

Most banks have tested blockchain, but @gluk64 says very few have shipped it. The @the_matter_labs CEO says the holdup isn’t the tech. It’s the plumbing. He joins @jennsanasie to break down Prividium Commander, what banks want from ZK privacy and what it takes to get from pilot to production. 00:00 - Matter Labs’ Alex Gluchowski Joins Markets Outlook 01:40 - What Is Prividium Commander? 02:03 - Why Bank Blockchain Pilots Stall Before Production 04:30 - What Happens When Banks Build Their Own Plumbing 05:34 - How Cari Network Is Bringing 30 Banks to Tokenized Deposits 06:48 - The Path From Commander to ZK 09:06 - What Institutions Want From ZK Privacy 10:52 - Can Blockchains Handle Bank-Level Volume? 12:04 - Matter Labs’ Vision for a Global Digital Asset Economy

📺 Catch @gluk64 on @therollupco explaining how Prividium Commander enables institutions to take digital assets from pilots to revenue with one product.

📸 @gluk64 announcing Prividium Commander during his @money2020 keynote.

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