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Matter Labs engineers drive zkSync Paymaster and Prividium roadmap
Matter Labs engineers execute the 2026 Prividium roadmap through a monthly allocation of 67M ZK. This funding supports Prividium engineering, business development, and continued investment in the ZK Stack and Airbender layers. Alex Gluchowski and Alex Vlasov lead the engineering efforts. The allocation follows a 5/7 Program Admin Multisig structure that includes three Foundation signers, two ZKGPS signers, and two Security Council signers. The Token Assembly maintains the power to revoke any future minter at any time. This monthly distribution lasts for twelve months. The 2026 roadmap directs 67M ZK tokens each month to Matter Labs to fund Prividium engineering and the deployment of the ZK Stack and Airbender layers over a period of twelve months as part of the institutional deployment strategy. At the $0.015/ZK reference price, the allocation provides approximately $1M USD each month to the engineering teams.
The mechanics of native account abstraction
The Paymaster infrastructure is the technical basis for gasless transactions on ZKsync Era. Unlike the ERC-4337 standard, which requires a separate Bundler and an EntryPoint.sol contract, ZKsync includes paymaster functionality as a first-class feature of the protocol. All accounts on the network are smart contracts. This design allows the bootloader smart contract to determine additional account logic and call the Paymaster directly. You already understand how L2s scale Ethereum, so the distinction between layered and native account abstraction matters for your deployment strategy. In the ERC-4337 model, a user must interact with a system contract called EntryPoint.sol, and a specialized service known as a Bundler must process transactions in an alternative mempool. On ZKsync, the operator processes transactions from a unified mempool, performing the roles of both validator and bundler.
| Dimension | ERC-4337 | Native AA (zkSync Era) |
|---|---|---|
| Consensus change | No | Yes |
| Account type | New contract wallet | All accounts are contracts |
| Infrastructure | Bundler, EntryPoint, Paymaster | Wallet client, delegation target |
| Gas overhead | ~10,800 gas higher | Lower than ERC-4337 |
The implementation of native account abstraction on ZKsync Era addresses the limitations of the ERC-4337 standard. The bootloader smart contract is the core of the protocol and consolidates the work of all main system smart contracts.
Institutional deployment of Prividium
Market metrics and the roadmap
Market data from Q3 2026 shows Layer 2 TVL reached $150B, while Ethereum L1 DeFi TVL stood at $130B. ZK token supply experienced an unlock of 173.41 million tokens on September 19, 2026. This release was 0.83% of the maximum supply to the team and investors. As the network moves toward a modular system of interoperable chains, the ZK token utility increases. The v31 protocol upgrade, which was planned for completion by the end of Q2 2026, introduced native interoperability and a fixed fee of 10 ZK per cross-chain transaction. This upgrade connects chains like Memento and Cari. High competition and long timelines for regulated financial adoption are obstacles for the roadmap. Will the network capture the remaining 25% of global RWA tokenization by 2028?
