- zkSync Era becomes the second-largest blockchain for RWA after a 953.79% surge, reaching $2.03 billion in 30 days.
- With Ethereum leading at $4.12 billion, zkSync’s rapid growth is driven by incentives, institutional adoption, and its Layer-2 scalability solutions.
In the last 30 days, zkSync Era has experienced a significant increase in the real-world asset (RWA) sector. Rising with a 953.79% growth, its value now stands at $2.03 billion, second only to Ethereum, still ruling with $4.12 billion, according to RWA.XYZ. This statistic is the outcome of a sequence of calculated actions made by the zkSync development team.
zkSync’s Roadmap: Speed, Privacy, and Adoption
The Ignite program is mostly responsible for this explosive expansion. The program allocates 300 million ZK tokens (equivalent to $60 million) over the next nine months to attract more liquidity to the zkSync Layer-2 network. Increasing the total value locked (TVL), a major metric of network adoption, depends on such incentives.
Moreover, zkSync has produced a roadmap for 2025 emphasizing three areas: scalability, user experience, and privacy. With a transaction fee hardly discernible at $0.0001, the objective is somewhat ambitious—over 10,000 transactions per second.
Furthermore, zkSync intends to provide tools compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) bytecode, therefore facilitating the building of applications on their network.
Major Institutions Turn to zkSync for On-Chain Finance
Looking back, November 2024 was a turning point for zkSync in the conversation on asset tokenizing. Looking to switch to an on-chain system, financial institutions are drawn to the blockchain more and more.
One such is the collaboration between zkSync and Victory Park Capital, which on their network effectively turned over $500 million in private credit assets into tokens.
Besides that, CNF reported the developments made by UBS, the biggest bank in Switzerland, in February 2025. Operating on one of zkSync Validium’s Layer-2 solutions, one of which is UBS Key4 Gold, a fractional gold investment product, UBS effectively finished a concept trial for it. This move seeks to enhance in the digital gold investment environment privacy, interoperability, and transaction speed.
Market Pressure Weighs on ZK Token Performance
Although the growth record of zkSync seems somewhat compelling, it does not imply that everything is running without problems. As of press time, the ZK token is experiencing pressure in the market. ZK is swapped hands at about $0.08331, down 5.01% over the last 24 hours and 7.99% over the last 7 days. This pressure is most likely related to the overall crypto market conditions, which are currently facing high volatility.
Looking at the larger trend, though, zkSync still seems to be headed in the correct direction for ongoing expansion. It is not impossible that zkSync will keep closing the gap with Ethereum in the RWA tokenization market using their aggressive strategy—in terms of incentives, technological adoption, and cooperation with big institutions.
