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If we observe @zksync within the evolution path of financial infrastructure, we find that it is closer to a network inflection point rather than a purely technological stage. Historically, infrastructure has never been about perfecting functions first, but about forming connections first. SWIFT addresses the transmission of information between banks, Visa solves the connectivity issues of payment networks. Their commonality lies in that once connections reach scale, standards will in turn constrain participants. ZKsync is experiencing a similar process, but the underlying trust shifts from centralized to cryptographic verification. Understanding this change requires answering a more fundamental question: why have institutions not entered blockchain at scale for a long time? The reason is not complicated; it’s that constraints cannot be satisfied simultaneously. Banks deal not with public transactions but with sensitive asset flows, which makes privacy a prerequisite. The system must operate within a regulated environment, requiring controllable execution. Transaction results must be trustworthy, but cannot rely on a single institution, which calls for cryptographic verification. At the same time, it must connect to larger liquidity networks to avoid forming isolated islands. Past architectures often made a choice between transparency and decentralization, but rarely covered all four conditions simultaneously. This is why institutions remain in pilot phases. ZKsync’s Prividium offers a different combination: Through zero-knowledge proofs, enabling verifiable but non-public data structures; Through controlled execution environments, meeting compliance requirements; Through Ethereum settlement, ensuring the final state is trustworthy; While maintaining connectivity with the mainnet to ensure liquidity flow; When these four conditions are met simultaneously, the system gains the capacity to support institutional behavior. Once the fundamental conditions are in place, network effects begin to dominate expansion, and the growth in the number of institutions leads to an exponential increase in connections. The more connections, the richer the internal transaction pathways, and the stronger the network’s attractiveness to new participants—this is why infrastructure competition ultimately evolves into network competition. At this stage, the nature of participants is more important than their quantity; when institutions with regulatory experience and capital management capabilities enter, they bring not just traffic but rules and trust pathways. This influences subsequent institutional entry decisions; for example, the entry of participants with regulatory backgrounds indicates that the network is being incorporated into compliance frameworks. Access to bank deposit scales means real funds begin to migrate, testing the pathway. These two factors together cause the network to shift from a technical system to part of the financial system. In this structure, ZK’s positioning needs to be precisely understood: $ZK is the native asset of the ZKsync network and serves governance functions, used to coordinate protocol upgrades and key parameters. It is also the native gas token of ZKsync Gateway, which is responsible for bundling transactions from the ZKsync chain and Prividium environment and submitting them to Ethereum for settlement. Therefore, ZK exists both at the governance layer and in the execution path. It’s important to emphasize that the goal of this design is to maintain network consistency, not to build an independent value narrative. As the network continues to expand, the most critical change is not the number of applications but the density of settlement pathways. Every new institution joining increases the routes through which funds can flow; once connections become dense enough, the network itself becomes infrastructure. And ZKsync is approaching this critical point.