Introduction

Alex is the co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs, the initial team behind ZKSync. Alex: I grew up in Ukraine made me realize how important freedom is for the well-being, for the prosperity of the society. He says Bitcoin felt like too premature technologically; it just didn't feel like you cannot really onboard 1 billion people into it with managing their own seed phrases. And then he learned about zero knowledge proofs and it was clear that it's a perfect match. Like this is how we solve scalability and we bring crypto in the hands of basically everyone in the world. But first, Alex is going to tell us the founding story of ZKSsync.