Matter Labs, the team behind Ethereum layer-2 network zkSync, announced on June 2 that it would drop all trademark applications for “zero-knowledge (ZK).”
Last week, the firm came under intense scrutiny due to its attempt to trademark the ZK term. Industry stakeholders, including Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal and Brendan Farmer, StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, Polyhedra Network co-founder Tiancheng Xie, and Turing Award winner Shafi Goldwasser, wrote a strongly worded joint statement condemning Matter Labs’ actions.
These experts argued that ZK was a public good no company should own. They furthered that Matter Labs’ actions negated the core ethos that the crypto industry holds dear.
Matter Labs succumb
In response to these demands, Matter Labs said it was dropping its trademark efforts for the term while appreciating the community efforts. It stated:
“These discussions came down to one important fact: it would be impossible to agree on a group of people perceived a
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