Proposal Review Call — Notes, September 2, 2026
Time: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 Recording: Starting with this call, recordings are no longer published to YouTube. Automated summaries will be published on the forum (see Administrative updates below). Speakers: Rafa (ZKsync Association), Alisha (ZKsync Association), Shelby (ex-Gov Team), Pablo and Sabrina (ZKsync Latam), The ZKnomist, Mad Maxx, Rika (Axia, delegate)
Agenda
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Administrative updates
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ZKsync Latam — Season 2 report
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The ZKnomist — Season 2 report and funding extension
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Security Council — 2026 patch notice and budget proposal
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Closing
1. Administrative updates
Shelby’s departure. Shelby formally closed out two years of work on the ZKsync governance system at the Association. She thanked the delegates and partners she worked with and intends to remain active in the ZKsync community while she explores what comes next.
Delegate announcements channel. The Telegram channel provides ticker-style updates on forum posts and on-chain proposal timing. @ zksyncDelegateAnnouncements
Forum moderation. Because of a high volume of posts violating Code of Conduct, new forum posts from low-trust-level accounts will pass through moderator approval before they appear. Expect some delay between posting and publication.
Recordings → markdown. The YouTube channel is being deprecated. Text summaries will be published so they are easier to read, search, and feed into AI tools. Rafa is setting up a repository for these transcripts and summaries, this will be available in the next months.
2. ZKsync Latam — Season 2 report
Presenters: Pablo Mosquera, Sabrina Olivo
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Season 2 shifted the program’s focus from building a developer community to institutional engagement, with the most progress in Brazil.
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The team built a contact pipeline and CRM, attended industry events, and works in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
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Local partnerships have been the main channel for business development. The team is also feeding product feedback from institutional conversations back to Matter Labs.
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The team is working with the Association on expanding the institutional effort in the next period.
Barriers to Prividium adoption. Asked by Rafa what is slowing adoption, Sabrina named three:
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The value proposition needs to be reduced to concrete use cases for financial institutions rather than a description of what the stack can do.
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Institutions want proof points — named parties already using the technology.
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Privacy is not yet a regulatory requirement for financial institutions, so there is no compliance forcing function.
Rafa agreed with the first point: the team understands the flexibility of the stack but has difficulty stating simple, specific use cases to non-technical stakeholders.
Governance in institutional conversations. Rika asked how to educate institutions on governance participation. Responses:
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Pablo: Governance is not a priority in early institutional conversations. Institutions focus on product utility and value; decentralized decision-making comes later, if at all.
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Rafa: Partners tend to treat governance as a piece of technical infrastructure tied to regulatory compliance and the sovereignty of their own deployment, not as a use case.
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Sabrina: Many institutions are early in adopting the technology and lean on managed services to handle the technical side.
3. The ZKnomist — Season 2 report and funding
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The ZKnomist exceeded Season 2 targets with roughly 10 million impressions, oriented toward reaching a broader audience per the goals set with Matter Labs.
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Mad Maxx confirmed the report. Rafa noted the team’s contribution to ZKsync communications and to Prividium awareness.
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The Foundation has proposed extending funding for The ZKnomist’s work.
4. Security Council updates
Presenter: Alisha
2026 patch notice. A notice covering security patches executed in 2026 has been published. No further detailed reporting on these patches will follow: publishing specifics would hand exploit-relevant data to AI models and raise security risk rather than reduce it.
Budget proposal. The Security Council budget proposal is forthcoming. Key points:
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Funding is reduced roughly 60% versus the prior year.
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Payments move to USDC to remove exposure to token price movement.
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Council engagement has been high: members have consistently signed off on instant upgrades inside the six-hour SLA.
Alisha will publish the full report on Security Council status and budget before voting opens. Delegates are asked to review it once it is up.
5. Closing
ScopeLift is expected to join a future call to walk through technical improvements and upcoming governance changes.