Matter Labs, the company incubating the ZkSync Ethereum Layer 2 network, has dropped all attempts to trademark the term "ZK," the company announced on X, following backlash from pioneering zero-knowledge proof or "ZK" researchers.
After Matter Labs announced its intention to trademark the term "ZK," several representatives of leading ZK projects, including Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali, co-inventors of ZK proofs, Sandeep Nailwal and Brendan Farmer, co-founders of Polygon, and Eli Ben-Sasson, CEO of StarkWare, released a statement condemning the move.
The controversy around ZkSync's trademark application came just as the protocol is planning for an airdrop that's expected to occur in mid-June, The Block previously reported. Its intent to use the ticker ZK led to a clash with Polyhedra, which opted to use the ZKJ ticker for its own token listing.
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