ChainCatcher news, Matter Labs co-founder and CEO Alex stated in the latest community AMA that zkSync is now fully focused on Era, aiming to build a scalable value internet using the ZK Stack.zkSync Era will switch to the STARK-based proof system Boojum, which is currently in the final stages. Once the switch is complete, it will bring more efficient oracles and lower-cost on-chain privacy.

ChainCatcher news, a16z Crypto announced this week the open-source on-chain privacy voting system Cicada, aimed at achieving on-chain privacy voting on the Ethereum blockchain by utilizing time-lock puzzles and zero-knowledge proofs to minimize trust assumptions.a16z Crypto developer Michael Zhu stated on social media that the existing on-chain voting functionality of Cicada "is not yet ready for high-risk real-world use cases," while citing Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's article on blockchain voting, which claims that "blockchain voting is overestimated among the uninformed but underestimated among the informed." However, Michael Zhu believes that the related issues can be resolved in the future. (source link)