zkSync adoption remains fragmented

Arbitrum holds $16.4 billion in TVL across its chains as of mid‑March 2026. (portal.arbitrum.io) CoinGecko shows Base at about $3.95 billion in TVL while zkSync Era’s TVL sits near $400 million after Ignite‑era inflows. (coingecko.com) Aggregate TVL across Ethereum rollups surpassed $45 billion in late March 2026. (coinreporter.io) Cross‑chain bridges hold roughly $21.9 billion of liquidity, highlighting heavy use of bridge rails for inter‑L2 movement. (coinalertnews.com) Electric Capital’s developer report lists 113 full‑time developers and 325 monthly active developers working on the zkSync ecosystem. (developerreport.com) Matter Labs, zkSync’s lead developer, raised a $200 million Series C in November 2022 and has aggregate disclosed funding near $458 million on Tracxn. (dailycoin.com) zkSync’s Ignite incentive program allocated 300 million ZK tokens (about $60 million at launch) to liquidity incentives and coincided with Era TVL rising from roughly $97 million to $184 million in early January 2025. (exbasi.com) DefiLlama‑based reporting shows Era’s stablecoin deposits reached about $163 million by January 24, 2026. (nftgators.com) Chain‑level metrics show liquidity concentrated in a handful of L2s—Arbitrum’s $16.4B and Base’s $3.95B capture most AMM and perpetual market depth. (portal.arbitrum.io) That concentration pushes uneven cross‑L2 migration patterns, with large flows routed through bridges and aggregators rather than native migrations to Era. (coinalertnews.com) The zkSync SDK organization maintains multiple active repositories (including zksync‑ethers) with recent commits, indicating continued tooling and SDK development even as app‑level liquidity trails bigger rollups. (github.com)