ZKsync will officially discontinue ZKsync Lite on May 4th, and the project will be integrated into the Era ecosystem.

ZKsync has announced that it will officially deprecate ZKsync Lite on May 4th, at which time block production will cease and the network's final state will be permanently frozen. ZKsync Lite was launched in June 2020 under the name ZKsync 1.0 and was considered Ethereum's first zero-knowledge proof rollup, but it did not support smart contract functionality. Matter Labs ceased development of Lite in March 2023 after launching zkEVM ZKsync Era, which supports arbitrary smart contracts. The team stated that this deprecation will not affect Era or other chains built on the ZK Stack framework. A read-only API will be retained for at least one year after the shutdown to support data access. Users are advised to withdraw their assets before May 4th; any unwithdrawn funds can still be claimed afterward. According to L2BEAT data, approximately $33.9 million in assets remain on ZKsync Lite via canonical bridging, including approximately $24.9 million in stablecoins, approximately $8.4 million in ETH and derivatives, approximately $313,000 in BTC and derivatives, and approximately $231,000 in other assets.