ZKsync ZK

What ZK actually is on-chain

ZKsync is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0x66A5cFB2e9c529f14FE6364Ad1075dF3a649C0A5. That address, not the ticker ZK, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself ZK, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

Because it lives on Ethereum, ZK is held in any EVM-compatible wallet, transfers are paid for in ETH rather than in ZK itself, and secondary liquidity sits in Uniswap-style AMM pools. Two consequences follow for anyone setting alerts: you need ETH in the same wallet to move the token at all, and a quoted price taken from a pool is a pool price — it includes slippage that an order-book quote would not.

For ZK the project publishes a whitepaper, a public source repository and an active account as @zksync. Both a written specification and readable code exist, which is a materially higher bar than most assets in this size range clear. None of it is a quality judgement about the asset; it is simply what can be independently checked before the chart is worth looking at.

Where ZK sits in the market

#197 places ZKsync in the upper mid-cap band. Liquidity is already fragmented at this depth: a large share of real ZK volume can sit on two or three venues, so a quote on a secondary exchange may lag the primary market by seconds and by more than a basis point. Position size matters more than entry timing here.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 6 live ZK order books (Binance, OKX, Gate.io, HTX, Upbit, Bithumb). That is wider coverage than most assets ranked near #197 carry, so a divergence on any one of them is far more likely to be a local liquidity event than a genuine repricing. One of them is a Korean won market, so the Kimchi-premium spread between the KRW and USDT quote is visible on this page.

ZK against its all-time high

More than 95% separates ZK from its all-time high of $0.3210 (on 2024-06-17) — a 31.3x recovery. At that distance the high stops working as a reference at all; it belongs to a different supply structure, a different holder base and typically a different cycle. What carries information for ZK now is the downside, so read the range section below before this one. That high was set roughly 2 years ago, recently enough that it still anchors how most current holders frame the asset.

ZK across its historical range

The recorded range runs 22.8x, from $0.0141 to $0.3210 — wide by the standards of traditional assets, moderate for this one's class.

At -27.1% above its record low of $0.0141 (on 2026-04-04), ZK sits near the edge of its own price history. Nothing has traded beneath that level, so there is no support to reference, no volume shelf and no cost-basis cluster underneath. Because that low is itself recent, the asset is in an active downtrend rather than sitting at an old floor — each new low invalidates the previous one as a reference.

ZK supply structure

ZK is capped at 21.00 billion ZK, of which only 9.70 billion is circulating — 46.2% issued, leaving 11.30 billion still to come. At that ratio the emission schedule is a primary driver of the supply story, not a footnote: new supply arrives continuously and has to be absorbed by new demand before price can hold a level.

What kind of asset ZK is

ZKsync is a layer-2 or scaling asset, which means its economics are downstream of a base chain. Fee revenue depends on how much activity migrates to it, and the competitive set is crowded — several rollups compete for the same transactions with near-identical technical claims. Sequencer decentralisation and the fee split with the settlement layer are the structural questions.

CoinGecko files ZK under 10 categories, including Ethereum Ecosystem, Layer 2 (L2), Zero Knowledge (ZK), ZkSync Ecosystem, Consensys Portfolio. CoinGecko also records deployments on Ethereum (3,072 tracked tokens), so its on-chain liquidity and its user base move with that network.

How to set a ZKsync alert that is worth receiving

ZKsync is the ERC-20 at 0x66A5…C0A5 on Ethereum — quoted on 6 venues we stream — high dated 2024-06-17 — rank #197. On this profile the condition that carries signal is thresholds anchored to the recent range rather than to the all-time high.

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