Matter Labs
Fully remote (no single HQ)Founded in 2018 and backed by a16z and Union Square Ventures, Matter Labs is a fully remote team of about 70 with eight years of production zero-knowledge infrastructure experience, now focused on private institutional settlement via its Prividium product.
Scale-up
L1 / L2 Protocol
Founded 2018
$200M Series C (2022)
Products & Services
- zkSync Era — EVM-compatible ZK rollup processing Ethereum transactions at reduced cost and higher throughput
- Boojum Prover — Matter Labs' custom ZK proof system (PLONK-based)
- zkPorter — Off-chain data availability solution (in development)
- ZK Stack — Framework for teams to build their own ZK-powered Layer 2s
Tech stack
Custom ZK proving system (zkEVM, Boojum prover), Rust (primary language for prover and node implementation), GCP and AWS for proving infrastructure, Solidity (smart contracts on zkSync Era), ZK Rollup Security Engineering
Markets
zkSync Era competes with Polygon zkEVM, StarkNet, Scroll, and Linea in the ZK rollup market. The company differentiates on EVM compatibility and native account abstraction.
Perks
Remote-first
Equity / Tokens
Active Jobs at Matter Labs :
Blockchain, Metaverse, Cityverse, Ethereum, L2, Crypto, Bitcoin, Stable Coins, Gaming, NFT, Solidity, UX, Design, Cardano, Kusama, Tezos, Solana, Polkadot, Polygon, Token, Tokenization, DAO, DeFi, AI, Wallet, AR