A Public Dataset For the ZKsync Rollup

TL;DR

This paper introduces a publicly available dataset derived from one year of ZKsync Era blockchain activity, aimed at facilitating research in Layer-2 solutions despite data accessibility challenges.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive, freely accessible dataset for ZKsync Layer-2 blockchain activity, enabling new research opportunities.

Findings

Dataset covers one year of ZKsync activity

Examples demonstrate potential research analyses

Facilitates data-driven blockchain research

Abstract

Despite blockchain data being publicly available, practical challenges and high costs often hinder its effective use by researchers, thus limiting data-driven research and exploration in the blockchain space. This is especially true when it comes to Layer-2 (L2) ecosystems, and ZKsync, in particular. To address these issues, we have curated a dataset from 1 year of activity extracted from a ZKsync Era archive node and made it freely available to external parties. We provide details on this dataset and how it was created, showcase a few example analyses that can be performed with it, and discuss some future research directions.