Layer 2: how is Zircuit different? (With Jan Gorzny)

19.06.2024
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To stand out from the competition, Zircuit offers a security system that detects and blocks fraudulent transactions. We interviewed one of the co-founders.

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Ethereum's L2 are one of the hot topics of the moment. After analysing ZkSync and Arbitrum (as part of our Season on L2s), we bring you an exclusive interview with one of Zircuit's co-founders, Jan Gorzny.

Launched just over six months ago (November 2023) on Ethereum, Layer 2 Zircuit has already managed to attract nearly $3.4 billion to its protocol. A total locked-in value (TVL) largely due to the fact that users are incentivised to deposit their liquid re-staking tokens within the protocol to receive points and potentially a native token when they next airdrop.

The designers' ambition is to offer a new way of thinking about security within layers 2 thanks to an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can detect fraudulent transactions.

In the long term, the aim is to be able to attract more institutions "by pushing security and therefore trust in the infrastructure to an even higher level", explains Jan Gorzny.

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Louis Tellier

Louis Tellier is Lead Institutional Research at Blockstories, where he focuses on developing the institutional offering for digital assets. He joined Blockstories in April 2025. Blockstories was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Berlin, with presence in France and Switzerland.

Prior to joining Blockstories, Tellier worked as a crypto journalist at The Big Whale from August 2023 to January 2025, covering crypto and blockchain topics. Before that, he was a journalist at L'AGEFI from May 2022 to July 2023, specialising in cryptocurrencies. Earlier in his career, he worked as a web and video journalist at BFM Business and as a video journalist at Le Figaro. He also taught journalism at IICP in Paris for three and a half years, with a focus on web video journalism. Tellier is a graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble and the University of Lille.

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