Odaily Planet Daily News: zkSync founder Alex Gluchowski responded to the "trademark" dispute on X: "Trademarks exist to protect users, not companies. All trademarks we have registered, including those related to ZK, are for defensive reasons to prevent some malicious actors from misleading their customers and confusing their products and services with those provided by Matter Labs. Unfortunately, this has happened in the past." Alex also revealed that Matter Labs had previously contacted the Ethereum Foundation's legal team and proposed to work together to create a legal framework to enable "ZK" and similar important technical terms to be used in the public domain. Matter Labs calls on more people to join this collaboration, especially those who have applied for STARK-related trademarks. Earlier news, Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal and Brendan Farmer, StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, Polyhedra Network co-founder and zkBridge inventor Tiancheng Xie, and Turing Award winner and ZK-proofs co-inventor Shafi Goldwasser and other industry leaders have signed an open letter calling on Matter Labs to withdraw its trademark application, calling it an "act of oppression."