According to Foresight News, ZKX, a decentralized derivatives trading protocol based on Starknet, announced the release of the ZKX public testnet. In the second phase of the testnet, users can participate in 40 new quests, obtain OG characters (rewarded in ZKX tokens in the future) and Yakuza NFTs.

Foresight News previously reported that in April 2022, ZKX received funding from StarkWare, the Ethereum Layer2 expansion development team. The grant will be used to continue developing ZKX's derivatives and DAO open source protocols on StarkNet. In July 2022, ZKX completed a $4.5 million seed round of financing, with investors including StarkWare, Alameda Research, Huobi, HashKey, Gate.io, Amber Group, Crypto.com, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal and DragonFly Capital general partner Ashwin Ramachandran.