🎙️ BCD2026 Session Feature: zkSync Era Reality Check – Why We Chose Sidechains to Scale Our Private EVM

When scaling an EVM environment under hard enterprise constraints – on-prem infrastructure, strict privacy, and zero operational control compromises – Zero-Knowledge solutions seem like the obvious choice. But what happens when you benchmark theory against production data?

At Blockchain Community Day 2026, Andrei Shulaev (Solution Architect at EPAM Systems) will share a raw engineering case study on deploying zkSync Era in a private data center and benchmarking it end-to-end against a sidechain alternative.

Session highlights:
▪️ The Bare-Metal Benchmarks – comparing throughput, latency, finality, and proving overhead between a private ZK-rollup and a sidechain.
▪️ The Hidden Infrastructure Bill – analyzing the real-world hardware footprint and operational overhead required to run ZK infrastructure on-prem.
▪️ The Final Verdict – a walk through the data that led to a sidechain outperforming ZK in this architecture, and the trade-offs behind the final decision.

📅 June 8–12, 2026 | 🌍 Online

🔗 Register for free: https://luma.com/wupxaqku