PART A QUALITATIVE REPORT: ZK – “Airdrop Disasters Speeding up Fate”
This qualitative report will analyze the lifetime of down-only post-launch price action of ZK (ZKsync) – an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain that describes itself as “The Elastic Network”.
Highlighted Timeframe
Time frame of this ZK price analysis: 6/17/2024 - 4/14/2025 Data aggregators and sources used: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zksync/, https://cryptorank.io/price/zksync, https://defillama.com/chain/zksync-era, https://defillama.com/chains
Since the aim of this qualitative report is to analyze the drivers of ZK’s bearish price action that immediately followed the token launch, we will be focusing on the time between its launch day (6/17/2024) and its all time low (4/14/2025). Throughout this time, ZK decreased -76.41% from $0.1679 to $0.0396 (sourced from https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zksync/). Below is a screenshot of the highlighted timeframe of ZK price action on the 1W chart that we will be analyzing in this q