Glassnode expands latency monitoring to Ink, OP Mainnet, and ZKsync Era
ZKsync (ZK)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cryptobriefing.com reports that Glassnode has quietly expanded its real-time latency tool to cover three additional Ethereum Layer 2 networks: Ink, OP Mainnet, and ZKsync Era. The analytics firm’s monitor now tracks transaction submission round-trip times to the sequencer endpoints on these specific chains. Unlike Ethereum’s base layer, these networks use single sequencers and lack public mempools, meaning transactions must reach the sequencer quickly to be included in a block.
This structure creates a co-location challenge for high-frequency traders and market makers who must compete on infrastructure speed. To address this, Glassnode deploys global probes across Fly.io and AWS in Asia, Europe, and the Americas to measure these round-trip times. The tool previously covered centralized exchange APIs, Base, Arbitrum One, and Solana validators.
Ink, incubated by Kraken and built on the OP Stack, launched its mainnet in December 2024 and processes over 1 million transactions within its first 24 hours. It transitioned to Optimism’s fully managed OP Enterprise service in June 2026 to reduce operational overhead. OP Mainnet remains one of the most established networks, running on 2-second block intervals. ZKsync Era offers a contrasting ZK-rollup architecture using zero-knowledge proofs, providing traders with comparative data across both major rollup types.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for ZK, measured when this story was written up on 1 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
ZKsync (ZK) is currently trading at $0.008810 with a 24-hour spot volume of $7,654,354. The 1-hour buy ratio stands at 41.8%, while the 4-hour ratio is 45.8%, both sitting below the 24-hour ratio of 49.6%. This indicates that buying pressure is fading in the short term relative to the daily average. The volume delta is negative across all timeframes, with -$22,484 in the last hour and -$73,407 over the last four hours. The cumulative volume delta (CVD) for the 24-hour close is -$116,361, signaling net selling pressure. Net buying occurred in only 11 of the last 24 hours, with 69,525 trades recorded in that period.
The latest daily buy ratio of 49.6% sits at the 52nd percentile of the last 323 days, against a median of 49.4% - ordinary for this coin.
Twenty-four hours later
What ZK did over the 22 hours after the story broke. The market moves for its own reasons; this is what happened, not what the story caused.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for ZK, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the 7-day average buy ratio was 49.2%, making the current 24-hour ratio of 49.6% slightly higher by 0.3 percentage points. However, the 24-hour volume of $7,654,354 is 2.70 times the weekly average volume, indicating an unusually active trading day. This volume spike contrasts with the 8-day price change of -0.9% and a total volume delta of +$115,827 over the week. While buying pressure has been net positive over the longer timeframe, the immediate flow shows a shift toward selling. This day represents a significant deviation in volume compared to the weekly norm.