Svmuu News: ZKsync has announced that it will officially deprecate ZKsync Lite on May 4, at which point block production will cease and the network’s final state will be permanently frozen.ZKsync Lite launched in June 2020 as ZKsync 1.0 and was regarded as the first zero-knowledge proof rollup on the Ethereum, though it did not support smart contract functionality.Matter Labs ceased development of Lite in March 2023 following the launch of zkEVM ZKsync Era, which supports arbitrary smart contracts.The team stated that this deprecation will not affect Era or other chains built on the ZK Stack framework. After the shutdown, a read-only API will remain available for at least one year to support data access. Users are advised to withdraw their assets by May 4; any funds not withdrawn can still be claimed afterward.According to L2BEAT data, approximately $33.9 million in assets currently remain on ZKsync Lite via standard bridges, including approximately $24.9 million in stablecoins, $8.4 million in ETH and derivatives, $313,000 in BTC and derivatives,and approximately $231,000 in other assets.