diff --git a/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md b/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md
index 783edf308bd..79e3fa28d8a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ For upgrade instructions, please check the [migration guide](MIGRATIONS.released
 - The context menu entry "Focus in Segment List" expands all necessary segment groups in the segments tab to show the highlighted segment. [#7950](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/pull/7950)
 - In the proofreading mode, you can enable/disable that only the active segment and the hovered segment are rendered. [#7654](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/pull/7654)
 - Upgraded s3 client for improved performance when loading remote datasets. [#7936](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/pull/7936)
+- Added support for reading zstd-compressed zarr2 datasets [#7964](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/pull/7964)
 
 ### Changed
 - The warning about a mismatch between the scale of a pre-computed mesh and the dataset scale's factor now also considers all supported mags of the active segmentation layer. This reduces the false posive rate regarding this warning. [#7921](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/pull/7921/)
diff --git a/webknossos-datastore/app/com/scalableminds/webknossos/datastore/datareaders/zarr/ZarrCompressorFactory.scala b/webknossos-datastore/app/com/scalableminds/webknossos/datastore/datareaders/zarr/ZarrCompressorFactory.scala
index a9d2a5d9a9b..0cde8f951e6 100644
--- a/webknossos-datastore/app/com/scalableminds/webknossos/datastore/datareaders/zarr/ZarrCompressorFactory.scala
+++ b/webknossos-datastore/app/com/scalableminds/webknossos/datastore/datareaders/zarr/ZarrCompressorFactory.scala
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ import com.scalableminds.webknossos.datastore.datareaders.{
   BloscCompressor,
   CompressionSetting,
   Compressor,
+  IntCompressionSetting,
   NullCompressor,
   StringCompressionSetting,
-  ZlibCompressor
+  ZlibCompressor,
+  ZstdCompressor
 }
 
 object ZarrCompressorFactory {
@@ -23,6 +25,13 @@ object ZarrCompressorFactory {
       case "null"  => nullCompressor
       case "zlib"  => new ZlibCompressor(properties)
       case "blosc" => new BloscCompressor(properties)
-      case _       => throw new IllegalArgumentException("Compressor id:'" + id + "' not supported.")
+      case "zstd" => {
+        val level = properties.get("level") match {
+          case Some(IntCompressionSetting(l)) => l
+          case _                              => throw new IllegalArgumentException("Zstd level must be int")
+        }
+        new ZstdCompressor(level, checksum = false)
+      }
+      case _ => throw new IllegalArgumentException("Compressor id:'" + id + "' not supported.")
     }
 }