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✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from September 25th to October 1st, 2025. Ethereum's Holesky testnet has been successfully upgraded to Fusaka This upgrade went live on Holesky
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ZK Arcade is a new platform built on Aligned that lets player prove their results in games and verify them onchain using Aligned's Proof Verification Layer.
Monthly recaps
The past month has been busy but rewarding! Here's a recap of our highlights: ► ZK Arcade Ticket NFT Announcement. ► Alignment Sessions. ► A new partnership. ► Events. Lots of them. ► Blog posts. ► The ZK Arcade Ticket NFT is your access pass for ZK Arcade It grants exclusive early access to
ZK Arcade is a new platform built on Aligned that lets player prove their results in games and verify them onchain using Aligned's Proof Verification Layer.
Announcing a new strategic partnership between Aligned and 4Mica
Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs are at the heart of Ethereum’s future. It’s the technology chosen to scale the EVM by 1000x without sacrificing decentralization, and is also being used to improve the efficiency and security of Ethereum’s consensus layer (detailed in the lean roadmap). 1 gigagas/sec (10K
We’re excited to announce our strategic partnership with Sovra, equipping them with the infrastructure needed to power their Digital Identity Stack for governments, institutions, and citizens. What Is Sovra? Sovra enables institutions and individuals to issue, verify, and use digital identity credentials with sovereignty and privacy. Sovra’s technology
Aligned is in the business of selling access to Ethereum. Our product stack began with the Proof Verification Layer (live on mainnet since November) which was followed by the Proof Aggregation Service (currently on testnet). Together, this two-part ZK Verification Layer allows ZK proofs to be verified on Ethereum without
Ethereum is becoming the backbone of a new global financial system—open, programmable, and secured by cryptography instead of institutions. For the past year, our focus has been on accelerating Ethereum’s roadmap by making Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proof verification cheaper, faster, and more scalable. By building essential infrastructure—like our
One-click solution for wallets, rollups, interoperability and ZK services
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from September 18th-24th, 2025. The Fusaka upgrade has been tentatively targeted for Ethereum's mainnet activation on December 3, 2025 Ethereum core developers
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from September 11th-17th, 2025. The Ethereum Foundation is launching the dAI Team to make Ethereum the go-to platform for AI and the machine economy.
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from September 4th-10th, 2025. StarkWare has set a record proving the entire Bitcoin block header chain in just 6.5 hours for only $13.
Mauro Toscano, Aligned co-founder and CTO, explores the engineering tradeoffs between ZK circuits and zkVMs and how to think about designing and building these systems
Announcing a new strategic partnership between Aligned and 4Mica
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from August 28th to September 3rd, 2025. Pol Finance, LambdaClass, and Levenue released the Loom Finance whitepaper, a protocol that enables the tokenization of
This week focused on network deployments and enhanced gaming experiences. We successfully deployed new networks on Sepolia and Hoodi, while delivering significant improvements to the ZK Arcade platform including a new game called Parity and better user interface elements. The Sepolia network is now being used to test the integration
The past month has been busy and exciting — check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ► Partnership Announcement. ► Alignment Sessions. ► Aligned Guests, X Space, Podcast. ► Blog posts / Articles. ► Engineering updates. ► Alignment Sessions Each week on X, our team shares live updates on engineering and product progress. Tune in
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from August 21st-27th, 2025. LambdaClass published two blog posts on the basics and optimization of the Sumcheck protocol The first one describes the fundamentals
This week brought significant improvements to both the Aligned infrastructure and the ZK Arcade gaming experience. Key focus areas included batcher performance optimizations, enhanced user interfaces, expanded ZK Arcade features, and improved cross-platform support. Summary Total PRs merged: 25 (8 from aligned_layer, 17 from zk_arcade) aligned_layer Repository
The last two weeks focused on improving the user experience for ZK Arcade with enhanced UI/UX features, better proof submission flows, and user guidance. The Proof Verification Layer continued to see performance optimizations and stability improvements. Below, you can find a demo of ZK Arcade, shared by RJ, that
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from August 14th-20th, 2025. A 6x speedup for Jolt, the zkVM from a16z crypto, has been achieved by fully integrating the new Twist and
