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Aligned Engineering Updates - June 16th - 20th, 2025

Aligned Layer

23 Jun 2025 — 1 min read

Most of the work this week has been on continuing with the experiments of building games and applications on top of Aligned.

We are developing 2 categories of apps. Simpler ones that can be run on the browser, and more complex ones that need to be run locally.

For browser based one, we are working on integrating Circom to generate proofs client-side smoothly.

For the local ones, we have a first version of an ASCII art arcade game that can be proven with a RiscV prover.

Open PRs

ci: aggregation mode

https://github.com/yetanotherco/aligned_layer/pull/1982

It adds proof aggregation steps to send-proofs-docker workflow.

docs: improve docs folder

https://github.com/yetanotherco/aligned_layer/pull/1988

The changes done to the documentation on this PR are the following:

Changed the URL used in the aligned installation script on the try aligned section.
Added some additional references to the FAQ section.
Added some parameters to the Service Manager methods in the docs, and also added a brief description for each one.
Fixed a typo on an aligned local setup command.

fix: update explorer URL printed after proof submission

https://github.com/yetanotherco/aligned_layer/pull/1989

This PR updates the explorer URL printed after a proof submission. Also left a comment explaining that the default URL used is the one for mainnet, and in case the explorer's URL changes for another network, it should change here too.

docs: improve ethereum package steps

https://github.com/yetanotherco/aligned_layer/pull/1990

PR in draft

feat: integrate circom verifier

https://github.com/yetanotherco/aligned_layer/pull/1987

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