Aligned Engineering Updates: November 3rd to 7th, 2025
This week focused on fixing issues presented by users of ZK Arcade, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency across the platform.
We also introduced improvements to our internal systems adding enhanced summaries of operational costs and earnings.
We added support for Mina verifiers in Aligned staging, supporting the ongoing work by Nori for deployment of the Mina to Ethereum bridge which uses our Proof Verification Layer.
For ZK Arcade, we implemented better time estimations based on gas prices, enhanced metrics collection with game-specific claims data, and improved proof validation security.
The week also included several platform stability fixes and monitoring improvements.
Summary
Total PRs merged: 15 (3 from aligned_layer, 12 from zk_arcade)
aligned_layer Repository
- feat(task sender): send proofs if there are enqueued proofs in the batcher (#2166)
- feat: improve reports to be a daily summary (#2164)
- feat: mina verifiers (#2163)
zk_arcade Repository
- feat(web): time to verify estimations based on gas price (#535)
- fix(metrics): increment minted nfts only once (#532)
- feat(metrics): show amount of claims per game (#530)
- fix: beast sepolia installer (#527)
- fix: remove risc0 from beast (#525)
- chore: add build for macos x86 (#523)
- fix(web): improve event polling (#521)
- feat(web): store game config in db and fetch levels from it (#520)
- feat: allow user to invalidate proofs in claim (#519)
- chore(web): restore the games section on navigation bar (#518)
- feat(metrics): update grafana dashboard (#516)
- fix(web): don't allow proofs with pub input addr not matching session one (#515)
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