Aligned Monthly Recap - August '2025

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 to stay up to date on the latest news, discover what’s coming next, and get your questions answered.

• Session 25
• Session 26
• Session 27
• Session 28

► Aligned Guests

Boris hosted insightful conversations in our Aligned Guests series, where Diego Kingston delved into the history of ZK.

• Part 1
• Part 2

All the recordings are available on our YouTube playlist.

► Articles

• Aligned’s Proof Verification Layer and Proof Aggregation Service: two options for ZK on Ethereum.

The article offers a comparison between these two products, highlighting tradeoffs, use cases, throughput, costs, and more.

• Google's 2025 ZK & AI Summit.

This article highlights key takeaways from Google’s AI & ZK Summit in San Francisco, where two of our co-founders — Diego Kingston (Head of Research) and Mauro Toscano (Head of Engineering) — were in attendance.

• What does Sovra mean by a Digital Identity Stack and why does the world need one now?

This article provides an overview of Sovra’s Digital Identity Stack, a privacy-first infrastructure using zero-knowledge proofs to make identity sovereign, verifiable, and programmable.

► Engineering updates

To keep the community informed, we’ve been sharing these engineering updates to highlight the progress of the project.

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