Aligned Monthly Recap - August '24

This month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned. 🎉

Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights!

✅ New partnerships.

✅ Spaces, podcast, community call.

✅ Events.

✅ Educational videos.

✅ Technical material.

Enjoy!

✅ Let’s start with our new Partnerships.

Aligned Partnerships Recap: 023 -> Orbiter Finance.

Vizing is an omni interoperability environment built on advanced ZK technology, powered by Orbiter Finance.

Excited to provide it with fast and efficient proof verification.

Aligned Partnerships Recap: 024 -> Paima Studios.

We’re thrilled to be working with Paima Studios.

Fast and cheap proof verification of game state, on EVM, by Aligned.

Aligned Partnerships Recap: 025 -> Phala Network.

We are delighted to partner with Phala Network to ensure their users have access to the cheapest and fastest TEE attestation verifications possible.

Aligned expanding its ability as an integrity layer: from ZK to TEE.

Aligned Partnerships Recap: 026 -> Versatus.

Versatus is building the decentralized cloud computing platform of the future, to ensure secure deployment of dApps.

We’re working together to give devs the best tools to create the future of internet and crypto.

✅ Let’s continue with the Spaces and Podcasts offered this month.

🔹 Space with NodeKit and Union.

It was an amazing X Space with our partners, where we discussed the interoperability problem in crypto and how ZK can help solve it.

🔹 Space with Versatus and Opacity Network.

We hosted a fantastic Space today about The Stack for a Decentralized Future.

It was a really interesting conversation that we highly recommend listening to!

🔹 Space with Phala Network and Ternoa.

Listen to it and deep dive into real-world use cases of TEEs.

Spoiler: The special guest was Diego Kingston. 😉

🔹 Our co-founder and Head of Research Diego Kingston was on The Rollup!

It presents a fascinating discussion about ZKVMs and Proof Verification.

Watch the stream below to learn more about these exciting topics.

🔹 We’re pleased that over 1000 users on Discord joined us in our first Community Call! 🎉

It was a huge success!

Thank you to everyone who joined. We're happy to have connected with so many of you and answered your questions.

✅ Let’s review the highlights of the events.

🔹 As part of our activities at Crecimiento, our co-founder and Head of Research Diego Kingston gave a talk about 'Intro and current state of ZK with Aligned'.

🔹 ZK Hack Montreal was incredible!

The event took place from August 9th to 11th.

We are very happy to have met a lot of Aligned attendees in Montreal.

ZK is becoming mainstream. 👀

✅ Clips taken from podcasts.

🔹 How many proofs we can verify?

In this clip, our co-founder Mauro Toscano responds.

Aligned is extending the capabilities of Ethereum. ✨

🔹 What problems does Aligned solve?

Ethereum wasn’t designed for verification of ZK proofs.

We are building this new infrastructure to solve this problem, allowing us to verify a lot of proofs in a very efficient way, and unlocking a wide range of use cases.

🔹 How Aligned is redefining proof verification?

No blocks, no chain.

Our co-founders Mauro Toscano and Roberto Catalán explained to us why Aligned doesn’t need to have blocks to verify proofs.

✅ Let’s explore some of the technical content.

🔹 What does a ZK Verification Layer do?

• This post will help you better understand the mission of Aligned.
  
• And why a ZK verification layer is needed.

🔹 The guide you’ve been waiting for.

How to integrate Aligned into your application.

Follow these simple three steps to achieve it:

• Generate your ZK Proof.
• Write your smart contract.
• And submit and verify the proof to Aligned.

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