Aligned Monthly Recap - December '24

The last month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned!

Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights!

✅ Airdrop announcements.

✅ Technical Content.

✅ Audits.

✅ Meme contest.

Enjoy!

✅ Let's start with the Genesis Drop announcements.

🔹 Wave 1.

This was dedicated to developers, engineers, and researchers who have contributed to ZK, Ethereum, and crypto.

All the information in the linked post.

🔹 Wave 2.

This one is for our community.

It's our way of thanking community members who have supported Aligned from the very beginning.

🔹 Wave 3.

This wave of Alignment is for those who participated in our Galxe quests.

🔹 Wave 4.

This initiative aims to support people and projects that actively contribute to the development of Ethereum and raise industry standards through their work.

The @AlignedFndn has decided to allocate $ALIGN from the total supply to:

- @ProtocolGuild: 1.5%.

- @l2beat: 0.2%.

- @zachxbt: 0.2%.

🔹 Zero Knowledge Podcast to Fourth Wave.

We announced the inclusion of the @zeroknowledgefm podcast in the Fourth Wave of Alignment by allocating 0.2%.

🔹Wave 5.

Rewarding the most loyal addresses across different ecosystems.

The @AlignedFndn announced that if you owned any tokens from @Starknet, @MinaProtocol, @zksync, @0xPolygon, @Scroll_ZKP, @taikoxyz, or @eigenlayer at their lowest price, you could have been eligible.

This rewards the most loyal addresses.

✅ Let’s explore some of the technical content.

🔹 Presenting $ALIGN Tokenomics and Roadmap.

There's definitely no rest for the alignment.

Check out the post to learn about supply, token distribution, utility, and more.

🔹 A new blog post with our partners @3miLabs is now available: How to construct a Hashing Mode?

We explore how hashing modes work, design strategies, their advantages, applications, and much more.

Whether you're developing cryptographic protocols or investigating hashing for your next project, mastering these modes is crucial.

✅ Summary of the security audits.

We were audited by the following teams:

- @Consensys.

- @FuzzingLabs.

- @LeastAuthority.

- @trailofbits.

Read the full announcement to see their findings and suggestions, which have helped to improve the security and reliability of Aligned.

We’ve also started a $100,000 audit competition on Cantina to further strengthen our security standards.

It’s live until January 7th. Details are available here.

✅ And finally, our meme contest.

This month, we had the pleasure of organizing the first Meme Contest with our community.

It was amazing to see the creativity of the Alignors.

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