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.
The Alignment begins. Today we start by thanking the core engineers, developers and researchers of Ethereum and Zero Knowledge Proofs.
— Aligned Foundation (@AlignedFndn) December 7, 2024
If this is you, check your eligibility for a future claim. Take the first step towards decentralization and read more below: pic.twitter.com/w3wCoN2pMD
🔹 Wave 2.
This one is for our community.
It's our way of thanking community members who have supported Aligned from the very beginning.
Message from @AlignedFndn
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) December 12, 2024
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The Alignment Begins: Second Wave of Alignment
Today we begin thanking some of our first community members and supporters with the second wave of alignment eligibility.
Are you an OG?
Connect with your discord account… pic.twitter.com/wWPOBnueLb
🔹 Wave 3.
This wave of Alignment is for those who participated in our Galxe quests.
Are you one of the 42357 users?
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) December 14, 2024
If you haven’t checked your third wave eligibility yet, take a look at the link below. pic.twitter.com/bdp6XQwI5I
🔹 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:
- Protocol Guild: 1.5%.
- L2BEAT: 0.2%.
- ZachXBT: 0.2%.
The fourth wave of Alignment is here! The @AlignedFndn has decided to allocate $ALIGN to the following:
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) December 16, 2024
- @ProtocolGuild 1.5%
- @l2beat 0.2%
- @zachxbt 0.2%
🔹 Zero Knowledge Podcast to Fourth Wave.
We announced the inclusion of the Zero Knowledge Podcast in the Fourth Wave of Alignment by allocating 0.2%.
Message from the @AlignedFndn
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) December 23, 2024
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The Aligned Foundation is excited to announce the inclusion of the @zeroknowledgefm in the Fourth Wave of Alignment by allocating 0.2% of the $ALIGN supply.
The Zero Knowledge Podcast became one of the most…
🔹Wave 5.
Rewarding the most loyal addresses across different ecosystems.
The Aligned Foundation announced that if you owned any tokens from Starknet, Mina, ZKsync, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, or EigenLayer at their lowest price, you could have been eligible.
This rewards the most loyal addresses.
Message from the Aligned Foundation
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) December 17, 2024
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The Aligned Genesis Drop Registration
In total the Aligned Foundation is open to give a tsunami of $ALIGN tokens to almost a 1M addresses.
Today we selected 891,322 addresses that held tokens from… pic.twitter.com/NJL0ue5F0y
✅ 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.
The @AlignedFndn presents $ALIGN, which will be used to accelerate Aligned’s roadmap and support its vision. This thread will introduce $ALIGN utility and tokenomics, with more information in the blog post below. pic.twitter.com/QrlZMVWSQY
— Aligned Foundation (@AlignedFndn) December 11, 2024
🔹 A new blog post with our partners 3MI Labs 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.
In our last blog with @3miLabs, we explored the basics of cryptographic hash functions (CHFs) and their role in securing data.
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) December 26, 2024
Now, we’re diving into hashing modes: Merkle-Damgård, Sponge, and Merkle Tree. Each offers unique strengths for blockchains, messaging, and more. pic.twitter.com/cCy1qnRsc2
✅ Summary of the security audits.
We were audited by the following teams:
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.
We have uploaded all the security audits for our proof verification layer to our GitHub repo. You can check all the findings by the four auditing teams:
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) December 19, 2024
- @Consensys
- @FuzzingLabs
- @LeastAuthority
- @trailofbits
✅ 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.
Show off your creativity with our first meme contest ‼️
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) December 12, 2024
Create memes focused on Aligned and $ALIGN and submit them to the memes channel in our discord.
🥇 1st place: $1000
🥈 2nd place: $500
🥉 Up to 10 runner-up prizes: $100 each
We'll use community feedback during judging,… pic.twitter.com/zJeFmaxoUN
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