Aligned Monthly Recap - November '24

This month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned!

Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights!

✅ A very special announcement!

✅ Hackathon Results.

✅ Events.

✅ Collaboration.

✅ Community calls.

✅ Technical content.

Enjoy!

✅ Aligned's ZK Verification Layer — Mainnet Beta — is now LIVE on Ethereum. 🎉

All these months of work have allowed us to achieve this milestone. Read the full announcement for supported verifiers, estimated verification cost savings, and more.

We are absolutely thrilled. It's incredible to think that all this has been built from scratch to mainnet in less than a year.

This is just the beginning.

Send proofs! 🚀

✅ Aligned Builders Hackathon Results have been announced! 💻

We are pleased to announce that we have received 17 submissions showcasing the potential of ZK technology, with fast and cost-efficient verification using Aligned’s Fast Mode.

For a comprehensive overview of each project, please refer to the linked tweet, which provides their unique features and groundbreaking applications.

Thanks to everyone who participated, and congratulations to the winners!

✅ Let’s continue with the events:

🔹 Aligned Devcon Agenda.

Our agenda was packed with engaging sessions, including the participation of our co-founders:

> Federico Carrone on the panel “ZK x Restaking” at Lagrange’ Proof Summit.

> Diego Kingston on the panel “Client-side ZK: The Obvious Next Step?” at Ingonyama’s ZK Accelerate.

> Diego Kingston's Devcon talk on hash-based proof systems.

> And more!

🔹 Aligned Devcon Recap!

No doubt about it, this must have been the best Devcon so far.

We are delighted to witness the energy around the activities and the connection with the community, which made it an incredible experience.

In the linked tweet you can see a recap of our activities.

🔹 ICYMI: Roberto Catalan and Francisco Strambini joined Ingonyama for a chat on Snark Chocolate.

The conversation features:

> Our approach to mechanism design and governance.

> Reducing fees 90% with batched verification + EigenLayer.

> The synergy between Aligned & LambdaClass and more.

Listen to it here 👇

✅ Let’s review some of the technical content.

🔹 An amazing blog post about hash functions was posted by our partners 3MI Labs and Diego Kingston. ⚡

In it, you will learn what its basic properties are, what the differences between regular and cryptographic hash functions are, their applications, and more.

It serves as a valuable resource to understand different proof systems.

✅ Let’s explore our community calls.

In the past month, we were delighted to host four engaging community calls with many Alignoors.

🔹 First Community Call.

🔹 Second Community Call.

It was amazing to connect with the community and answer many of their questions.

🔹 Third Community Call.

This one hosted by Boris from our ecosystem team.

🔹 Forth Community Call.

The final one hosted by Diego Kingston, Boris, and  Geeny.

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