Aligned Monthly Recap - September '2025

The past month has been busy but rewarding! Here's a recap of our highlights:

► ZK Arcade Ticket NFT Announcement.
► Alignment Sessions.
► A new partnership.
► Events. Lots of them.
► Blog posts.

► The ZK Arcade Ticket NFT is your access pass for ZK Arcade

It grants exclusive early access to ZK Arcade, a platform built on Aligned using zero-knowledge tech to prove and verify game scores. We're launching with just 700 early access NFTs which we're distributing via raffles and contests with our partners.

► Alignment Sessions

Every week on X, our team provides live updates on the project. Join us to stay informed on the latest news, see what's coming up, and get your questions addressed.

• Session 29
• Session 30
• Session 31

► Partnerships

We announced our strategic partnership with 4Mica, a new financial infrastructure that enables sub-second value exchange across any blockchain.

Want to learn more about 4Mica?

Check out the recording of the last Aligned Guests stream where Boris hosted 4Mica co-founder Akash Madhusudan to hear what they're building and how it can improve Aligned.

► Events

• Our team had a packed schedule at EDCON in Osaka and KBW in Seoul this month.

Here's the recap of everything we got up to at KBW 2025:

• Our co-founder and Head of Research Diego Kingston gave a talk at Edcon discussing the future of zkVMs and post-quantum signatures in Ethereum and Multilinear vs univariate STARKs.

► Blog posts

We're deep in the weeds of ZK infra. It's a complex and emerging space, which our co-founder and CTO Mauro Toscano dives in to in his blog post on Exploring the Engineering Trade-offs Between ZK Circuits and zkVMs.

Read it here:

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