Announcing the Aligned EigenLayer Testnet
Welcome to the Aligned EigenLayer testnet.
This launch represents a huge step forward for our project and for the adoption of zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. We invite you to participate in our decentralised network, and join us in working towards our goal of accelerating the Ethereum roadmap.
By participating in this testnet, users will be able to directly contribute towards the development of Aligned, Ethereum, and ZK cryptography. This is also an opportunity to gain direct experience in developing verifiable applications and to learn about our novel approach for ZK proof verification.
To date, we have successfully verified and settled more than 19 million proofs on the Ethereum Holesky testnet, and can currently verify 1000 proofs per second.
The goal of this testnet is to learn from our community and demonstrate how quickly we can perform verification on Ethereum, at a significantly lower cost than was previously possible. We aim to offer a seamless developer experience and we look forward to your feedback. We have a dedicated channel for testnet discussion in our Discord.
Aligned is a decentralized ZK proof verification layer. We offer significant cost reductions for verification and are able to verify any proof onchain for less than 10% of the usual cost. As an EigenLayer Actively Validated Service (AVS), Aligned borrows economic security from Ethereum through restaking to ensure that proofs are correctly verified and settled on Ethereum.
Currently, proof verification is a bottleneck in the proof supply chain. Aligned is eliminating this bottleneck in order to unlock new services and applications. As a new layer of the modular stack, Aligned unlocks new ways to design decentralized systems that can meet novel use cases.
Our dedicated verification layer allows developers to verify proofs faster and cheaper than ever before. With Aligned, you can efficiently post your verified proofs to Ethereum (or in the future, to an alternative DA layer). Aligned has been open-source from day one. We’re excited to invite developers and users to experiment with our testnet by submitting proofs for verification. We support Halo2 and Groth16 proofs, and are the first ZK verification layer to support SP1 proof verification for Ethereum. When it comes to ZK, Aligned has no bias. We are focused on the future needs of our ecosystem. We will verify any proof and will support new proving systems as they are developed. This gives huge flexibility to developers; who can rely on Aligned regardless of their requirements or preferred proof system, ultimately giving them more ways to build new applications and blockchains. Our veteran team comes from LambdaClass, a venture studio with years of experience building ZK infrastructure for top projects in the ecosystem. Aligned allows developers to take full advantage of our ZK expertise, letting them focus on generating proofs for us to verify. This helps teams go to market faster - removing the need to develop customized verifiers.
ZK offers a secure and sustainable route to accelerating Ethereum. We believe that ZK is the future of decentralized applications, and that every Ethereum developer will benefit from learning about zero-knowledge technology.
For technical details on our testnet, you can read our blog post here. If you are interested in partnering with Aligned, you can contact us here.
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