Accelerating Ethereum's roadmap by making ZK proof verification fast, cheap, and scalable.
Engineering updates
This week brought significant improvements to both the Aligned infrastructure and the ZK Arcade gaming experience. Key focus areas included batcher performance optimizations, enhanced user interfaces, expanded ZK Arcade features, and improved cross-platform support. Summary Total PRs merged: 25 (8 from aligned_layer, 17 from zk_arcade) aligned_layer Repository
Engineering updates
The last two weeks focused on improving the user experience for ZK Arcade with enhanced UI/UX features, better proof submission flows, and user guidance. The Proof Verification Layer continued to see performance optimizations and stability improvements. Below, you can find a demo of ZK Arcade, shared by RJ, that
ZK news
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from August 14th-20th, 2025. A 6x speedup for Jolt, the zkVM from a16z crypto, has been achieved by fully integrating the new Twist and
Industry
San Francisco might have been cold, but Google’s ZK & AI Summit was on fire. Researchers, engineers, and industry leaders came together to push zero-knowledge, identity, and AI closer to the core of tomorrow’s secure and scalable systems. Engineers and researchers dominated the summit, with fewer VCs, marking
ZK news
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from August 7th-13th, 2025. Giacomo Fenzi and Yuwen Zhang shared new research on compressing hash-based SNARKs. A new paper from Giacomo Fenzi and Yuwen
ZK news
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from July 31st to August 6th, 2025. The Succinct Prover Network is now live on mainnet. This marketplace is a protocol on Ethereum that
Aligned Core
Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs are at the heart of Ethereum’s future. It’s the technology chosen to scale the EVM by 1000x without sacrificing decentralization, and is also being used to improve the efficiency and security of Ethereum’s consensus layer (detailed in the lean roadmap). 1 gigagas/sec (10K
Engineering updates
Last week we finished a complete version of the ZK Arcade and ran a playtest with external users. This feedback is now being used to improve the user experience. The Proof Verification Layer has also been improved with some minor upgrades related to developer experience and reliability. See below for
Monthly recaps
The past month has been busy and exciting — check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ► Partnership Announcement. ► Alignment Sessions. ► Aligned Guests, X Space, Podcast. ► Blog posts / Articles. ► Engineering updates. ► Partnership Announcement We announced our partnership with Sovra providing the infrastructure to support their Digital Identity Stack for
ZK news
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from July 24th to 30th, 2025. Ethereum, The World Computer, celebrates 10 years Ethereum has been online for 10 years with zero downtime. This
Aligned Core
We’re excited to announce our strategic partnership with Sovra, equipping them with the infrastructure needed to power their Digital Identity Stack for governments, institutions, and citizens. What Is Sovra? Sovra enables institutions and individuals to issue, verify, and use digital identity credentials with sovereignty and privacy. Sovra’s technology
Industry
The era of AI needs Ethereum and ZKAligned is a vertically integrated stack for building on a verifiable internet. Whether it’s financial infrastructure or AI systems, we ship one‑click rails for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero‑knowledge (ZK) services. The thesis? As AI picks up more of our