Accelerating Ethereum's roadmap by making ZK proof verification fast, cheap, and scalable.
Monthly recaps
The last month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned! Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ✅ Educational content and blog posts. ✅ Alignment Sessions. ✅ Podcasts. ✅ Community Calls. ✅ Educational content We posted a major thread promoting educational content, focusing on advanced blockchain topics like SNARKs and the
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 February 17th to 23rd, 2025. Justin Drake and Federico Carrone discussed Ethereum's Native Rollup Roadmap on The Rollup Podcast The episode,
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 February 10th to 16th, 2025. Brevis introduces Pico: A Modular and Performant zkVM It outperforms RISC0, SP1, and OpenVM by 70%–150% on
Hackathons
How can we be sure that a vector database returns the truly best match? This hackathon project by Erhan uses verifiable computation and zero-knowledge proofs to mathematically guarantee the accuracy of nearest neighbor searches, enabling more transparent and trustworthy AI-powered applications. The Semantic Revolution Semantic generally refers to the meaning
Hackathons
Welcome to the second post in our series showcasing the winners of the inaugural Aligned Builders Hackathon. Each article will highlight innovative use cases for ZK technology enabled by Aligned's Proof Verification Layer. You can see the first post, which discusses ZK use cases in gaming, here. Aligned
2024’ün Aralık ayında, 9 aylık geliştirme sürecinin ardından Aligned'ın ZK doğrulama katmanının artık Ethereum mainnet üzerinde beta aşamasında olduğunu duyurduk. Bu gelişmenin ne anlama geldiğini açıklamak üzere, Türkçe bir yazıyla karşınızdayız. Mainnet beta sürümü, geliştiricilerin artık Ethereum üzerinde ZK kanıtlarını %10’dan daha düşük bir maliyetle doğrulayabileceği
Hackathons
Welcome to the first post in a series showcasing the winners of the inaugural Aligned Builders Hackathon. Each article will highlight innovative use cases for ZK technology enabled by Aligned's Proof Verification Layer. The hackathon projects ranged from ZK-enabled games and private voting apps to light client bridging
$ALIGN
Aligned, Proof Verification Layer mainnet beta aşamasına, kurulduktan dokuz ay sonra ulaştı. Proof Verification Layer (kanıt doğrulama katmanı), projelere ve kullanıcılara hızlı ve uygun maliyetli zk-proof doğrulaması sunarak sıfır bilgi (zk) tabanlı teknolojilerin geliştirilmesi ve benimsenmesi için önemli bir adımı temsil ediyor. Aligned Foundation, Aligned’ın yol haritasını hızlandırmak ve
Aligned Core
We’re proud to reflect on a transformative year for Aligned. Here's what we have achieved over the past year working to help a foundation for a scalable, trustless proof verification. Aligned accelerates Ethereum’s roadmap with zero-knowledge technology, enabling proof verification at just 10% of the cost.
Technical Content
Recap In our previous blog, we explored the fundamental properties of cryptographic hash functions (CHFs) and discussed their crucial role in maintaining the integrity and security of data with 3MI Labs. In this post, we delve into the architectural strategies behind hash functions. These strategies, or modes of operation, are
$ALIGN
We are excited to announce that the Aligned Foundation has pledged 1.5% of the $ALIGN token supply to the Protocol Guild. With this pledge, we affirm our commitment to Ethereum and to supporting the ecosystem’s continued development and long-term sustainability. 📣We invite you to join us for an
$ALIGN
It’s been a few weeks since we released the mainnet beta of our Proof Verification Layer, allowing users and developers to benefit from lower verification costs on Ethereum. After 9 months of work, testnets, audits, improvements to telemetry and reliability, the Aligned Foundation wants to thank the community and