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What our Tokenomics Update means for ZK Arcade participants

As many of you may know, we’ve recently shared an update to the ALIGN tokenomics. Here's what it means for ZK Arcade participants. You can check if your wallet is eligible at https://community.alignedlayer.com ZK Arcade Airdrop Overview ZK Arcade participants are allocated 0.10%

What our Tokenomics Update means for CoinList participants

We’ve recently shared an update to the ALIGN tokenomics. As part of this update, the token unlock schedules for CoinList sale participants have changed, increasing early liquidity at TGE. Here’s what’s changed. CoinList represents 1.04% of the total ALIGN token supply. Participants had two options, each

Aligned ALIGN Tokenomics Update

TL;DR * Total Supply: 10,000,000,000 ALIGN * Allocation: 23.50% Team | 19.71% Investors | 18.00% Ecosystem | 16.61% Future Provisions | 11.40% Foundation | 8.74% Airdrop | 2.04% Community Sales * TGE Circulating Token Supply: ~16% Aligned builds the tools that turn Ethereum into the world’s financial

The Weekly Ethereum Bulletin! Vol. 8: February 28–March 6, 2026

Key highlights: * Aligned Introduced its Wallet-as-a-Service * Vitalik Buterin Presents Ethereum Scaling Roadmap * Starknet Publishes 2026 Infrastructure Roadmap * Court Dismisses Class Action Against Uniswap Labs * Aave DAO Approves “Aave Will Win” Framework * OtterSec Reports Fiat–Shamir Bug Across Multiple zkVMs Aligned Introduced its Wallet-as-a-Service Aligned introduced its Wallet-as-a-Service, designed to onboard

Introducing Aligned's Wallet-as-a-Service

If you want to bring millions of users to Ethereum, you have a wallet problem. Seed phrases, browser extensions, and manual key management are fine for crypto-native users. They are not fine for a citizen accessing their government-issued digital identity, or a retail customer making their first on-chain payment, or

The Weekly Ethereum Bulletin! Vol. 7: February 21–27, 2026

Key highlights: * Aligned Showcases Wallet-as-a-Service Demo * Vitalik Buterin Outlines Ethereum’s Quantum Resistance Roadmap * EF Protocol Publishes “Strawmap” L1 Roadmap * Coinbase Institute Publishes Framework on Onchain Settlement Finality * Ethereum Foundation Reaffirms Commitment to DeFi * L2BEAT Launches Interop Dashboard to Track Cross-Chain Flows Aligned Showcases Wallet-as-a-Service Demo Aligned released its first

The Weekly Ethereum Bulletin! Vol. 6: February 14–20, 2026

Key highlights: * Ethereum's tokenized RWA market surpassed 15 billion USD, a nearly 200% year-over-year increase. * Protocol Priorities Update for 2026 * FOCIL Scheduled for Hegotá * OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench * SP1 Hypercube Live on Mainnet Ethereum's tokenized RWA market surpassed $15 billion, a nearly 200% year-over-year increase

The Weekly Ethereum Bulletin! Vol. 5: February 6–13, 2026

Key highlights: * LambdaClass Details Ethlambda’s Minimalist Post-Quantum Architecture * Miden and LambdaClass Launch Strategic Collaboration to Build Privacy-Focused Onchain Ventures * The Ethereum Foundation Announces Executive Leadership Transition * Uniswap Labs and Securitize Enable Onchain Trading of BlackRock’s BUIDL * Coinbase Introduces Agentic Wallets for Autonomous AI Agents * The Ethereum Foundation Partners

Aligned Monthly Recap - January '2026

As we close out January, we're excited to share a look at what the Aligned ecosystem has been working on over the past month. From a major mainnet launch to deep-dive articles on Ethereum and Ethrex, this recap captures the milestones and ideas driving our mission forward. Below,

The Weekly Ethereum Bulletin! Vol. 4: January 31–February 6, 2026

Key highlights: * LambdaClass publishes updates on Ethlambda, Lambdaworks, and a 20x faster Ethrex * Vitalik Buterin Revises the Role of Ethereum L2s * Jordi Baylina Proposes Synchronous Rollups Using Real-Time Proving * Y Combinator Supports USDC Funding on Base LambdaClass Shares Update on EthLambda and Post-Quantum Lean Consensus LambdaClass published a follow-up article

The Weekly Ethereum Bulletin! Vol. 3: January 24–30, 2026

Key highlights: * LambdaClass Explores Lean 4 for ZK Systems and Engineering * The Ethereum Foundation Forms Post-Quantum Security Team * L1-zkEVM Implementation Roadmap Published * Tether Launches USA₮ Stablecoin * Fidelity announces FIDD stablecoin * Robinhood Plans 24/7 Tokenized Stocks LambdaClass Explores Lean 4 for ZK Systems and Engineering LambdaClass published an in-depth introductory

The Weekly Ethereum Bulletin! Vol. 2: January 17–23, 2026

Key highlights: * Aligned releases Proof Aggregation Service on Mainnet Alpha * LambdaClass shares three in-depth articles on Ethereum infrastructure, Lean Consensus, and ZK Security * NYSE announces a platform for trading and on-chain settlement of tokenized securities * Coinbase and Circle partnered with the Government of Bermuda to build a fully onchain national

Proof Aggregation Service: Mainnet Alpha Release

Today we're announcing the mainnet alpha release of our Proof Aggregation Service, a critical piece of infrastructure enabling ZK proofs to power our suite of products with full Ethereum security.

ZK News is now The Weekly Ethereum Bulletin! Vol. 1: Kickoff Edition

ZK News is now the Ethereum Weekly Bulletin: Your weekly summary of the biggest stories in Ethereum

Ethereum and Zero Knowledge: Key Highlights from 2025

Here at Aligned we’ve been publishing a weekly report covering news related to Ethereum and Zero Knowledge, delivered through what we’ve been calling ZK News.  Starting in 2026, ZK News will be rebranded to reflect a broader and more consistent view of the ecosystem, expanding into a weekly

From ZK proof verification to a full stack for building on Ethereum: Aligned's 2025 recap

2025 was the year Aligned evolved from a single technical focus—making proof verification on Ethereum fast and affordable via our Proof Verification Layer—to offering a broader, vertically integrated stack designed to help enterprises and institutions build on Ethereum. In early Q2 we published our updated and expanded roadmap,

Aligned Monthly Recap - December '2025

As we wrap up December, we’re excited to share a snapshot of what the Aligned ecosystem has been building and exploring over the past month. From core infrastructure progress to live demos and in-depth research, this recap highlights the ideas and work shaping our direction as we head into

ZK Industry News: December 18th to 24th, 2025

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK and Ethereum. Here's what happened from December 18th to 24th, 2025. The Ethereum Foundation shared an article on upcoming zkEVM Security Targets The article discusses the ongoing

ZK Industry News: December 11th to 17th, 2025

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK and Ethereum. Here's what happened from December 11th to 17th, 2025. Ethrex is now live on Ethproofs The LambdaClass team has deployed its prover using ZisK on

ZK Industry News: December 4th to 10th, 2025

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK and Ethereum. Here's what happened from December 4th to 10th, 2025. Federico Carrone and Roberto Catalan posted an article explaining how Ethereum is emerging as the new

Aligned Monthly Recap - November '2025

The past month has been busy but rewarding! Here's a recap of our highlights: ► Aligned at Devconnect ► The Aligned Milestones ► Alignment Sessions and X Spaces ► Ethrex - Aligned integration Demo ► Engineering updates ► Aligned at Devconnect A recap of Devconnect, including events such as Align n’ Dine, EthDay, ZKonnect,

ZK Industry News: November 27th to December 3rd, 2025

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK and Ethereum. Here's what happened from November 27th to December 3rd, 2025. LambdaClass is launching ethlambda, a minimalist lean Ethereum consensus client Just like with Ethrex, a

The year of zkVM real-time proving: milestones, present and future

Introduction Ethereum is a decentralized verifiable computer. The way in which we can achieve this verifiability is through re-execution of each computation, consensus and economic incentives. Nevertheless, this strategy suffers from one main drawback: all the nodes have to do the same work over and over again in order to

Aligned Engineering Updates: November, 2025

During November we ran the zk-arcade campaign, and delivered 33 PRs across both repositories that expanded platform capabilities and improved stability. Major highlights: * Ethereum Fusaka Fork migration: Migrated Aligned to support Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade with EIP-7594 blob sidecars * Mina verifier integration: Added support for Mina proof systems, expanding

ZK Industry News: November 20th to 26th, 2025

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK and Ethereum. Here's what happened from November 20th to 26th, 2025. Aligned shared a recap of Devconnect, including events such as Align n’ Dine, EthDay, ZKonnect, and

ZK Industry News: November 13th to 19th, 2025

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK and Ethereum. Here's what happened from November 13th to 19th, 2025. BoulderTech and LambdaClass unveiled BoulderLam to bring scalable, compliant blockchain infrastructure to LATAM Led by CEO

ZK Industry News: November 6th to 12th, 2025

✨ 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 November 6th to 12th, 2025. Uniswap's founder, Hayden Adams, introduced the long-awaited UNIfication proposal, aiming to activate protocol fees, realign ecosystem

Aligned Engineering Updates: November 3rd to 7th, 2025

This week focused on fixing issues presented by users of ZK Arcade, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency across the platform. We also introduced improvements to our internal systems adding enhanced summaries of operational costs and earnings. We added support for Mina verifiers in Aligned staging, supporting the ongoing work

ZK Industry News: October 30th to November 5th, 2025

✨ 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 October 30th to November 5th, 2025. The Sovra team joined Mexican government and ecosystem leaders to highlight the state’s role in advancing

Aligned Monthly Recap - October '2025

Another busy month in the books! Here's a recap of our highlights: ► ZK Arcade mainnet + early access ► Alignment Sessions ► Aligned Guests ► Blog posts ► ZK Arcade goes live on mainnet ZK Arcade is now live! 700 users with exclusive early access can experience ZK tech on Ethereum through two

ZK Industry News: October 23rd to 29th, 2025

✨ 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 October 23rd to 29th, 2025. Introducing a New Cryptography & Distributed Systems Research Center, a collaboration between LambdaClass, FIUBA, and Exactas UBA Research

ZK Arcade: Now Live On Mainnet

ZK Arcade is a new platform built on Aligned that lets player prove their results in games and verify them onchain using Aligned's Proof Verification Layer.

ZK Industry News: October 16th to 22nd, 2025

✨ 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 October 16th to 22nd, 2025. Vitalik Buterin published an article outlining the GKR Protocol This protocol is behind several proof systems and enables

ZK Industry News: October 9th to 15th, 2025

✨ 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 October 9th to 15th, 2025. Aligned has entered the final stage of the whitelist process for early access to ZK Arcade ZK Arcade,

Win early access to ZK Arcade through our partners and operators!

ZK Arcade, powered by Aligned, is launching soon. Enter raffles by our partners to win early access to our platform.

ZK Industry News: October 2nd to 8th, 2025

✨ 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 October 2nd to 8th, 2025. Succinct introduced Private Proving, enabling privacy at scale through its zkVM, SP1, and TEE technology Developers can now

ZK Industry News: September 25th to October 1st, 2025

✨ 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 September 25th to October 1st, 2025. Ethereum's Holesky testnet has been successfully upgraded to Fusaka This upgrade went live on Holesky

ZK Arcade: coming soon

ZK Arcade is a new platform built on Aligned that lets player prove their results in games and verify them onchain using Aligned's Proof Verification Layer.

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 Industry News: September 18th to 24th, 2025

✨ 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 September 18th-24th, 2025. The Fusaka upgrade has been tentatively targeted for Ethereum's mainnet activation on December 3, 2025 Ethereum core developers

ZK Industry News: September 11th to 17th, 2025

✨ 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 September 11th-17th, 2025. The Ethereum Foundation is launching the dAI Team to make Ethereum the go-to platform for AI and the machine economy.

ZK Industry News: September 4th to 10th, 2025

✨ 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 September 4th-10th, 2025. StarkWare has set a record proving the entire Bitcoin block header chain in just 6.5 hours for only $13.

zkVMs, Circuits, and the Optimization Game

Mauro Toscano, Aligned co-founder and CTO, explores the engineering tradeoffs between ZK circuits and zkVMs and how to think about designing and building these systems

Announcing our new strategic partnership with 4Mica

Announcing a new strategic partnership between Aligned and 4Mica, a financial infrastructure that enables sub-second value exchange across any blockchain. 

ZK Industry News: August 28th to September 3rd, 2025

✨ 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 28th to September 3rd, 2025. Pol Finance, LambdaClass, and Levenue released the Loom Finance whitepaper, a protocol that enables the tokenization of

Aligned Engineering Updates: August 25th - 29th, 2025

This week focused on network deployments and enhanced gaming experiences. We successfully deployed new networks on Sepolia and Hoodi, while delivering significant improvements to the ZK Arcade platform including a new game called Parity and better user interface elements. The Sepolia network is now being used to test the integration

Aligned Monthly Recap - August '2025

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. ► Alignment Sessions Each week on X, our team shares live updates on engineering and product progress. Tune in

ZK Industry News: August 21st to 27th, 2025

✨ 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 21st-27th, 2025. LambdaClass published two blog posts on the basics and optimization of the Sumcheck protocol The first one describes the fundamentals

Aligned Engineering Updates: August 18th - 22nd, 2025

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

Aligned Engineering Updates: August 4th - 15th, 2025

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 Industry News: August 14th to 20th, 2025

✨ 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

Key Highlights from Google’s 2025 ZK & AI Summit

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 Industry News: August 7th to 13th, 2025

✨ 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 Industry News: July 31st to August 6th, 2025

✨ 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’s Proof Verification Layer and Proof Aggregation Service: two options for making ZK on Ethereum fast, affordable, and scalable.

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

Aligned Engineering Updates: July 28th - August 1st, 2025

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

Aligned Monthly Recap - July '2025

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 Industry News: July 24th to 30th, 2025

✨ 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 & Sovra Partner to Power Digital Trust in Latin America

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

The era of AI needs Ethereum and ZK

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

Aligned Engineering Updates - July 21st - 25th, 2025

During the last week, we focused on enhancing zk arcade's usability and documentation while gathering valuable user feedback to drive continuous improvements. We also updated the testnet version of Risc0 to ensure compatibility with the latest features and performance enhancements. Closed PRs from last week 1. #73 – feat:

ZK Industry News: July 17th to 23rd, 2025

✨ 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 17th to 23rd, 2025. The Ethereum Foundation is hosting a Livestream to celebrate 10 years of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin & Joseph Lubin

Aligned RaaS: Based rollups to build the future of Ethereum

Aligned is in the business of selling access to Ethereum. Our product stack began with the Proof Verification Layer (live on mainnet since November) which was followed by the Proof Aggregation Service (currently on testnet). Together, this two-part ZK Verification Layer allows ZK proofs to be verified on Ethereum without

Aligned Engineering Updates - July 14th - 18th, 2025

Update: * Risc0 code for Aligned is being updated to its latest version, and will be deployed on mainnet soon. * #2020 * zk-arcade MVP has been finished, with work now continuing to make it more reliable and easier to use * #46 – fix(web): update favicon * #45 – feat(beast): indicate where the proof

Why Aligned Chose Ethrex as the Rollup Stack for Our RaaS Platform

Aligned’s Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform will soon give teams everything they need to access Ethereum’s trust by making rollup deployment as easy as any web2 service. We’re making based ZK-rollups accessible to anyone—so you can focus on your business case. We chose Ethrex as the stack for

ZK Industry News: July 10th to 16th, 2025

✨ 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 10th to 16th, 2025. Boundless Mainnet Beta is Live With the launch, they introduced The Signal—an open-source ZK consensus client designed

ZK Industry News: July 3rd to 9th, 2025

✨ 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 3rd to 9th, 2025. RJ and Diego Fernandez, from Aligned and Sovra, discussed the use of Ethereum for digital identity on The

ZK Industry News: June 26th to July 2nd, 2025

✨ 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 June 26th to July 2nd, 2025. Sovra showcased its Digital Trust Stack for governments and institutions Sovra enables seamless, secure identity verification, privacy,

Aligned Monthly Recap - June '2025

The past month has been busy and exciting — check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ► Aligned Suite of Products. ► Alignment Sessions. ► Aligned Guests. ► Blog posts. ► Engineering updates. ► Aligned Suite of Products We presented our full stack of vertically integrated infrastructure to simplify launching, operating, and scaling on

Aligned Engineering Updates - June 23rd - 27th, 2025

This week, the majority of the engineering team's efforts were dedicated to preparing for the release of a new version of Aligned, v0.17.0. Key tasks included updating the version of RISC Zero and integrating Circom into our supported verifiers. These changes have already been merged into

Aligned Yol Haritasındaki Yeni Ürün: Rollup-as-a-Service

Yakında, Ethereum üzerinde bir rollup başlatmak, bir web uygulaması deploy etmek kadar kolay olacak. Yeni Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platformumuz, tek tıkla ZK-rollup deploy ederek bunu mümkün kılıyor. LambdaClass tarafından geliştirilen Ethrex üzerine kurulu ve ZK Doğrulama Katmanımız (ZK Verification Layer) ile yaklaşan meta-proving servisi, cüzdan servisi ve interoperability protokolüyle doğrudan entegre

ZK Industry News: June 19th to 25th, 2025

✨ 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 June 19th to 25th, 2025. StarkWare x Giza: Powering LuminAIR with S-two for Verifiable Machine Learning They announced the integration of StarkWare’s

Aligned Engineering Updates - June 16th - 20th, 2025

Most of the work this week has been on continuing with the experiments of building games and applications on top of Aligned. We are developing 2 categories of apps. Simpler ones that can be run on the browser, and more complex ones that need to be run locally. For browser

ZK Industry News: June 12th to 18th, 2025

✨ 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 June 12th to 18th, 2025. We shared an article outlining our new Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform With a single click, users will be able

Ethereum as the Unstoppable World Machine: An Interview with Tim Clancy

On this episode of Aligned Guests, host Boris sits down with Tim Clancy to dive deep into what makes Ethereum unique, the rollup-centric roadmap, and why Tim is building Sigil: a rollup that’s prioritizing having an exit window. Boris: Tim, great to finally have you on the podcast. For

Introducing Aligned’s Rollup-as-a-Service Platform

We believe launching an Ethereum rollup should be as simple as deploying a web app. Our new Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform makes that a reality with one-click ZK-rollup deployment. Built with Ethrex, zkVMs, and our integrated ZK infra stack.

Aligned Engineering Updates - June 9th - 13th, 2025

Most of the engineering work this week has been on making new examples for Aligned, where the user can interact with or where the technologies are more novel. We are now finishing examples of ZK sudoku and another simple puzzle game, where a server generates proofs on behalf of the

ZK Industry News: June 5th to 11th, 2025

✨ 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 June 5th to 11th, 2025. The Ethereum Foundation invites you to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ethereum's genesis block Participate in

Aligned Engineering Updates - June 2nd - 6th, 2025

This week we upgraded the fast mode protocol on Testnet to its latest version, bringing some reliability upgrades and upgrading the verifiers libraries to their latest version. We also worked on improving the aggregation mode all across the board, from reliability, to performance and a better integration with the current

Why Aligned is building on Ethereum

Ethereum is becoming the backbone of a new global financial system—open, programmable, and secured by cryptography instead of institutions. For the past year, our focus has been on accelerating Ethereum’s roadmap by making Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proof verification cheaper, faster, and more scalable. By building essential infrastructure—like our

ZK Industry News: May 29th to June 4th, 2025

✨ 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 May 29th to 4th, 2025. The Ethereum Foundation introduced Protocol, a new structure for its R&D teams The initiative focuses on

Aligned Monthly Recap - May '2025

The past month has been busy and exciting — check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ► Alignment Sessions. ► Aligned Guests. ► Engineering updates. ► Special announcement: We shared our first demo of a full Ethrex <> Aligned integration This work was made possible thanks to the collaboration with LambdaClass

Aligned Engineering Updates - May 26th - 30th, 2025

Welcome to our weekly engineering updates post which details the latest improvements, features, and fixes. We have finished and merged the PRs for: 1. Scaling the aggregation mode through proofs of aggregation of aggregated proofs. 2. The full flow example for the aggregation mode. We are also doing some work

ZK Industry News: May 22nd to 28th, 2025

✨ 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 May 22nd to 28th, 2025. Ethrex, the new Rust execution client for Ethereum built by LambdaClass has made progress towards based sequencing by

Aligned Engineering Updates - May 19th - 23rd, 2025

Latest PRs merged Refactor sdk modules https://github.com/yetanotherco/aligned_layer/pull/1941 Refactor SDK modules so they have less indirection and are more structured. Verify aggregated proof on chain https://github.com/yetanotherco/aligned_layer/pull/1915 It adds missing functions for users to integrate an application with

ZK Industry News: May 15th to 21st, 2025

✨ 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 May 15th to 21st, 2025. Succinct announced SP1 Hypercube, the latest version of their zkVM, which is capable of proving Ethereum blocks in

Aligned Engineering Updates - May 12th - 16th, 2025

Latest PRs merged into our repository. Add more Events and functions on Agg Contract (#1930) https://github.com/yetanotherco/aligned_layer/pull/1930 * Adds functions to set the Risc0 verifier address and additional events on the agg contract. Update EigenLayer Contracts for Devnet (#1932) https://github.com/yetanotherco/aligned_layer/

ZK Industry News: May 8th to 14th, 2025

✨ 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 May 8th to 14th, 2025. Irreducible team has revealed a preview of PetraVM, in collaboration with Polygon PetraVM is a general-purpose virtual machine

ZK Industry News: May 1st to 7th, 2025

✨ 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 May 1st to 7th, 2025. Pectra upgrade is live on Ethereum! It provides enhanced smart wallet UX, 2x L2 scaling blobs, and improved

Aligned Monthly Recap - April '2025

The past month has been busy and exciting — check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ► Technical content. ► Educational content. ► Podcast. ► Alignment sessions. ► Community calls. ► Technical content. We shared an updated roadmap for Aligned and explain our vision and plans for the coming years. ALIGNED ROADMAP UPDATED. We’

ZK Industry News: April 24th to 30th, 2025

✨ 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 April 24th to 30th, 2025. Miden announced their $25 million seed fundraise and shared a technical overview of how they're building

Aligned's Proof Aggregation Service: now live on the Ethereum Holesky Testnet

Verifying zero-knowledge proofs on Ethereum is expensive.  With Aggregation Mode, Aligned introduces a scalable solution: compressing multiple proofs into one using recursion, drastically reducing verification costs while maintaining Ethereum-level security. This is our second major product, following the Proof Verification Layer, and is designed to give developers flexible, cost-efficient infrastructure

ZK Industry News: April 17th to 23rd, 2025

✨ 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 April 17th to 23rd, 2025. The RISC Zero team published paper presenting the Boundless protocol It introduces Proof of Verifiable Work, a new

ZK Industry News: April 10th to 16th, 2025

✨ 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 April 10th to 16th, 2025. Vitalik Buterin published an article on the importance of privacy He highlighted that ensuring privacy with open-source, universal,

The Aligned Roadmap: Ethereum as a financial backend

After a year of work and the delivery of our first product, the scope of our mission is now expanding. In this post, we share an updated roadmap for Aligned and explain our vision and plans for the coming years. We started building a very specialized piece of infrastructure to

ZK Industry News: April 3rd to 9th, 2025

✨ 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 April 3rd to 9th, 2025. Updates from Aligned (1/2): We have released our updated roadmap! We are excited to share our latest

ZK Industry News: March 27th to April 2nd, 2025

✨ 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 March 27th to April 2nd, 2025. Ingonyama published a new blog post about Hardware-friendliness of HyperPlonk The article is an extension of a

Aligned Monthly Recap - March '2025

The past month has been busy and exciting — check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ✅ Aligned by Numbers. ✅ Educational content and blog posts. ✅ Events. ✅ Alignment Sessions. ✅ Community Calls. ✅ Aligned by Numbers: Brief summary Learn about our partnerships, operators, number of verified proofs, details about the Aligned Builders

What is a zkVM and why should you care about them?

You've probably heard the term zkVM buzzing around lately, especially in the context of ZK-rollups and scaling Ethereum. This guide is meant to demystify them so you can understand what they are, how they work (at a high level), why you should care about them, and what their

ZK Industry News: March 20th to 26th, 2025

✨ 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 March 20th to 26th, 2025. StarkWare published an article outlining the importance of incentivized integrity and public verifiability in the development of social

Alternatives to re-execution

The goal of blockchains Blockchain technology has emerged to provide a decentralized and secure way to record and verify transactions across a distributed network of participants. The main objective is to eliminate the need for intermediaries, by enabling peer-to-peer transactions. This is achieved through cryptographic techniques that ensure the integrity

Neutral, standardized benchmarking of zkVM proving times

Zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) are virtual machines that let you write and execute code in common languages like Rust or C and generate proofs demonstrating the integrity of computations. This makes building with ZK much more accessible to developers, and is a key part of Ethereum’s scaling roadmap. While

ZK Industry News: March 13th to 19th, 2025

✨ 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 March 13th to 19th, 2025. Ingonyama released ICICLE-Snark, offering enhanced performance for ZK applications ICICLE-Snark outperforms other implementations in Groth16 benchmarks, pushing the

Bridge Over Troubled Fiats: Zk-Setu On & Off Ramp Solution Cuts Out the Middleman

Bridging fiat and crypto can often feel like navigating a maze of intermediaries, hidden fees, and potential censorship. Zk-Setu, a project built by Gautam, Shivansh & Ayush for the Aligned hackathon, breaks through these barriers by offering a trustless, zero-knowledge-proof-based P2P escrow platform for fiat-to-crypto exchanges. With Aligned enabling cost-effective

Hackathon Spotlight Vol. 04: Vote Like No One’s Watching: AGYSO ZK-DAO-VOTE Privacy-Preserving DAO Voting

On-chain voting has always promised transparency—but what happens when that transparency undermines privacy? Bribery, social pressure, and herd behavior can distort results, making DAOs less democratic than intended. AGYSO ZK-DAO-VOTE sets out to change that, offering a protocol that keeps votes secret while ensuring every vote is valid and

ZK Industry News: March 7th to 12th, 2025

✨ 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 March 7th to 12th, 2025. Starknet posted its vision & plan to become the first Layer 2 to settle on both Bitcoin &

ZK Industry News: February 24th to March 6th, 2025

✨ 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 24th to March 6th, 2025. Starknet v0.13.4 is now live on Starknet Testnet This version includes Cairo Native, a compiler

Aligned Monthly Recap - February '2025

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 Industry News: February 17th to 23rd, 2025

✨ 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 Industry News: February 10th to 16th, 2025

✨ 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

Hackathon Spotlight Vol. 03: Building Trust in Vector Spaces with Verifiable Nearest-Neighbor Search

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

ZK Industry News: February 3rd to 9th, 2025

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Each week, we're bringing you industry highlights so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from February 3rd to 9th, 2025. Mina releases a zkML Library zkML allows AI models to function on-chain with full privacy and verification, opening

Aligned Hackathon Spotlight Vol. 02: Spectre ZK Light Client Re-implementation and Integration with Aligned

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

ZK Industry News: January 27th to February 2nd, 2025

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Each week, we're bringing you industry highlights so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from January 27th to February 2nd, 2025. Mina offers an update on the status of bridges in the Mina Protocol ecosystem This update includes

Aligned Mainnet Beta Sürümü

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

Aligned Monthly Recap - January '25

The last month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned! Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ✅ Educational content. ✅ Blog posts. ✅ Valuable announcements about our ecosystem. ✅ Events. ✅ X Spaces and Community Calls. Enjoy! ✅ Let's start with our educational content. 🔹 Everything you need to know

ZK-News - January 20th-26th, '25

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from January 20th to 26th, 2025. New blog post series: Showcasing the awesome projects built during our hackathon. 💻 This series will showcase various use cases of ZK and demonstrate how Aligned can support these projects! The first featured

Aligned Hackathon Spotlight Vol. 01: A Framework for ZK Gaming

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

ZK-News - January 13th-19th, '25

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from January 13th to 19th, 2025. Showing how important decentralization is to us: Sharing data from our operators. 🚀 Our Proof Verification Layer is powered by 55 operators and currently secured by more than 2.4M restaked ETH (over

零知识证明年度回顾与总结

Aligned 20 Jan 2025 查看博客文章 2024 年是零知识（ZK）技术发展历程中具有里程碑意义的一年，我们取得了重大的突破，接下来让我们一起来回顾一些闪光时刻： ✅ 重要公告 零知识技术进入以太坊共识层 Justin Drake 提出了“Beam 链”，旨在重新设计以太坊共识层。这一提议旨在通过“snark化”以太坊链，开启以太坊共识的新纪元。 了解更多 Aligned 主网测试版正式上线 令人激动的是，从零起步到主网的成功上线，仅间隔了一年时间。 阅读全文 引入 ZK-STARKs 到比特币网络 StarkWare 以扩展以太坊而闻名，现在正将其专业技术应用于比特币。这一举措有望帮助实现中本聪的愿景。 了解更多 ✅ 研究成果 证明系统 * Circle STARKs Polygon 与 StarkWare 联合完成的一项研究，推动了 STARK 技术的应用。了解更多

Aligned $ALIGN Token Ekonomisi ve Yol Haritası

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

ZK-News - January 6th-12th, '25

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from January 6th to 12th, '25. We publish a recap of ZK for all of 2024. 🎉 Alignoors, we are very excited to share with you this recap, which contains notable announcements, proving records, milestones from zkVMs, as

ZK Year in Review

2024 was a groundbreaking year for Zero-Knowledge (ZK) technology, with significant advancements. It's been an exciting journey. Let’s dive into a recap of the key highlights! Here we have: ✅ Notable Announcements 🔹 ZK in the Ethereum consensus layer 🔹 Aligned's Mainnet Beta Launch 🔹 Bringing ZK-STARKs to Bitcoin

The Future of Blockchains: Intent-Based Architectures with Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Introduction The evolution of decentralized applications (dApps) depends on a shift from programmable settlement to intent-based architectures. These systems redefine how applications are built, focusing on generalized intents—high-level expressions of desired outcomes. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and succinct validity proofs, intent-based architectures offer transformative advantages in scalability, privacy,

ZK-News: December 30th, '24-January 5th, '25

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from December 30th '24 to January 5th '25. Alignoors, we present 'Aligned, by Numbers': A recap of the last 10 months. 🚀 Here, you will find data on: ✅ Our performance. ✅ Audits. ✅ Partnerships. ✅ Talks. ✅ Hackathons. ✅ Operators.

Aligned Monthly Recap - December '24

The last month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned! Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ✅ Airdrop announcements. ✅ Technical Content. ✅ Audits. ✅ Meme contest. Enjoy! ✅ Let's start with the Genesis Drop announcements. 🔹 Wave 1. This was dedicated to developers, engineers, and researchers who have

2024 BY NUMBERS: THE ALIGNED RECAP

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.

ZK-News - December 23rd-29th, '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from December 23rd to 29th, '24. A new blog post in collaboration with our partners 3MI Labs is out: How to construct a Hashing Mode? 🤯 It's an in-depth post diving into two mode design paradigms:

Design Strategies: How to Construct A Hashing Mode?

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

The Aligned Green Tide isn't losing intensity: Honoring the Zero-Knowledge Podcast

As the alignment tide gains momentum, we're excited to announce that the Aligned Foundation is including the Zero-Knowledge Podcast in the Fourth Wave of Alignment by allocating 0.2% of the $ALIGN supply. This gesture recognizes the invaluable role they play in the ZK and blockchain community through

ZK-News - December 16th-22nd, '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from December 16th to 22nd, '24. Another big announcement from the Aligned Foundation: Rewarding the most loyal addresses from different ecosystems. 🚀 If you owned any of the tokens of Starknet, Mina, ZKsync, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, or EigenLayer

ALIGNED 的代币经济学及发展路径

原文链接：https://blog.alignedlayer.com/aligned-align-tokenomics-and-roadmap/ Aligned诞生九个月后，证明验证层正式进入主网测试阶段，为各类项目和用户带来了经济高效的 zk-proof 验证。这标志着基于 zk 技术发展的新阶段正式开启。Aligned Foundation 推出了 $ALIGN 代币，用于加速 Aligned 的roadmap并助力实现其愿景。 Aligned专注于开发能够降低可验证计算成本和延迟的产品，同时利用zk技术提升区块链吞吐量。其首个证明验证层基于 EigenLayer 构建，通过主动验证服务（AVS）不仅显著降低了验证成本，还大幅提升了系统吞吐量。接下来，Aligned 将推出更多产品和应用，进一步压缩成本，降低ZKP技术的使用门槛，为更加注重验证和安全性的新一代应用奠定基础。 Aligned 的发展离不开zk和区块链技术人员的开创性贡献，以及各大社区的支持。随着 $ALIGN TGE的临近，基金会希望分享 $ALIGN的功能与代币经济模型，以此来激励zk和区块链技术的研究、开发

Rewarding the loyal ones with a tsunami of $ALIGN tokens

Backing those who were still there when things turned grey. The Aligned Foundation will be allocating a significant portion of the total $ALIGN supply to token holders of Mina, EigenLayer, and pioneering Ethereum zk L2s. More specifically, to those that continued to hold, even at the lowest point. No matter

The Aligned Foundation pledges 1.5% of $ALIGN to Protocol Guild

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

The Alignment tide isn’t stopping: fourth wave of Alignment

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

ZK-News - December 9th-15th, '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from December 9th to 15th, '24. Another Big Announcement from the Aligned Foundation: Presenting $ALIGN Tokenomics and Roadmap. 🚀 Alignoors, there's definitely no rest for the Alignment. In the past few weeks, we've had:

Summary of the security audits for Aligned's Proof Verification Layer

Introduction Recently, we launched Aligned mainnet beta, allowing developers and users to leverage the advantages of our proof verification layer. It's been less than a year since we proposed Aligned to deal with some of the leading problems for ZK adoption: high verification costs, low throughput, high latency,

Alignment Eligibility: The First Three Waves

We announced the mainnet beta of our Proof Verification Layer two weeks ago, after nearly 9 months of hard work that included its conceptualization, design, proof of concept, testnets, and extensive security audits. This was only made possible with the support of the community and all the developers, engineers, and

Aligned $ALIGN Tokenomics and Roadmap

Nine months after proposing Aligned, the Proof Verification Layer has reached its mainnet beta, bringing projects and users affordable and fast verification of zk-proofs. This marks the beginning of another phase, to keep developing and building zk-powered technologies. The Aligned Foundation presents $ALIGN, which will be used to accelerate Aligned’

ZK-News - December 2nd-8th, '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from December 2nd to 8th, '24. Prove your Alignment: The Aligned Foundation made an important announcement of thanks to multiple developers, engineers, and researchers. 🚀 The Alignment begins! Check your eligibility for a future claim. Things are moving

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

ZK-News - 25th November-1st December '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from 25th November - 1st November '24. Aligned's ZK Verification Layer — Mainnet Beta — is now LIVE on Ethereum. 🎉 Alignoors, read the full announcement for supported verifiers, estimated verification cost savings, and more. We couldn'

Now live on Ethereum: Aligned Mainnet Beta

After 9 months of development we are happy to announce that Aligned's ZK verification layer is now in beta on Ethereum mainnet. This means that developers can now verify ZK proofs on Ethereum for less than 10% of the cost and that they can submit thousands of proofs

Announcing The Aligned Builders Hackathon Results

We’re thrilled to officially announce the winners of the Aligned Builders Hackathon! The incredible talent and dedication of all participants made this an event to remember, showcasing the potential unlocked by ZKPs and blockchain technologies through the power of new zkVMs, overcoming bottlenecks with fast and cost-efficient verification using

ZK-News - 19th-24th November '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from 19th to 24th November '24. Learn about hash functions with this blog post, by 3MI Labs and Diego Kingston. ⚡ In it, you will learn what its basic properties are, what the differences between regular and cryptographic

Introduction: Hash functions in Cryptography

Cryptographic Hash Functions (CHF) are fundamental to securing the digital world. From protecting passwords to enabling blockchain and zero-knowledge (ZK) systems, CHFs play a crucial role in ensuring the integrity, security, and privacy of data. This blog is the first in a series where we’ll explore the world of

ZK-News - 13th-18th November '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from 13th to 18th November '24. Aligned Devcon Recap! 🎉 Alignoors, we all agree that this must have been the best Devcon so far. We are delighted to see so much excitement around the activities and being so

ZK-News - 4th-12th November '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from 4th to 12th November. Discover our agenda at Devcon. 🚀 Alignoors, we're excited to share the Aligned Devcon Agenda with you. It's packed with engaging sessions, including the participation of our co-founders: ✅ Federico Carrone

A Series On Hash Functions

The development and use of integrity/zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs has accelerated over the past few years. The introduction of general purpose ZK virtual machines, which allow us to write and prove Rust code, has made developing verifiable applications easier and faster. We have blockchains like Mina that prove every block

Aligned Monthly Recap - October '24

Another big month of updates for Aligned! Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights: ✅ Aligned Builders Hackathon ✅ Events (Istanbul Hacker Alignment and Aligned Istanbul Hackerhouse) ✅ New Partnerships ✅ X Spaces, Community calls, and Technical Sessions ✅ Let’s start with our Aligned Builders Hackathon! 🚀 🔹 This hackathon was announced at

Reflections on the first Aligned Builders Hackathon

What an incredible journey it’s been! The first Aligned Builders Hackathon has officially come to a close, and we’re beyond impressed by the talent and commitment from all our participants. From experienced developers to first-timers diving into ZK proofs and Rust, every team brought something unique to the

ZK-News - 28th October-3rd November '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 28th October - 3rd November. The Aligned Partnerships Recap is out! 🚀 Alignoors, we're thrilled to share our Partnerships recap. 30 projects are fully aligned. The journey is incredibly exciting. It's a privilege

ZK-News - 21st-27th October '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 21th - 27th October. Alignoors, we're thrilled to share an X Space with the Aligned Builders Hackathon judges. 🚀 This includes: ✅ Vanishree Rao, founder Fermah ✅ Nader Dabit, director of devrel EigenLayer ✅ Austin Griffith, founder BuidlGuidl

Aligned Builders Hackathon: Judging Criteria and Submission Instructions

The inaugural Aligned Builders Hackathon is in its closing stretch, with over 250 hackers actively collaborating and innovating within our community. Over the last four weeks we have watched these projects come together and we’re eager to see what our participants will deliver. This hackathon is the first phase

ZK-News - 14th-20th October '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 14th - 20th October. Alignoors, get ready! We couldn't be more excited to announce the judges for the Aligned Builders Hackathon! 🎉 We're thrilled to have: ✅ Vanishree Rao, founder Fermah. ✅ Nader Dabit, director

Aligned Builders Hackathon: Prizes and Judging Criteria

The inaugural Aligned Builders Hackathon is in full swing. Over 250 hackers have joined our community to develop innovative projects on Aligned and to show the world what can be built using ZK. With just under two weeks left to build the competition is heating up, and more than two

ZK-News - 7th-13th October '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 7th - 13th October. Last week we had the pleasure of connecting with Alignors in Istanbul! 🎉 The event was spectacular. We're thrilled to have interacted with you and discussed what's possible with

ZK-News - 30th September-6th October '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 30th September - 6th October. Alignoors, we’re very excited to have announced our 29th Partnership: Fermah. 🎉 We’re building complementary pieces of infrastructure that will help bring the world closer to ZK. ✅ Fermah generates proofs.

Aligned Monthly Recap - September '24

This month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned! 🎉 Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ✅ Hackathon and Roadmap. ✅ Collaboration and Partnership. ✅ Events. ✅ X Spaces and Community calls. ✅ Technical content. Enjoy! ✅ Attention hackers! The Aligned Builders Hackathon has started! 💻 Join our virtual hackathon and win up

ZK-News - 23rd-29th September '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 23rd - 29th September. Alignoors, the Aligned Builders Hackathon has arrived! 🎉 Join our virtual hackathon and win up to $50,000 in prizes. Among project ideas, we have: ✅ DeFi. ✅ Gaming. ✅ Infrastructure. We're excited to

Announcing the Aligned Builders Hackathon: a virtual hackathon with up to $50,000 in prizes

Announcing the Aligned Builders Hackathon: a virtual hackathon with up to $50,000 in prizes In anticipation of Aligned’s mainnet launch, we are excited to announce the inaugural Aligned Builders Hackathon: an online hackathon series to show the world what kinds of novel and innovative applications can be built

ZK-News - 16th-22nd September '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 16th - 22nd September. Alignoors! We are excited to announce that Aligned 0.7 upgrade is coming. 🎉 We're absolutely thrilled with how things have been progressing. This represents another step on our journey to

ZK-News - 9th-15th September '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 9th - 15th September. Alignoors, we're excited to share our Roadmap for Q3-Q4 with you! 🚀 ✅ Fast mode. ✅ Aggregation mode. ✅ And many more. After months of hard work, our first product is almost ready to

Ask Aligned Anything - Community Call 11th September

Join our Discord today at 15:00 CET / 13:00 UTC, for the second edition of Ask Aligned Anything! Our co-founder Diego Kingston and Geeny from our Ecosystem team will be answering your questions and giving exclusive insights into our project roadmap. Those who listen for over ten minutes will

ZK-News - 2nd-8th September '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 2nd - 8th September. We are thrilled to announce that, after months of hard work, our first product is almost ready to be launched on mainnet. 🎉 This product (Fast Mode) will provide a crucial proof verification

Aligned Roadmap (Q3-Q4, 2024)

After months of hard work, our first product is almost ready to be launched on mainnet. We expect that this product (Fast Mode), will provide a crucial proof verification solution for many projects, greatly reducing their operational costs and go-to-market time. We have run three separate testnets to date, all

Introduction to Polynomial Commitment Schemes (PCS)

Polynomial commitment schemes (PCS) are at the core of proof systems. They determine key properties such as proof size, verification time, and whether the system is post-quantum secure. The Kate-Zaverucha-Goldberg (KZG) is a popular PCS, first appearing in 2010. Learn more: Polynomial commitment schemes allow us to commit to a

Plonk: A Mathematical Overview of this Proof System

Plonk is one of the most widely used proof systems. It is at the core of the proof systems used by ZKsync, Mina, Halo2 (by Zcash), Plonky2 (Polygon), and Succinct Labs SP1’s compression proof, gnark, due to its versatility and efficient prover. Since it's introduction, the Plonk

Partnerships category highlight: Infrastructure for ZK

Aligned is a ZK verification layer for Ethereum that makes Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proof verification fast and cheap. We believe that verifiable computation is a necessary evolutionary step for the software that powers our world, and we are working to help Ethereum become the global open coordination network that will make

ZK-News - 26th August-1st September '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 26th August - 1st September. We hosted a fantastic X Space with Versatus and Opacity Network about the stack for a decentralized future. 📢 The conversation was engaging, insightful, and definitely worth a listen! This Friday, we

Aligned Monthly Recap - August '24

This month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned. 🎉 Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ✅ New partnerships. ✅ Spaces, podcast, community call. ✅ Events. ✅ Educational videos. ✅ Technical material. Enjoy! ✅ Let’s start with our new Partnerships. 🔹 Aligned Partnerships Recap: 023 -> Orbiter Finance. Vizing is an

Mina to Ethereum Bridge

Mina is a layer 1 (L1) blockchain that uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to maintain its size at 22 kB. Its vibrant community and technology make it unique and developers and users from other ecosystems could benefit from their interaction with Mina. To this end, Aligned will support the technology needed

ZK-News - 19th-25th August '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 19th - 25th August. Alignoors! Last week we had our first Community Call and it was a huge success! ✅ We're thrilled that over 1000 users on Discord joined us. Huge thanks to our amazing

ZK-News - 12th-18th August '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 12th - 18th August. Alignors, check out our latest stats! 🎉 ✅ Partnerships. ✅ Operators. ✅ Verified batches. ✅ Verified proofs. 'Aligned by Numbers' highlights the performance of our proposal to accelerate the Ethereum’s roadmap by adoption of

Learn about: Binius - A proof system on binary fields

Recently, Vitalik Buterin wrote on binary fields and their potential to generate zero-knowledge proofs. Binary fields are finite fields with characteristic equal to two. We can view them as polynomials whose coefficients can only take the values 0 and 1, so 1 + x^2 + x^6 are elements in some

Learn About: Kimchi Proofs

Aligned is designed to verify any proof system efficiently and for a fraction of the cost in Ethereum. Kimchi is the proof system at the heart of Mina. Do you want to know what makes Kimchi special? Mina is a succinct blockchain. It generates proofs for each block,  allowing any

Aligning an interoperable multi-chain future with ZK

The future of crypto is increasingly multi-chain. Blockchains are a powerful new platform for developers to build decentralized and trustless applications, but their properties place limits on scalability. To address this, we have seen an explosion in the number of blockchains, which has increased the global supply of blockspace and

What does a ZK Verification Layer do?

Aligned is a ZK verification layer for Ethereum. But what does a ZK verification layer do? Why is it needed? Read on to find out! Ethereum is achieving scalability through a rollup-centric roadmap. There are two types of rollups: optimistic and ZK. Basically, we move execution to rollups, which inherit

ZK-News - 5th-11th August '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 5th - 11th August. ZK Hack Montreal was a huge success! 🎉 The event took place from August 9th to 11th. We are very happy to have met a lot of Aligned attendees in Montreal. ZK is

Exploring ZK Proofs: A Focus on the Groth16 proof system

Aligned is designed to verify every proof system. Groth16 was one of the first efficient proof systems. It's used by projects like Zcash, Worldcoin, RISC Zero, and SP1 by Succinct Labs. At the core of Groth16 lie pairing-friendly elliptic curves, such as BN254 and BLS12-381. These curves allow

ZK-News - 29th July-4th August '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 29th July - 4th August. We posted a recap of our highlights for July. ✅ New partnerships, X spaces, podcasts, events, and original technical content. If you only read one thread today - make it this one!

Aligned Monthly Recap - July '24

The past month has been full of exciting updates. 🎉 Check out this thread for a recap of the highlights! ✅ New partnerships. ✅ Multiple spaces and podcasts. ✅ Our participation in various events. ✅ And technical material. Enjoy! ✅ Let's start with our new partnerships: 🔹 Aligned Partnerships Recap: 018 -> Nodekit. This

ZK-News - 22nd-28th July '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 22nd - 28th July. Interested in TEEs and ZK? We co-hosted this Space with Automata Network to discuss the topic in more detail. 🎉 Speakers from: ✅ Ten Protocol. ✅ Phala Network. ✅ Gwyneth. ✅ Vanishree Rao. ✅ And more. If you

Aligned Partners with 3Ml Labs

We are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership between 3Ml Labs and Aligned! This collaboration aims to introduce innovative solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in zero-knowledge (ZK) technology and cryptography. 3Ml Labs, renowned for its cutting-edge research in cryptography, will join forces with Aligned to accelerate the

Aligned: The Integrity Layer

Aligned is designed to verify zk proofs cheaply, with high throughput and low latency. However, any existing mechanism that can guarantee computation integrity can be used in Aligned. For example, trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) like SGX, can also provide an efficient way to guarantee a computation was done correctly. This

ZK-News - 15th-21st July '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 15th - 21st July. First of all, let's recap our participation at EthCC. 🥳 ✅ Here you'll find some highlights of our co-founders, Diego Kingston and Mauro Toscano. ✅ What happened at Lambda Hack Week

ZK-News - 8th-14th July '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 8th - 14th July. We hosted an amazing X Space with Mina Protocol. 💜 It provided details about our recently announced partnership. (Mina will verify their Ethereum proofs with Aligned!) ✅ We will be diving into the depths

ZK-News - 1st-7th July '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 1st - 7th July. We’re thrilled to have announced our partnership with Mina! ✅ Aligned will help Mina verify Ethereum proofs more efficiently, making the ‘Proof of Everything’ more accessible. This is a big step forward

All the proof aggregation solutions will use RISC-V zkVMs

In recent months, we have witnessed the development and enhancement of general proving virtual machines such as Risc0, Valida, Jolt, and SP1. These innovations allow users to write ordinary code in languages like Rust or C and generate proofs demonstrating the integrity of computations. This evolution is poised to transform

ZK-News - 24th-30th June '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 24th - 30th June. We are excited to announce our Aligned Bounty Program at Lambda Hack Week 2. ✨ The second Lambda Hack Week is almost here, and we are offering a prize pool for projects building

Elliptic Curve Pairings

Elliptic curve pairings play an important role in Ethereum’s Proof of Stake and in proof systems such as Groth16 and Plonk. They allow us to perform some sort of encrypted multiplication, crucial to aggregatable signatures and some polynomial commitment schemes. However, pairings seem shrouded in mystery and complexity. Read

Aligned Bounties Lambda Hack Week 2

The second Lambda Hack Week is nearly here, and we are offering a prize pool for projects building on top of Aligned. Only a few spots remaining! Click here to register! 📆 July 6th to 9th 2024📍 Brussels. Our bounties will be awarded to projects that build innovative technology using Aligned

Sumcheck Protocol

The Sumcheck protocol is an efficient tool to develop succinct arguments. It is relied upon by many proof systems, such as Lasso/Jolt by a16z crypto, HyperPlonk, Binius, Spartan, and GKR. Sumcheck was first proposed by Lund, Fortnow, Karloff, & Nisan in 1992. The sumcheck protocol is an interactive protocol

ZK-News - 17th-23th June '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 17th - 23th June. Aligned Testnet 3 : Our first EigenLayer AVS opened to external operators. ✅ This week was huge for Aligned. A very significant milestone in our journey towards mass adoption of ZK proofs on Ethereum.

Aligned Testnet 3: Our first EigenLayer AVS open to external operators

We are excited to announce the launch of our third testnet, marking a significant advancement in the adoption of zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs on Ethereum. This is our first public testnet open to third party operators for our EigenLayer AVS. We invite you to work with us towards our goal of

ZK-News - 10th-16th June '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 10th - 16th June. Our Co-founder and Head of Research, Diego Kingston, gave a fascinating talk on hash-based proof systems at ZuBerlin. 📒 The talk delved into various aspects, including proof sizes, the benefit of not requiring

What are ZK-SNARKs?

SNARKs have gained considerable attention recently due to their broad utility in areas such as blockchain scalability, identity mechanisms, verifiable machine learning, and fighting against misinformation and fake news. We see new developments daily, but SNARKS have been around for a long time. SNARKs allow one party, the prover, to

✨ ZK-News! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 3rd - 9th June. Gevulot Network & Aligned hosted an space about our partnership 🟩 Participants included: ✅ Teemupai, CEO and Co-founder of Gevulot. ✅ Roberto Catalán, Co-founder of Aligned. ✅ and Diego Kingston, Co-founder and Head of Research of Aligned.

Aligned Manifesto

We live in an era where we can no longer trust what we read, see, or even hear. Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have accelerated the production of illusory content. Fake news and alternative facts are displayed in all formats, for any purpose, from personal vanity to political propaganda. At

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