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-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
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, 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-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
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
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-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.
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
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-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:
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
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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
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✨ 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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✨ 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:
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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,
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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
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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
✨ 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
Monthly recaps
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