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.
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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,
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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
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Announcing our new strategic partnership with 4Mica
Announcing a new strategic partnership between Aligned and 4Mica
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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
Engineering updates
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
Monthly recaps
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
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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
Engineering updates
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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