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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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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-

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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-

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

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

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

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%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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。

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

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,

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

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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，

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 omni

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

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

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

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

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

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! The

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 partnership