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 projects that have backed and/or inspired us.
This fourth wave is to support people and projects that contribute directly to the development of Ethereum and help raise industry standards through their work. The foundation has decided to allocate $ALIGN from the total supply to:
- Protocol Guild: 1.5%
- L2Beat: 0.2%
- ZachXBT: 0.2%
Protocol Guild is a collective funding mechanism that supports the maintainers of Ethereum's layer 1 R&D. Ethereum is the world computer and one of the most important innovations of our time. Aligned provides a proof verification layer to reduce verification costs on Ethereum, leveraging restaking, and none of it would be possible without Ethereum and its core developers. We need to ensure that it is properly supported, to ensure continued innovation and research, and to attract and retain core developers.
L2BEAT is a critical public good that raises industry standards, and we believe supporting it is essential.
ZachXBT’s in-depth investigations into scams, hacks, and illicit activities involving crypto projects raise industry standards. We need more people like ZachXBT in the space.
This wave comes after the first three, which are described in detail in the following post: https://blog.alignedlayer.com/alignment-eligibility-the-first-three-waves/
- Wave 1: engineers, researchers and developers making contributions in selected open source repos in Github. Check eligibility for the first wave
- Wave 2: Our discord OGs. Check eligibility for the second wave
- Wave 3: People completing our @Galxe quests. Check eligibility for the third wave
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