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

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07 Mar 2025 — 2 min read

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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 that converts Cairo's intermediate representation, "Sierra" code, to machine code via MLIR and LLVM. This work is a collaboration between StarkWare and LambdaClass, and it will be on mainnet very soon.

Starknet v0.13.4 is now live on Starknet Testnet!

This new version introduces major optimizations, including:
- Cairo-Native for faster smart contract execution (and lower fees over time)
- L2 gas for more accurate transaction fees
- Stateful compression to reduce storage costs… pic.twitter.com/iqbVxSohxq
— Starknet 🐺🐱 (@Starknet) February 27, 2025

Taiko shared educational content about Native Rollups

The article, written by Jünger, describes the advantages of native rollups over traditional rollups, as well as the details of the EXECUTION precompile.

New Research: Revisit Native Rollups

Native rollups are essentially a return of sharding, but this time it's different. They're programmable execution shards that leverage the L1’s execution environment, creating infinite scalability while inheriting Ethereum's security.

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— Taiko.eth 🥁 (@taikoxyz) March 3, 2025

OpenZeppelin releases their Cairo Library Cairo Library v1.0.0 for secure smart contract development on Starknet

This library is now fully audited and production ready.

After 3 years of work, the OpenZeppelin Cairo Library v1.0.0 release is here, now fully audited and production ready!

Building on @Starknet has never been better 🛠️ pic.twitter.com/HNT4DbalsQ
— OpenZeppelin (@OpenZeppelin) February 25, 2025

'Towards a White-Box Secure Fiat-Shamir Transformation' – A new approach to preserve the security of various systems

This paper proposes a new Fiat–Shamir transformation that aims to defend against a broad family of attacks.

Delighted to share my new paper with Eylon Yogev presenting a new Fiat-Shamir (FS) transformation that aims to be secure against recent white-box attacks: https://t.co/yoa6z1lnqw

The FS transformation is used to convert public-coin interactive protocols to non-interactive ones.
— Gal Arnon (@GalArnon42) February 25, 2025

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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