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ZK Industry News: June 5th to 11th, 2025

Aligned Layer

13 Jun 2025 — 2 min read

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Here's what happened from June 5th to 11th, 2025.

The Ethereum Foundation invites you to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ethereum's genesis block

Participate in Ethereum’s ten-year celebration with events, networking, and conversations happening worldwide.

Join the global celebration of 10 years of @Ethereum!

We’ll celebrate Ethereum's achievements, and its bright future as we ring in the next decade together (link for livestream coming soon)!

Have ideas on ways to celebrate?

Join a party, host your own, or suggest more at the… pic.twitter.com/u4LCvhDyDo
— Ethereum Foundation (@ethereumfndn) June 6, 2025

We shared our thoughts on why we are building on Ethereum

We believe it is the best platform ever created for high-value, trustless applications and serves as the backbone of a new global financial system.

We believe Ethereum is the best network to support the high-value, trustless applications needed in the world—the inevitable core engine of the decentralized digital economy.

In our new blog post, we explain why this is where we've decided to build: https://t.co/vnFVg0vnax https://t.co/yTalLjJuA6 pic.twitter.com/zXY97vPESz
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) June 6, 2025

Ingonyama introduced accelerated ML-KEM (Module-Lattice Key Encapsulation Mechanism)

ML-KEM is a lattice-based key-encapsulation protocol selected by NIST for post-quantum cryptography.

🚀 ICICLE first step into lattice-based cryptography!

Introducing accelerated ML-KEM ✨

🧊 Up to 30% higher throughput vs. state-of-the-art
🧊 Fully open-source CUDA code (MIT licensed)

📖 Docs: https://t.co/jXacFJKUWw pic.twitter.com/PcnCRp9M0B
— Ingonyama (@Ingo_zk) June 11, 2025

Union sets record with the largest decentralized Groth16 Trusted Setup Ceremony to date

This establishes the cryptographic foundation for validating consensus and cross-chain messages with succinct validity proofs.

Union breaks the record for the largest Groth16 Trusted Setup Ceremony with 4,664 contributors and counting.

The most decentralized proving system will power trustless interop across Ethereum, BTCfi, Cosmos, and more. pic.twitter.com/VXRCl3KqKg
— Union (@union_build) June 9, 2025

Stay tuned: 🐦 Twitter | 🗨️ Telegram | 👾 Discord | 🌐 Website | 📝 Manifesto

Ethereum as the Unstoppable World Machine: An Interview with Tim Clancy

On this episode of Aligned Guests, host Boris sits down with Tim Clancy to dive deep into what makes Ethereum unique, the rollup-centric roadmap, and why Tim is building Sigil: a rollup that’s prioritizing launching with an exit window. Boris: Tim, great to finally have you on the podcast.

Introducing Aligned’s Rollup-as-a-Service Platform

We believe launching an Ethereum rollup should be as simple as deploying a web app. Our new Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform makes that a reality with one-click ZK-rollup deployment. Built with Ethrex, zkVMs, and our integrated ZK infra stack.

Aligned Engineering Updates - June 9th - 13th, 2025

Most of the engineering work this week has been on making new examples for Aligned, where the user can interact with or where the technologies are more novel. We are now finishing examples of ZK sudoku and another simple puzzle game, where a server generates proofs on behalf of the

Aligned Engineering Updates - June 2nd - 6th, 2025

This week we upgraded the fast mode protocol on Testnet to its latest version, bringing some reliability upgrades and upgrading the verifiers libraries to their latest version. We also worked on improving the aggregation mode all across the board, from reliability, to performance and a better integration with the current