ZK-News - 13th-18th November '24

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! πŸŽ‰

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 so close to our community. It was amazing.

In the linked tweet you can see a recap of our activities. We hope you enjoy it.

Lita team announced that Valida now supports Rust. πŸš€

Great news from the Lita team.

Read the announcement in this article for full updates. It features some examples.

We are so happy to partner with such an amazing team. Congrats!

Introducing Kailua, by RISC Zero. πŸ’»

Kailua is a hybrid architecture for optimistic rollups.

It brings 1-hour finality to optimistic rollup chains without the cost of constant ZK proving.

Impressive work!

Read the full announcement here.

ZK Hack presented an amazing ZK Whiteboard Session: Risc-V ZKVMs with Uma Roy. ⚑

You can't miss this session by Uma Roy from Succinct Labs.

The explanation includes the description of the core components of ZKVMs, how lookups are used, use cases and tradeoffs, and much more.

Definitely worth a watch. Check it out:

A fantastic paper has been posted: A Zero-Knowledge PCP Theorem. 🀯

The work has been presented by Tom Gur, Jack O’Connor, and Nicholas Spooner.

In the linked tweet you will find a short description by Tom Gur, and an article posted by Quanta Magazine explaining the process.

This is an amazing result. Congratulations to the authors.

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Aligned's Proof Aggregation Service: now live on the Ethereum Holesky Testnet

Aligned's Proof Aggregation Service: now live on the Ethereum Holesky Testnet

Verifying zero-knowledge proofs on Ethereum is expensive.Β  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, cost-efficient infrastructure

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