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 fulfilling our Q3 – Q4 Roadmap.

Stay tuned for more news very soon! 😉

StarkWare presents interesting content about Raito, a zero-knowledge Bitcoin client implemented in Cairo. ⚡️

It aims to provide trustless validation of the Bitcoin blockchain through STARK proof verification. 🤯

Check out the repository in the quoted tweet.

Starknet announced that Stone v3, the prover used in SHARP v6, is now open source. 💻

It's great to see such significant developments that promote transparency across the entire ecosystem.

Congratulations to Starknet!

Introducing Boundless: The Verifiable Compute Layer, by RISC Zero. 🚀

On Boundless, devs can access:

✅ Unlimited Execution.

✅ Global Composability.

✅ On-demand Scalability.

✅ Uncompromising Security.

Now in early testing. Read on to learn more.

ZK Compression is now live on Solana Mainnet-Beta. 🚀

✅ 1000x cost savings for Solana devs.

✅ A solution to state growth.

✅ A foundation for ZK compute on Solana.

Congrats Solana and Light Protocol. It's fantastic how ZK technology is growing so rapidly.

Privado ID and Disco.xyz will merge to launch the Unified Identity Protocol. ✅

It can lower the cost of trust across industries and revolutionize how users and organizations interact in the connected world. 👀

Congratulations on this initiative!

Aleo Mainnet is live!

This is the product of years of work and represents numerous innovations that reflect the learnings from previous testnets.

Get ready to address real-world problems like Secure Identity Verification, Trust-Minimized Oracle Infrastructure, and more.

Pretty special episode of The Rollup featuring a fantastic debate: ZKVM or ZK Circuits? 📢

Participants included:

✅ Uma Roy of Succinct Labs.

✅ Vanishree Rao of Fermah.

ZK enthusiasts, you won't want to miss this!

A new ZK Podcast is live! 📢

Is Cosmos Dead? This week's episode with Anna Rose and Zaki Manian delves into the Cosmos ecosystem to answer that question.

They explore key events, teams, and players who worked on Cosmos during different eras.

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