ZK-News - 17th-23th June '24

Carlos Lira

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ZK-News - 17th-23th June '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 17th - 23th June.

Aligned Testnet 3 : Our first EigenLayer AVS opened to external operators. ✅

This week was huge for Aligned.

A very significant milestone in our journey towards mass adoption of ZK proofs on Ethereum.

Great paper from Ingonyama: ICICLE v2. 📒

It offers a framework to implement ZKPs in a very intuitive way.

And it also leverages its polynomial API to abstract away low-level hardware primitives and automate their memory management.

Kakarot has announced its most significant update to date. 🥕

This represents multiple improvements and optimizations to its ZK-EVM rollup, aiming to enhance your overall experience on the Kakarot Testnet.

Risc Zero introduced zkVM 1.0. 🖥️

The world’s first and most performant, production-ready, general-purpose zkVM.

It makes ZK proofs more scalable and practical; a major milestone for blockchain efficiency.

Brevis announced that they are partnering with 0G Labs to bring highly secure cross-chain DA to 0G, powered by ZK proofs. ⛓️

This is important as some solutions rely on centralized bridges, prone to corruption.

A new ZK Podcast episode is out! 📢

It features a conversation between Anna Rose & Tarun Chitra with Simanta Gautam & Liam Eagen from Alpen Labs about ZK on Bitcoin, ZK-bridges and more.

Attention, hackers! ZK Hack reminds us of its event in Montreal, August 9-11. 🧠

Their first event hosted outside of Europe. An excellent space to learn and meet ZK enthusiasts.

Ternoa launched zkEVM+ Testnet, a security and privacy-centric L2 built with Polygon CDK. ✅

This full EVM-equivalent infrastructure brings censorship resistance via integrity proofs to secure digital assets on Ethereum.

If you want to learn more about Aligned and how we are accelerating Ethereum, read our whitepaper.

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