ZK-News - 24th-30th June '24

ZK-News - 24th-30th June '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 24th - 30th June.

We are excited to announce our Aligned Bounty Program at Lambda Hack Week 2. ✨

The second Lambda Hack Week is almost here, and we are offering a prize pool for projects building with Aligned.

The possibilities are endless: ZK Oracles, fast bridges, and more.

A reminder from our partner Polygon of our co-hosted event in Brussels. ✅

Polygon <> Aligned Co-Working Space!

An incredible opportunity for networking and learning.

Remember the date: July 7 - 9th.

X Layer posted detailed info about how they optimized Polygon zkEVM Prover for GPU Acceleration. 🖥️

Critical components like profiling, NTT, and Merkle Tree enhancements were improved, along with data transfer acceleration through pinned memory and CUDA streams.

ZK explained succinctly, by Uma Roy of Succinct Labs. 📒

This video explains how powerful it is that one individual can generate proofs and various participants can efficiently verify them.

Watch to find out why ZK is the perfect partner for blockchain scalability.

L2BEAT introduced the ZK Catalog! 📗

This page aggregates information about source code verification of ZK programs and aims to standardize practices wherever possible.

It also provides detailed information on the proof system architectures of the listed projects.

Justin Drake and James Gaps announced the grantees for the first collaborative ZK grant round with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and ZKsync. 📢

Congratulations to the winners!

Immutable zkEVM Mainnet Early Access is Live! ✅

Currently in early access mode, Immutable zkEVM will only allow select game studios and partners to deploy custom smart contracts at launch.

Union Public Testnet is Live! ⭐️

Users can play a key role in the development of modular interoperability and test the Union network ahead of its mainnet launch.

Congrats to Union!

Another great ZK Podcast! 📢

Anna Rose and Nicolas Mohnblatt chat with Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev about their new book, Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions.

Valuable insights.

We co-hosted a X Space with our partner Swell where we discussed ‘Accelerating Ethereum with ZK-proofs and restaking’ with two more of our partners Brevis and Rádius!

Missed the event? Listen to the recording here! 🎧

The ZK Hack Meetup in Brussels is just around the corner! 🥳

We're proud to be sponsoring this event.

Mark your calendars for July 9th!

Details below.

Another high quality episode from The Rollup! 🚀

Here Avi Zurlo, CPO of =nil; Foundation, discusses why zkSharding could be the best path forward for @ethereum scaling, providing more details about its roadmap, discussing the sovereignty vs interoperability debate, & more!

Jarrod Watts, developer relations engineer at Polygon, shared an highly educational video about how you can create a ZK-EVM L2 blockchain. 🔎

The video covers everything from a conceptual understanding to details on building each of the components.


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