ZK-News - 30th September-6th October '24

ZK-News - 30th September-6th October '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 30th September - 6th October.

Alignoors, we’re very excited to have announced our 29th Partnership: Fermah. 🎉

We’re building complementary pieces of infrastructure that will help bring the world closer to ZK.

✅ Fermah generates proofs.

✅ Aligned verifies them.

Definitely, Fermah is aligned.

Stay tuned for more details about this partnership very soon.

StarkWare shared its long-term mission and values in an amazing video by its CEO Eli Ben-Sasson. ⚡️

The video provides a comprehensive overview of the blockchain landscape, offering insights into its past, present, and future.

It helps address fundamental questions about the technology's trajectory and its potential impact.

This vision, where innovation and integrity play key roles, is truly inspiring.

Attention builders and users, Kakarot is moving to Starknet Sepolia! 🥕

In the coming days, Kakarot Sepolia will be deprecated in favor of Kakarot Starknet Sepolia.

This marks another step forward on the path to mainnet.

Read the full announcement here 👇

Dive into the world of ZK with an amazing conversation between Nader Dabit from EigenLayer and Vanishree Rao, founder of Fermah. 📢

This conversation provides details about the potential of ZK, the challenges that need to be overcome, building a marketplace for ZK proof generation, and many more.

We are proud to have recently announced a partnership with Fermah and are excited about what we can do together.

Conduit is teaming up with Succinct Labs to bring ZKPs to the OP Stack. ⭐️

Want to launch an OP Stack chain with ZK proofs or convert an existing chain into a ZK rollup? Reach out to them!

This partnership is very interesting and will definitely boost ZK to a new level.

Union announced its Trusted Setup Ceremony. 🚀

This is an important step on Union’s road to mainnet.

In the linked tweet you have more information, including an X Space with more details about it.

We congratulate Union on this exciting advancement!

A new ZK Podcast, featuring Zac Williamson​ & Ariel Gabizon from Aztec, is now out! 📢

Listen to learn about:

✅ MegaPlonk.

✅ IVC.

✅ ProtoGalaxy.

✅ And more.

An episode packed with information that ZK enthusiasts will love.


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