ZK-News - 8th-14th July '24

ZK-News - 8th-14th July '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 8th - 14th July.

We hosted an amazing X Space with Mina Protocol. πŸ’œ

It provided details about our recently announced partnership.

(Mina will verify their Ethereum proofs with Aligned!) βœ…

Alignment levels at the Brussels events were high. πŸš€

Among the various activities in Brussels, we had:

βœ… A co-working space with Polygon.

βœ… And two of our co-founders, Diego Kingston & Mauro Toscano, gave a talk on "Provable Applications Aligned".

Lambda Hack Week 2 surpassed all expectations! πŸ’»

LambdaClass shared this cool video showcasing some of the team at the awesome event.

The ZK Hack Meetup in Brussels was absolutely wild! πŸš€

Excited to see fantastic folks like Jordi Baylina and Sandeep from Polygon, Rami and Jeremy Bruestle from Risc Zero, Uma Roy from Succinct Labs, Diego Kingston from Aligned, and more.

StarkWare made an exciting announcement: StarkWare Scholar Summit. πŸ”Ž

A full day of learning on theoretical research & practical implementations.

Featuring Eli Ben Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Sreeram Kannan, and more!

It was great to see these educational initiatives.

PlayFi's new blockchain, part of ZKsync's Elastic Chain ecosystem. πŸ–₯️

This ecosystem's interoperability gives you an amazing user experience as you seamlessly transition between projects and platforms.

TON Blockchain adopts Polygon Tech to create a new L2 network. ⛓️

TON Blockchain is building a zk-powered L2 with Polygon CDK that will connect to the AggLayer.

Taiko v.1.8.9 upgrade is live! ✨

It incorporates several optimizations, ensuring that proposers and provers don't need to update their software.

Here you can find the repo with the details.

Risc Zero is live on Base! βœ…

A few weeks ago, Risc Zero launched zkVM 1.0, the world's first and most performant, production-ready, general-purpose zkVM. It makes ZK proofs more scalable and practical.

A remarkable paper by Trisha Datta in collaboration with Charles Chen and Dan Boneh. πŸ“—

This contribution allows you to verify that a published photo is derived from an authenticated photo after certain edits.

A valuable tool in the fight against misinformation.

zkLink’s L3 Summit was an incredible source of knowledge. πŸš€

It featured insightful discussions, thought-provoking ideas, and a vibrant community of builders and innovators.

We're so happy to have been sponsors of this fantastic event.

Here is a recap:

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