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. 💜
It provided details about our recently announced partnership.
(Mina will verify their Ethereum proofs with Aligned!) ✅
We will be diving into the depths of the Aligned x Mina partnership with @bkase_ from @MinaProtocol & @o1_labs on Friday, July 12th, at 5PM CEST!
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) July 11, 2024
Set your alarm for "The alignment of the ‘Proof of Everything" X Space:https://t.co/bQA38APDDr pic.twitter.com/6obkmKbFrY
Alignment levels at the Brussels events were high. 🚀
Among the various activities in Brussels, we had:
✅ A co-working space with Polygon.
✅ And two of our co-founders, Diego Kingston & Mauro Toscano, gave a talk on "Provable Applications Aligned".
Today is the third and final day of our co-working space with @0xPolygon!
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) July 9, 2024
Be here for 10:30 to catch a technical talk on "Provable Applications Aligned" with our co-founders @MauroToscanoDev & @zkdiegokingston.
→ Register here: https://t.co/DtIPZPcQNx ✅ pic.twitter.com/wesxfGaXHt
Lambda Hack Week 2 surpassed all expectations! 💻
LambdaClass shared this cool video showcasing some of the team at the awesome event.
🚀 #LambdaHackWeek Wrap-Up 🚀
— LambdaClass (@class_lambda) July 10, 2024
A big shoutout to all the participants who brought their A-game and made this event so awesome.
Huge thanks to our incredible team and sponsors —couldn’t have done it without you 🙌
Stay tuned for more exciting events. Let’s keep pushing the… pic.twitter.com/7gDc7Zla4W
The ZK Hack Meetup in Brussels was absolutely wild! 🚀
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.
Very nice crowd at our ZK Hack Meetup in Brussels! #Ethcc2024
— ZK Hack (@__zkhack__) July 9, 2024
And all-star speakers of course 😊
Also, a great opportunity to mention ZK Hack Montréal on Aug 9-11 😎
It’s always exciting to share the website with zk-friends 🤗 https://t.co/fGyMyohLci pic.twitter.com/lH900j7LTe
StarkWare made an exciting announcement: StarkWare Scholar Summit. 🔎
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.
We are thrilled to announce the StarkWare Scholar Summit in NYC 🎓
— StarkWare 🐺🐱 (@StarkWareLtd) July 14, 2024
A full day of learning on theoretical research & practical implementations with Turing Award and Gödel Prize winners, @StarkWareLtd team members, @sreeramkannan, and more 🧠
Join us: https://t.co/App6OPlWx7 🧑🔬 pic.twitter.com/FtoW0FVwqG
PlayFi's new blockchain, part of ZKsync's Elastic Chain ecosystem. 🖥️
This ecosystem's interoperability gives you an amazing user experience as you seamlessly transition between projects and platforms.
PlayFi’s ZK Chain was designed to be composable from the beginning.
— ZKsync (∎, ∆) (@zksync) July 12, 2024
With seamless interoperability between other ZK Chains in the Elastic Chain ecosystem, creators can use data from PlayFi’s entertainment experiences on their ZK Chain. https://t.co/w4caU8FtZd
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.
TON Applications Chain (TAC) is building a zk-powered L2 w/ Polygon CDK that will connect to the AggLayer, enabling seamless interop & unified liquidity for the @ton_blockchain ecosystem
— Polygon | Aggregated (@0xPolygon) July 9, 2024
+ EVM compatibility for telegram dApps
+ even more users for the aggregated blockchain… https://t.co/XU0e73mPnQ
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.
The new 1.8.0. protocol upgrade is live.
— Taiko 🥁 (@taikoxyz) July 13, 2024
This protocol release introduces optimizations without requiring proposers and provers to upgrade their software.
Link to v1.8.0https://t.co/0SIrj59IwU
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Risc Zero is live on Base! ✅
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.
RISC Zero is officially live on @base 🎉
— RISC Zero 🟡 (@RiscZero) July 9, 2024
Developers, unleash the power of our industry-leading zkVM with Rust to create compute-intensive dApps.
Unlock boundless ZK compute across the Base ecosystem. 🟡🔵 pic.twitter.com/HyMAzTNeCf
A remarkable paper by Trisha Datta in collaboration with Charles Chen and Dan Boneh. 📗
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.
Excited to share VerITAS - a system for using ZK-proofs for image provenance verification: https://t.co/MPJW4Xyyzp.
— Trisha Datta (@TrishaCDatta) July 9, 2024
This is joint work with @Charles_Chen533 and @danboneh.
zkLink’s L3 Summit was an incredible source of knowledge. 🚀
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:
1/🚀Our #L3 & #ZK Night, brought to by @zkLink_Official @zkLinkNova & @LineaBuild, has successfully concluded on the 10th of July at BrewDog Brussels.
— L3 Summit | L3 & ZK Night Token2049 Singapore (@L3_Summit) July 12, 2024
Let's find out why #L3 & #ZK Night is the go-to meetup for Layer 3 and ZK Developers, Founders and Enthusiasts.
Here is a quick…
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