ZK-News - December 16th-22nd, '24
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨
Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from December 16th to 22nd, '24.
Another big announcement from the Aligned Foundation: Rewarding the most loyal addresses from different ecosystems. 🚀
If you owned any of the tokens of Starknet, Mina, ZKsync, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, or EigenLayer at their lowest price you could have been eligible.
For this, nearly 1M addresses were selected, a true tsunami of tokens!
We sincerely thank everyone for their enthusiasm! The impact and possibilities of ZK technology are becoming more apparent every day.
SEND PROOFS.
Message from the Aligned Foundation
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) December 17, 2024
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The Aligned Genesis Drop Registration
In total the Aligned Foundation is open to give a tsunami of $ALIGN tokens to almost a 1M addresses.
Today we selected 891,322 addresses that held tokens from… pic.twitter.com/NJL0ue5F0y
Quantum Computing is coming: StarkWare shared an interesting article reminding us what it means for Starknet. 🐺
✅ The article describes the interesting properties of STARK proofs, given that they use post-quantum cryptographic assumptions.
✅ The importance of switching the hash function used from Pedersen to Poseidon.
✅ And much more.
Definitely a great article on an increasingly discussed topic.
Quantum computing is coming.
— StarkWare 🐺🐱 (@StarkWareLtd) December 18, 2024
Google’s recent breakthrough in quantum computing serves as a great reminder that, while we don’t know exactly when, quantum computing is on its way—and it’s closer than we might have thought. The implications for the current blockchain space could… pic.twitter.com/Q26InD5QG2
Agglayer v0.2 testnet is now live! 🎉
Polygon Team shared the news and added that the mainnet launch is coming very soon.
Check out the repo as well as the quick roadmap update in the linked tweet. Exciting updates from a great team. Congrats!
Agglayer v0.2 testnet is now live!
— Polygon (※,※) (@0xPolygon) December 19, 2024
Here’s a quick roadmap update:
✅ Devnet - deployed
✅ Testnet - live today!
🔜 Mainnet - coming early 2025
v0.2 introduces the first-ever implementation of pessimistic proofs, key to unifying EVM chains through @Agglayer, regardless of…
Introducing OpenVM, by Axiom. ⚡
It's a performant and modular zkVM framework built for customization and extensibility.
OpenVM was designed in collaboration with Scroll and individual contributors.
Read the full announcement here.
We're excited to announce OpenVM, a performant and modular zkVM framework built for customization and extensibility.
— Axiom (@axiom_xyz) December 16, 2024
OpenVM introduces a novel modular design allowing developers to extend the ISA, ZK circuits, and proof system in one unified framework. pic.twitter.com/SGmbrBeFCX
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