ZK-News - December 2nd-8th, '24

Carlos Lira

09 Dec 2024 — 1 min read

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from December 2nd to 8th, '24.

Prove your Alignment: The Aligned Foundation made an important announcement of thanks to multiple developers, engineers, and researchers. 🚀

The Alignment begins! Check your eligibility for a future claim.

Things are moving really fast. Keep in mind that Aligned is just 9 months old. What will we do over the next 9 months?

Stay tuned for announcements coming soon.

All the information in the linked post.

https://x.com/AlignedFndn/status/1865284878272492027

New Data for Aligned: Amount of ETH Securing the Network. 🎉

Alignoors, after the exciting announcement last week, Aligned's ZK verification layer – mainnet beta – is live on Ethereum, we now have data on the amount of ETH backing the network.

More than 660K ETH are securing Aligned!

It’s a huge achievement, and we are very grateful to everyone who made this possible.

SEND MORE PROOFS!

https://x.com/rj_aligned/status/1865093820888580289

O1 Labs shared its Roadmap for 2025. ⚡

This Roadmap is a collaborative vision shaped with the Mina community.

It captures ideas that outline how they are prioritizing the initiatives to move closer to what they think Mina can ultimately become.

Very interesting priorities from an amazing team.

https://x.com/o1_labs/status/1864395173087838684

Nexus needs your help to build a supercomputer for everyone. 🤯

Just as you read it, the goal is to make it possible to reduce the time and resources needed to enable the Verifiable Internet.

Extraordinary initiative, watch the video to understand all the details.

https://x.com/NexusLabs/status/1864716369486581790

The Rollup presented a fantastic episode with Alex Gluchowski from ZKsync: Can Elastic Chain solve Crypto’s Biggest Problem? 📢

In this episode, they dive into Elastic Chain and the core principles of ZK technology.

It perfectly explains how Elastic Chain is built on a powerful premise where scalability, interoperability, and user experience can coexist seamlessly.

Highly recommended.

https://x.com/therollupco/status/1864049112183603601

Rewarding the loyal ones with a tsunami of $ALIGN tokens

Backing those who were still there when things turned grey. The Aligned Foundation will be allocating a significant portion of the total $ALIGN supply to token holders of Mina, EigenLayer, and pioneering Ethereum zk L2s. More specifically, to those that continued to hold, even at the lowest point. No matter

The Aligned Foundation pledges 1.5% of $ALIGN to Protocol Guild

We are excited to announce that the Aligned Foundation has pledged 1.5% of the $ALIGN token supply to the Protocol Guild. With this pledge, we affirm our commitment to Ethereum and to supporting the ecosystem’s continued development and long-term sustainability. 📣We invite you to join us for an

The Alignment tide isn’t stopping: fourth wave of Alignment

It’s been a few weeks since we released the mainnet beta of our Proof Verification Layer, allowing users and developers to benefit from lower verification costs on Ethereum. After 9 months of work, testnets, audits, improvements to telemetry and reliability, the Aligned Foundation wants to thank the community and

ZK-News - December 9th-15th, '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from December 9th to 15th, '24. Another Big Announcement from the Aligned Foundation: Presenting $ALIGN Tokenomics and Roadmap. 🚀 Alignoors, there's definitely no rest for the Alignment. In the past few weeks, we've had:

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