ZK-News: December 30th, '24-January 5th, '25
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨
Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from December 30th '24 to January 5th '25.
Alignoors, we present 'Aligned, by Numbers': A recap of the last 10 months. 🚀
Here, you will find data on:
✅ Our performance.
✅ Audits.
✅ Partnerships.
✅ Talks.
✅ Hackathons.
✅ Operators.
We couldn't be more grateful to everyone who made this possible.
This is just the beginning!
Stay Aligned and send proofs!
You know, we love numbers.
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) January 2, 2025
Let’s take a quick look at how many figures we packed into the past 10 months.
Warning: Some of these numbers might already be higher by the time you finish reading this thread.
Please enjoy: Aligned, by numbers. pic.twitter.com/QTrNdqGxhV
Mina shared an article about their plans for 2025. 💜
The article, written by Evan Shapiro, co-founder of Mina, provides details about its goals: supporting core protocol development, onboarding new use cases, applications, and users onto the network.
Exciting plans are on the horizon for Mina in 2025!
Happy New Year! 🥂
— Mina Protocol (httpz) 🪶 (@MinaProtocol) January 1, 2025
ICYMI: Here’s a blog post from co-founder @evanashapiro on what’s to come in 2025 – things like bridges, DEXes, private voting apps, verifiable data (zkPassport, zkTLS, zkEmail) and so much more.https://t.co/A5RLIcHsZQ
Ingonyama announced ICICLE v3.3! ⚡
ICICLE is a cryptography library designed to accelerate zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs).
Check out the changes in this release. Congrats to the team!
ICICLE V3.3 is out 🧊
— Ingonyama (@Ingo_zk) January 2, 2025
highlights:
1. large field NTT is now on par with Arkworks
2. KoalaBear support (thanks @0xPolygon !)
Release Notes: https://t.co/NK9McZ0fv6
Developer Docs: https://t.co/tZcNnxY0sS
Research grants: https://t.co/YbWF7KZjfR pic.twitter.com/XT4TrpTR6V
Conway's Game of Life for Valida, by Lita. 💻
This is a program that plays Conway's Game of Life and proves the execution of the computation in Valida.
A very interesting example to help familiarize yourself with Valida!
Conway's Game of Life in Valida (Try ↓)
— Lita (@0xLita) January 2, 2025
What game should we build with our zkVM stack? pic.twitter.com/viOGvfdIAM
Stay tuned: 🐦 Twitter | 🗨️ Telegram | 👾 Discord | 🌐 Website | 📝 Manifesto
