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ZK-News: December 30th, '24-January 5th, '25

Aligned

08 Jan 2025 — 2 min read

✨ 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.

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
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) January 2, 2025

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! 🥂

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
— Mina Protocol (httpz) 🪶 (@MinaProtocol) January 1, 2025

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 🧊

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
— Ingonyama (@Ingo_zk) January 2, 2025

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 ↓)

What game should we build with our zkVM stack? pic.twitter.com/viOGvfdIAM
— Lita (@0xLita) January 2, 2025

Stay tuned: 🐦 Twitter | 🗨️ Telegram | 👾 Discord | 🌐 Website | 📝 Manifesto

ZK Industry News: June 26th to July 2nd, 2025

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK. Here's what happened from June 26th to July 2nd, 2025. Sovra showcased its Digital Trust Stack for governments and institutions Sovra enables seamless, secure identity verification, privacy,

Aligned Monthly Recap - June '2025

The past month has been busy and exciting — check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ► Aligned Suite of Products. ► Alignment Sessions. ► Aligned Guests. ► Blog posts. ► Engineering updates. ► Aligned Suite of Products We presented our full stack of vertically integrated infrastructure to simplify launching, operating, and scaling on

Aligned Engineering Updates - June 23rd - 27th, 2025

This week, the majority of the engineering team's efforts were dedicated to preparing for the release of a new version of Aligned, v0.17.0. Key tasks included updating the version of RISC Zero and integrating Circom into our supported verifiers. These changes have already been merged into

Aligned Yol Haritasındaki Yeni Ürün: Rollup-as-a-Service

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