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

Carlos Lira

16 Dec 2024 — 1 min read

✨ 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:

✅ Our Mainnet Beta launch.

✅ Announcements about eligibility for the airdrop.

🔹 Wave 1: https://genesis.alignedfoundation.org

🔹 Wave 2: https://genesis.discord.alignedfoundation.org

🔹 Wave 3: https://genesis.galxe.alignedfoundation.org

🔹 Wave 4: Allocation to Protocold Guild, L2BEAT, and ZachXBT

✅ And now we have tokenomics information.

Check out the post to learn about supply, token distribution, utility, and more.

https://x.com/AlignedFndn/status/1866992639570276690

Attention Starknet community: a new Garaga release is out! 🐺

Garaga is SNARKs and cryptographic tooling for Cairo and Starknet.

This release brings performance improvements and full support for Noir proofs.

https://x.com/GaragaStarknet/status/1866066987451039788

A new version of Cairo is here! 🎉

v2.9.0 of Cairo, that Turing-complete language that allows you to write provable programs without requiring a deep understanding of the underlying ZK concepts, was recently released!

Read on to learn what changes were made. Remember that Cairo is also the smart contract language of Starknet. 😉

https://x.com/CairoLang/status/1866062724540649972

Groth16 using ICICLE on Android (ARM), by Ingonyama. ⚡

Ingonyama shared this amazing resource.

Check out the examples and benchmarks they’ve provided.

Such interesting work by Ingonyama. Congratulations!

https://x.com/Ingo_zk/status/1866211311379489072

Introducing Lova: A Lattice-Based Folding Scheme from Unstructured Lattices. 🤯

This impressive work was presented by Duc Tu Pham, Giacomo Fenzi, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, and Christian Knabenhans.

One important point to note is that most folding schemes known rely on the hardness of the discrete logarithm problem, which is not quantum-resistant. Unlike that approach, this alternative relies on the (unstructured) SIS assumption.

It's exciting to see how lattice-based cryptography has been developing recently. Congratulations to the authors for this outstanding work.

https://x.com/GiacomoFenzi/status/1866133436924113087

Rewarding the loyal ones with a tsunami of $ALIGN tokens

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Rewarding the loyal ones with a tsunami of $ALIGN tokens

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