what's Aligned Layer?
Aligned Layer is a blockchain infrastructure project that provides a universal proof verification and aggregation layer designed to enhance Ethereum's scalability and efficiency. It enables developers to verify zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs on Ethereum at significantly reduced costs—less than 10% of traditional verification—while maintaining high security through integration with EigenLayer's restaking mechanism. The protocol operates as a decentralized network of operators across multiple countries, processing thousands of proofs per second and supporting various proof systems to facilitate ZK-powered applications like rollups and bridges. By acting as an intermediary settlement layer, Aligned Layer addresses fragmentation in the Ethereum ecosystem, offering soft finality for faster transaction confirmations and bridging liquidity across chains. It includes features like Fast Mode for rapid verification and plans for aggregation layers to batch proofs, reducing on-chain gas expenses. Built on Ethereum's principles of decentralization and open development, Aligned Layer aims to make verifiable computation accessible, powering a new generation of trust-minimized internet applications.
Aligned Layer's proof verification costs dropped significantly; Loom Finance integrated for onchain financing.
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Scheduled to appear on The Rollup Co show on 2026-02-11 at 1:10 PM ET.
ZK Arcade officially closes after verifying 5,644 proofs, minting 522 NFTs, and claiming 657.22M points across all rounds, though the website and on-chain leaderboard remain accessible.
Rounds 1-2 reopen for users who couldn't play or submit results due to technical difficulties, with no replay required for those who already completed these rounds.
Proof verification costs drop to $0.0053 per batch of 14 proofs, down from $0.14 per batch of 16 proofs reported in November.
Loom Finance integrates with Aligned Layer to bring Levenue's revenue-backed financing platform onchain, with the technology ready and legal/regulatory work underway for crypto investor access.
Proof verification currently costs $0.14 per batch of 16 proofs on the platform.
An expanded second NFT collection announcement is coming soon to give more players access to participate in upcoming rounds beyond the current early access tier.
Bug fixes resolve previous errors with Parity game progression and Beast proof validation, and a new state reset option enables users to clear errors and restart. Backend infrastructure improvements move game data fetching from public RPCs to the project's own backend for improved stability.
Technical issues affect some users during early access, with bugs in the parity game progression between rounds 2 and 3 and points claiming system currently being addressed by the team.
Launches Proof Aggregation Service demo on Hoodi testnet, showing full workflow from L2 contract deployment through SP1 zkVM proving to on-chain batch verification with ethrex client.
Sovraio implements Aligned Layer with ethrex client and ZK technology to onboard millions of users in Latin America.
Repository released as open source to demonstrate integration of the Proof Verification Layer into applications.
Plans TGE between now and end of year, among dozens of projects attempting token launches in the same period.
Aligned RaaS platform will enable single-click ZK-rollup deployment.
The second round of challenges launches in less than 2 days for early access holders competing on the points leaderboard.
Mainnet is now live and the 700 early access holders can mint their ZK Arcade Ticket NFTs to start playing and earning points.
Loom Finance implements working testnet built on top of Aligned Layer using ethrex client, plans to showcase at EF Devcon with partner benjrieder.
FuzzingLabs code audit has been completed, representing one of the final steps prior to mainnet launch.
Opens Cryptography and Distributed Systems Research Center at University of Buenos Aires (UBA, top 100 global university with 350,000+ students) focused on ZK and Ethereum research, with government representatives, regulators, and banking sector attending the inauguration.
Raffle awards 10 early access whitelist spots for ZK Arcade to Nori testnet participants, announces future waves of access.
115 winners were selected from 20 completed partner raffles, with a total of 700 people now having exclusive early access.
Proof verification costs $0.014 per verification on the platform.
Aligned hackathon participants and bounty winners receive whitelist spots for exclusive early access, with a Friday deadline to submit information or forfeit their spots.
Aligned Layer has entered the final stage of the whitelist process for early access.
Over 1225 people have entered the 19 partner raffles for NFT whitelist spots, with approximately 24 hours remaining before the raffles close.
Over 600 community members were engaged at KBW with 30 Ticket NFT whitelist spots distributed through a raffle, and winners are being announced in a thread.
18 partner raffles go live for exclusive early access to the platform.
ZK Arcade raffle offers 5 whitelist NFTs to Mina community members who participated in nori_zk's Plankton Testnet event.
Nearly 400 people visited the booth at hack.summit Seoul (the biggest KBW side event), where 20 whitelist spots for the Ticket NFT mint were distributed to attendees.
Partnership with Sovraio expands to focus on deploying Digital Trust Stack for digital identity solutions across Latin America and globally.
Announces RaaS platform that vertically integrates ZK verification layer with ethrex_client ZK-rollup stack to enable easy ZK-rollup launches.
ZK ARCADE gaming application launches with NFT ticket minting functionality, utilizing proof generation and submission workflow that verifies on Ethereum through Aligned.
The project introduces its latest demo with brief videos providing an overview of how the NFT ticket mechanism operates, with additional details to be announced soon.
New L2 targeting EFDevcon launch for web2 app with 500k users; partnerships confirmed with Sovraio and Loom Finance protocols running on the stack; two significant investments in Korean companies signal Asia expansion.
Develops Lean Ethereum zkVM with Class Lambda, achieving 5% performance improvement in signature aggregation. Develops RISC-V zkVM with 3mi Labs.
The project announces it is launching soon with 700 Ticket NFT whitelist spots being distributed through more than 30 partners and operators.
Aligned Layer is listed among infrastructure projects planning Token Generation Events in Q4 2024.
The NFT whitelist raffle entries have doubled to over 1000, while the team expanded their KBW presence with booths at multiple venues, speaking engagements, and hosted a private dinner with Korean KOLs.
KBW Day 2 has concluded with strong community turnout, and NFT whitelist raffle announcements are scheduled for next week.
Over 500 participants have entered the KBW Day 1 raffle for 15 of 700 available NFT whitelist spots, with the project maintaining a physical booth at Korea Blockchain Week.
CEO presents at Hack.Summit in Seoul, highlighting full stack institutional and enterprise solutions for Ethereum.
A new alignment session on September 15th at 3pm UTC will include engineering updates and raffle 5 NFTs to participants.
An alignment session is scheduled for Thursday September 11th at 4pm UTC that will cover how to win whitelist spots for the project. The session will also include project and engineering updates.
New testnet deployment with ethrex_client planned within weeks, concurrent with regulatory compliance work.
New RWA and DeFi primitive launching soon with accompanying whitepaper from platform partner.
New partnerships with ZiskVM and 0xLita ZKVMs in development, expanding beyond existing RiscZero and Succinct Labs integrations, while preparing whitepaper release for Real World Asset L2 solutions.
Proof verification cost now at $0.20 per proof, offering 94% savings versus $3.50 EVM direct verification.
Whitepaper release scheduled for next week, with engineering by Class Lambda and token design by PolFinance, incorporating zkTLS features. Two major partnerships in negotiation.
ZK proof verification costs increase to $0.067 per 16-proof batch, reflecting a 109% price change from previous rates.
ZK proof verification service operates at $0.032 per 15-proof batch.
New partnership with Ethrex client announced for ZK-based rollups as a service implementation within the stablecoin infrastructure stack.
New term sheet closed at EthCC for revenue-based financing rollup with testnet launching in coming months.
Full infrastructure stack launches with five key products including ZK verification, rollup services, and wallet solutions.
New partnerships established with PolFinance for DeFi primitives and RWA projects, while identity stack implementation goes live across multiple Latin American countries.
Partners with Sovra to provide full infrastructure stack for institutional digital trust solutions.
New partnership with Giza announced to develop zkML capabilities for onchain agents.
Protocol Guild receives 1.5% allocation of $ALIGN token supply to support core protocol development.
New collaboration with Class Lambda demonstrates working Ethrex L2 integration with proof verification system.
New integration of RiscZero's R0VM enables proof verification through system to Ethereum, demonstrated in live demo.
Updates coming in upcoming days. Deal being closed to buy VCs wanting to exit.
Rewarding Starknet community. Registration deadline in 5 days and 13 hours.
9 months of development mentioned, enables proof verification for 2000 gas with billion-dollar stake backing.