# Aligned Monthly Recap - August '24

**Published by:** [Aligned](https://paragraph.com/@aligned-3/)
**Published on:** 2024-08-30
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@aligned-3/aligned-monthly-recap-august-24

## Content

This month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned. 🎉 Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights! ✅ New partnerships. ✅ Spaces, podcast, community call. ✅ Events. ✅ Educational videos. ✅ Technical material. Enjoy! ✅ Let’s start with our new Partnerships. Aligned Partnerships Recap: 023 -> Orbiter Finance. Vizing is an omni interoperability environment built on advanced ZK technology, powered by Orbiter Finance. Excited to provide it with fast and efficient proof verification. Aligned @alignedlayer #AlignedPartnerships: 023 @Orbiter_Finance is aligned. Orbiter Finance is a decentralized cross-rollup bridge that offers low cost and almost instant transfers. Aligned will provide Orbiter Finance’s new ZK rollup, Vizing, with fast and cheap proof verification. 25 1:00 PM • Aug 1, 2024 Aligned Partnerships Recap: 024 -> Paima Studios. We’re thrilled to be working with Paima Studios. Fast and cheap proof verification of game state, on EVM, by Aligned. Paima Studios @PaimaStudios Excited to be working with @alignedlayer for ZK verification! It will be a crucial role not just for @ClickAndMoo , but it will also help connect multiple parts of the Paima stack together Glad to be aligned Aligned @alignedlayer The Aligned Ecosystem now has 24 partners. These partnerships demonstrate the wide-ranging utility of our decentralized ZK verification layer. Below, we categorized our ecosystem based on each partner's main focus. #AlignedPartnershipRewind 8 8:12 AM • Aug 2, 2024 Aligned Partnerships Recap: 025 -> Phala Network. We are delighted to partner with Phala Network to ensure their users have access to the cheapest and fastest TEE attestation verifications possible. Aligned expanding its ability as an integrity layer: from ZK to TEE. Aligned @alignedlayer #AlignedPartnership: 025 @PhalaNetwork is aligned Aligned provides fast & cost effective attestation verification services. Now partnering with Phala’s TEE network, Aligned expands its ability as an integrity layer: from ZK to TEE. 60 11:47 AM • Aug 19, 2024 Aligned Partnerships Recap: 026 -> Versatus. Versatus is building the decentralized cloud computing platform of the future, to ensure secure deployment of dApps. We’re working together to give devs the best tools to create the future of internet and crypto. Aligned @alignedlayer #AlignedPartnership: 026 @VersatusLabs is aligned. We’re teaming up to give developers the tools they need to build the decentralized and verifiable applications of the future. 24 11:00 AM • Aug 22, 2024 ✅ Let’s continue with the Spaces and Podcasts offered this month. 🔹 Space with NodeKit and Union. It was an amazing X Space with our partners, where we discussed the interoperability problem in crypto and how ZK can help solve it. Aligned @alignedlayer x.com/i/spaces/1yoKM… 31 11:54 AM • Aug 20, 2024 🔹 Space with Versatus and Opacity Network. We hosted a fantastic Space today about The Stack for a Decentralized Future. It was a really interesting conversation that we highly recommend listening to! Aligned @alignedlayer This Friday, we will be hosting an X Space with @VersatusLabs and @OpacityNetwork on the stack for a decentralized future. Meet us here at 4 PM UTC: x.com/i/spaces/1DXxy… 29 10:16 AM • Aug 27, 2024 🔹 Space with Phala Network and Ternoa. Listen to it and deep dive into real-world use cases of TEEs. Spoiler: The special guest was Diego Kingston. 😉 Phala @PhalaNetwork Phala #60DaysofTEE campaign rolls on with more valuable content! Get ready for the 2nd Twitter Space and dive into real-world use cases of #TEEs with our partner @Ternoa_ and a special guest! If you’re curious about how #TEEs are powering web3 product implementation, this 108 11:30 AM • Aug 28, 2024 🔹 Our co-founder and Head of Research Diego Kingston was on The Rollup! It presents a fascinating discussion about ZKVMs and Proof Verification. Watch the stream below to learn more about these exciting topics. The Rollup @therollupco ZKVMs and Proof Verification with @ZKVProtocol, @RiscZero, @ProjectZKM and @alignedlayer x.com/i/broadcasts/1… 63 9:38 AM • Aug 29, 2024 🔹 We’re pleased that over 1000 users on Discord joined us in our first Community Call! 🎉 It was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who joined. We're happy to have connected with so many of you and answered your questions. Aligned @alignedlayer Thank you to the 1000+ Discord members who joined our first community call today! If you listened to the call for over ten minutes, you can claim a proof of attendance NFT through @Galxe and @0xPolygon below. We'll see you in the next call in two weeks time! 73 12:52 PM • Aug 21, 2024 ✅ Let’s review the highlights of the events. 🔹 As part of our activities at @crecimientoar, our co-founder and Head of Research Diego Kingston gave a talk about 'Intro and current state of ZK with Aligned'. Aligned @alignedlayer Are you in Buenos Aires? Join our co-founder @zkdiegokingston's ZKWeek talk. Details below! Register: lu.ma/78i1pscb?local… Crecimiento 🌞 @crecimientoar @zkdiegokingston de @alignedlayer “Intro and current state of ZK with Aligned” 14:30 hs. Hangar 8, Conde 11, CABA 14 3:36 AM • Aug 20, 2024 🔹 ZK Hack Montreal was incredible! The event took place from August 9th to 11th. We are very happy to have met a lot of Aligned attendees in Montreal. ZK is becoming mainstream. 👀 Aligned @alignedlayer ZK Hack Montreal begins tomorrow, and so does our bounty program! Aligned is contributing to the $53,000 prize pool, and we'll be rewarding the best projects that use Aligned to verify proofs. Find some of our ideas here, but you can build anything! zk-hack-montreal.devfolio.co/prizes?partner… zk-hack-montreal.devfolio.co ZK Hack Montréal | Devfolio On Aug 9-11, we host ZK Hack Montréal, our fourth IRL zk-hackathon. At ZK Hack Montréal, we will be hacking on zk-tools, using zk-DSLs, and building new products that showcase what zk can do. Hackers... 17 10:01 AM • Aug 8, 2024 ✅ Clips taken from podcasts. 🔹 How many proofs we can verify? In this clip, our co-founder Mauro Toscano responds. Aligned is extending the capabilities of Ethereum. ✨ Aligned @alignedlayer How many proofs can we verify?! Just ask @MauroToscanoDev. 22 8:00 AM • Aug 12, 2024 🔹 What problems does Aligned solve? Ethereum wasn’t designed for verification of ZK proofs. We are building this new infrastructure to solve this problem, allowing us to verify a lot of proofs in a very efficient way, and unlocking a wide range of use cases. Aligned @alignedlayer Aligned is a key part of the modular movement to accelerate Ethereum. But where do we fit in, and what problem do we solve? Our founder @thisisrj explains on the @BitcoinSuisseAG podcast. 12 10:00 AM • Aug 26, 2024 🔹 How Aligned is redefining proof verification? No blocks, no chain. Our co-founders Mauro Toscano and Roberto Catalán explained to us why Aligned doesn’t need to have blocks to verify proofs. Aligned @alignedlayer No blocks, no chain. Just a dedicated, decentralized, zk-proof verification layer. Listen to our founders @thisisrj and @maurotoscanodev on @therollupco explaining the benefits of our stateless design. 16 8:03 AM • Aug 9, 2024 ✅ Let’s explore some of the technical content. 🔹 What does a ZK Verification Layer do?This post will help you better understand the mission of Aligned.And why a ZK verification layer is needed. Aligned @alignedlayer Aligned is a ZK verification layer for Ethereum. But what does a ZK verification layer do? Why is it needed? Dive into this thread to learn more! 60 11:10 AM • Aug 12, 2024 🔹 The guide you’ve been waiting for. How to integrate Aligned into your application. Follow these simple three steps to achieve it:Generate your ZK Proof.Write your smart contract.And submit and verify the proof to Aligned. Aligned @alignedlayer Integrating Aligned into your Application: It only takes three simple steps to integrate Aligned into your application, enabling fast and cheap verification for all of the ZK proofs generated inside your system. Let's check the docs and find out how! 32 10:52 AM • Aug 6, 2024 Stay tuned: 🐦 Twitter | 🗨️ Telegram | 👾 Discord | 🌐 Website | 🌌 Galxe | 📝 Manifesto

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