Aligned

there’s no stopping tokenization

how many vendors does it take to ship one product on Ethereum?

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the art of building institutions. on Ethereum, the rules are code.

most crypto wallets ask users to memorize 12 random words. with Aligned’s Wallet-as-a-Service, your users get an Ethereum wallet the moment they sign up. they open it with Face ID, keep their own key, and Aligned covers the fees.

built to align.

every zkVM gets asked how fast it is, but the harder question is how sure you are its rules are right. Lambda VM is the zkVM we’re building with @class_lambda and @3miLabs to answer those questions.

there’s no stopping tokenization

every ZK proof verified on Ethereum pays its own gas. Aligned’s Proof Aggregation turns many proofs into one, so they share the bill.

if your users need to understand crypto, you already lost them. the whole job of a good backend is to be invisible.

yes, we are seeing the same thing

Why is a STARK post-quantum? Because it's just hashes. And that's the catch: the hash is the whole security story, and the biggest cost in recursion. A thread on what kinds there are and why picking one is harder than it looks 🧵

Each project made its own call. SP1 and RISC Zero use Poseidon2 for commitments and recursion. Stwo commits with Blake2s and pays for it in recursion, and ZisK, on Poseidon today, is adding a BLAKE3 path. Ethereum's leanVM went further: a traditional hash over binary fields.

Lambda VM (built with @class_lambda and @3miLabs) is on Keccak today, and it isn't a final answer. We're working on making recursion faster, and that has us experimenting with different hashes, algebraic ones included. The longer version, with how each kind works inside, is in the post: