The Aligned Layer is a decentralized infrastructure designed to improve authentication evidence with zero knowledge. Its aim is to speed up and make the verification of evidence more efficient. At the same time, the project announced the imminent launch of its ALIGN token, accompanied by a community landing.
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- Aligned Layer has revolutionized zero-knowledge authentication with an infrastructure that is faster and more cost-effective than ever before.
- The announcement of the community landing of the ALIGN token created historic anticipation among investors and pioneers of zk-rollups.
Le Journal du Coin brings you this promotional article in collaboration with Aligned Layer.
Aligned layer: optimized proof proofing
As we discussed in the introduction, Aligned Layer is an infrastructure specialized in zero-knowledge proof verification.
“Aligned Layer is a ZK verification layer that can process thousands of transactions per second, 10 times cheaper than Ethereum. »
In practice, these evidences are mainly uses zk-rollupsas well as other DeFi protocols.
However, verifying this evidence has not been an easy task so far. Indeed, the verification of evidence requires intensive calculations that require suitable computing power.
So Aligned Layer wants to solve the proof verification problem. The protocol offers two approaches:
- Fast mode : Operators, also validators of Ethereum re-staking via EigenLayer, will receive proofs, verify them with optimized code, and publish the results on Ethereum after majority validation. This reduces costs and processing time;
- Aggregation mode : Several proofs are grouped into one, compressed and verified on the chain. This process minimizes charges but may increase latency.
Using these two approaches Aligned Layer facilitates zk-rollup adoption by making authentication more accessible and cost-effective.
Last week, the protocol deployed its first beta version on the Ethereum mainnet, marking a significant milestone in its development.
Airdrop for holders
On Wednesday, December 18, the Aligned Layer teams revealed first details about the ALIGN token drop. Specifically, the ALIGN token will be used to pay for proof-of-concept verifications performed by the infrastructure. One can also bet on using an authentication system through a subscription mechanism.
For eligibility criteria, Aligned plays the originality card. Indeed, the Aligned Foundation has decided to allocate a significant portion of $ALIGN token supply for Mina token holders, EigenLayer and zk-rollup pioneers on Ethereum. And more precisely to those who continued to hold even when the price of these tokens was at its lowest.
To be eligible, users had to hold at least $50 from the token of the given project at the lowest price in history. In practice, these are tokens Mina (MINA), Starknet (STARK), Polygon (POL), EigenLayer (EIGEN), ZKSync (ZK), Scroll (SCROLL) as well as Taiko (TAIKO).
In total, ALIGN has a supply of 10 billion tokens, of which just a little over 2 billion are distributed via airdrop. In practice, 1 million addresses would be eligible for this airdrop, according to the announcement.
Attention! As with Hyperliquid, this airdrop requires prior registration.
Go to the website: https://genesis.alignedfoundation.org/ and click “Check Eligibility”. Then follow the registration process by connecting your wallet and signing the necessary consents.
The registration process closes on December 23rd at 23:59, so don’t miss out!
On the tokenomics side, Aligned Layer seems to want to emphasize community, as shown by the token distribution:
- Ecosystem and Community: 44%
- Foundation: 10%
- Team: 23.5%
- Investors: 22.5%
So don’t forget to register in advance so you don’t miss this drop. The exact date of the landing has not yet been announced.