Are You Aligned? Proof Verification Layer And Token Genesis

Alpha news from Aligned Foundation, and a new airdrop for Ethereum OGs! They are aligned with true believers, and invited us to register for the $ALIGN genesis! This is good news for $STRK, $MINA, $ZK, $POL, $SCR, $TAIKO and $EIGEN holders. If you own/owned any of these tokens at their lowest price you are lucky!

Aligned is rewarding the most loyal people in the Cryptoverse, and the Genesis Drop will share almost 1 million $ALIGN to tsunami of $ALIGN to 891,322 addresses that held tokens from different ecosystem at their all-time lows!

What's Align? Just a state-of-the-art protocol that verifies ZK proofs in Ethereum for 10% of the costs. Currently it can verify 1000 proofs per second, and can scale to even more when an upgrade will be needed!

We know that the future of crypto is going to be built with ZK, and the Aligned Protocol hopes that the Proofs will be verified in Aligned. $ALIGN is a key part of Aligned’s Proof Verification Layer’s design. The token is an Ethereum Mainnet ERC-20 token and will have a total supply of 10 billion, with 30% in circulation at launch.

$ALIGN powers Aligned’s Proof Verification Layer with two main uses: payments for verification and network security. Two different payment modes exist, to provide users with flexible options: Payment For Proof Of Verification or Dual Staking.

Aligned develops products to reduce costs and latency in verifiable computation, and to boost blockchain throughput using ZK technology. Our first product, the Proof Verification Layer, is built as an AVS on EigenLayer and cuts verification costs while increasing throughput. I think 2025 will be better!

A total of 44% of the $ALIGN supply is being allocated to the ecosystem and community. The Aligned Foundation will dedicate resources to initiatives that foster the ecosystem and acknowledge the contributions of the Aligned community, as well as the broader Ethereum, blockchain, and zk ecosystems.

The development of Aligned would have not been possible without the pioneering work of engineers and researchers working on ZK and blockchain technologies, along with the support of their communities. I have no idea which wave it was when I checked my eligibility but who cares!

I checked my eligibility and I was happy to see there's 1626 $ALIGN reserved for me for being a zkSync veteran! Nothing for $POL, even if I am holding $MATIC since 2020. Or maybe I had to upgrade them to $POL when the migration happened? Again.. who cares!