✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 19th - 25th August.

Alignoors! Last week we had our first Community Call and it was a huge success! ✅

We're thrilled that over 1000 users on Discord joined us.

Huge thanks to our amazing hosts: Geeny, from our ecosystem team, and our co-founder and Head of Research, Diego Kingston.

Starknet v0.13.2 is live on Testnet! 🐺

It brings Parallel Execution, where unrelated transactions can be executed simultaneously.

This topic was discussed by:

✅ Ilia Volokh and Noa from StarkWare.

✅ And Rati Gelashvili and Alexander Spiegelman from Aptos.

Details below:

Mina posted a video about why building on Mina is different. 💜

It presents a new paradigm with many opportunities.

Mina gives you:

✅ Off-chain computation.

✅ Decentralization.

✅ Scalability.

✅ And the ability to verify the network in a single proof.

Mina announced that its fungible Token Standard has been audited. 💜

This allows for adding more complex use cases to the Mina Ecosystem.

It's exciting to think about all the potential use cases and integrations with zkApps.

Aave announced the launch of Aave V3 on Era Mainnet powered by ZKsync. 🎉

Users of Aave will gain access to advanced ZK technology that provides low-cost transactions while deriving security from Ethereum.

Read on to learn more.

Introducing ZK on Solana, powered by RISC Zero. ✅

This is a significant step forward for ZK in the ecosystem.

It's exciting to see how this technology is spreading everywhere, unlocking multiple use cases.

Could this be the next generation of Solana dApps?

In an amazing paper, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen and Gregor Seiler proposed Greyhound, a polynomial commitment scheme from standard lattice assumptions.

🔹 It requires no trusted setup.

🔹 And it relies on the Module-SIS assumption.

It’s a fantastic achievement. Congrats to the authors!

Another ZK Podcast has been released. 📢

Check out this episode where Anna Rose talks to Connor O’Hara from Celestia.

They discussed the latest ZK Hack Montréal event, various ZK-focused initiatives within the Celestia Ecosystem, and more.

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