Aligned has worked with the best firms in the industry to audit our codebase and will continue to do so on an ongoing basis. These audits help ensure that Aligned is secure and bulletproof. Read our audit reports below.
Aligned has been audited by multiple independent firms.
Our ERC20 smart contracts have been audited by multiple independent firms.
Our full codebase has undergone a public audit competition with Cantina.
No. Aligned is a vertically integrated stack for building applications on a verifiable internet. However, our stack offers one-click solutions for launching Ethereum L2s/ rollups, as well as wallets, and several ZK services.
The Aligned suite of products and services includes: ZK Verification Layer (Proof Verification Layer and Proof Aggregation Service), Rollup-as-a-Service Platform, Meta-Proving Services, Interoperability Protocol, and Wallet-as-a-Service infrastructure.
Verifiable computation allows developers to build applications that help Ethereum scale or even create applications that were not possible before, with enhanced privacy properties and improved performance. ZK is playing a key role in the future of Ethereum at every layer of the protocol, and Aligned helps bring ZK-powered products to market faster.
Aligned's Proof Verification Layer runs the verifier's code natively. The verification time depends on the proof system, program run, and public input. Generally, most verifiers can be run on the order of milliseconds (ms) on consumer-end hardware. By running native verifiers, we can leverage parallelization and optimize the code for speed. Aligned's Proof Verification Layer (on mainnet since December 2024) can currently verify more than 2500 proofs per second.
Ethereum runs on top of the EVM. Each Ethereum block is limited to 45,000,000 gas. Since the most efficient proof systems take at least 250,000 gas to verify, Ethereum can only verify up to 180 proofs per block. Aligned runs verifiers natively and leverages parallelization, allowing 30,000 proofs to be verified per block.
Aligned provides proof aggregation as part of its Proof Aggregation Service, a feature shared with all aggregation layers. However, Aligned offers a unique Proof Verification Layer designed to provide cheap and low-latency proof verification, secured by restaked ETH.
Aligned's Proof Verification Layer is designed to offer very affordable verification, low latency, and high throughput. It uses crypto-economic guarantees provided by restaking; costs can be as low as 2100 gas. Our Proof Aggregation Service uses recursive proof aggregation, inheriting the complete cryptographic security of Ethereum, but with slightly higher fees and latency. We verify an aggregated BLS signature (around 113,000 gas) in our Proof Verification Layer. We verify an aggregated proof (around 300,000 gas) in our Proof Aggregation Service. Together, these two services form our ZK verification layer which offers developers different options for reducing proof verification costs on Ethereum, depending on their scale and security requirements.
Yes, Aligned is 100% open-source from day one. You can check our repo and other frequently asked questions in our GitHub repo and documentation below.