Blockchain
By James Thorp
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One Stack, No Vendor Juggling. Building on Ethereum has always been messy. A fintech wanting to launch a product typically has to…
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Proof Aggregation Already Live on Mainnet. One piece of the stack that's already running — not just planned — is the Proof Aggregation…
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What's Still Coming. Aligned says more components of the stack will ship before year-end.
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Aligned just launched $ALIGN, its native utility token, on major exchanges. The company bills itself as a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure provider — one place where fintechs…
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The token is an ERC-20 asset with a fixed total supply of 10 billion. At launch, 16% of that supply is circulating.
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Building on Ethereum has always been messy. A fintech wanting to launch a product typically has to stitch together wallets from one vendor, rollup solutions from another,…
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The Wallet-as-a-Service piece is probably the most consumer-facing part of it. Users can sign in with Google or Face ID instead of managing seed phrases and gas fees.
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The Rollup-as-a-Service side is powered by Ethrex, an execution client built in partnership with LambdaClass. That collaboration runs deep.
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One piece of the stack that's already running — not just planned — is the Proof Aggregation Service, which is live on the mainnet alpha.
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That's the core tension Aligned is trying to solve. Ethereum is increasingly seen as the infrastructure layer for serious financial applications — not just DeFi speculation, but…
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The company's stated goal is to make Ethereum the default backend for global financial product development. Big claim.
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Aligned says more components of the stack will ship before year-end. No specific timeline on which pieces or in what order — the source didn't specify.
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Community members can track token distribution details and airdrop eligibility through Aligned's community platform and blog.
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Related: Optimism Redirects 546.9 Million OP Tokens from Airdrops to Strategic Ecosystem Fund
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