1/ In the last few weeks, we've seen several significant updates from the
@Aleph__Zero
ecosystem.
With identity and DeFi taking center stage, we're preparing to enable an environment that goes all-in on an amazing user experience.
Let's dive in! 🌊
Early last week, we've finalized the prototype of a new, user-friendly $AZERO wallet. We prioritize security and simplicity of use.
Once developed and audited, the
@Aleph__Zero
wallet will be accessible as a browser extension, with web dashboard and mobile coming up afterward.
The
@Aleph__Zero
development team is in the last stages of optimizing staking before the mainnet launch. We're looking forward to deploying this feature and bringing more utility to $AZERO!
We've just launched staking on the
@Aleph__Zero
testnet.
If everything goes well, you'll be able to stake your $AZERO on the mainnet in four weeks.
Please note that as with all new releases, we're prioritizing security—and some delays might occur in this case.
We'll be pushing staking to
@Aleph__Zero
testnet in a few days. The team is also finalizing a few other upgrades at the moment.
After the testnet update, our process requires at least four weeks of uninterrupted operation to ensure a secure launch on the mainnet.
If you're from
#Ukraine
and need any type of assistance with transport, accommodation, or legal matters — let us know.
We'll be honored to help you directly, through our network, or by putting you in touch with relevant organizations.
Some of our community members have been asking how much $AZERO is needed in order to keep a wallet alive.
The number is 👉 0,0000000005 $AZERO (500 picoAZERO).
The very first
@Aleph__Zero
Ambassadors have already been chosen—but we're not done yet as far as the first cohort is concerned! 🚀
Our team is still going over the applications as the number of submissions exceeded our expectations. We'll be providing an update shortly!
Last week,
@Aleph__Zero
won the European Fintech Hackcelerator. By winning the European track, we've become finalists in the Global Fintech Hackcelerator organized by
@MAS_sg
and
@OliverWyman
.
Let's dive a bit deeper into what it means and what the benefits are. 👇
We have no doubts that—thanks to people like
@hus_qy
—the $IOTA team will deliver the Coordicide. Innovative projects oftentimes do not have clear deadlines and operate under the principle of “it’s done when it’s done.” There’s no way around it and we definitely understand it.
Today, we're delighted to welcome Deutsche Telekom (
@mms_Blockchain
) as the new ecosystem partner of
@Aleph__Zero
!
It's the first instance where Telekom established a relationship with a privacy-enhanced public blockchain network. As a starting point, the German…
And we got another one for you!
We discuss important blockchain features like
#decentralization
,
#scalability
, and privacy-preserving solutions like
@Aleph__Zero
in our interview "How does the blockchain of the future look like?"
Read it to learn more!
🚀 Today, we're introducing 1USD — the first native stablecoin on Aleph Zero.
1USD is developed by
@Archblock_
, an organization with a stellar track record in the space. With previous initiatives like
@tusdio
or a16z-backed
@TrueFiDAO
, Archblock's mission is to move…
💵 Meet 1USD–the first native stablecoin on Aleph Zero–built in partnership with
@Archblock_
!
“Stablecoins have become the backbone of the crypto ecosystem, and with 1USD, we're opening the doors to a new era of privacy-enhanced stablecoins that will redefine the way we…
The R&D team has been absolutely incredible these last couple of weeks.
They're working crazy hours to ensure a smooth launch of
@Aleph__Zero
. They run multiple stress tests, set up a new infrastructure—and in the meantime, the $AZERO testnet reached 4'000'000 blocks.
👏
0.00003 AZERO per standard transaction—coming to you with the next
@Aleph__Zero
Mainnet update as we're getting the network ready for more traffic-heavy use cases.
Dive deeper below!
⚙️ Testnet 13.2 Zahir: network usage becomes 10X cheaper!
A single transaction on Aleph Zero costs just 0.0003 AZERO–now, we’re moving that decimal because the transactions have been lowered even further!
This makes the blockchain even more suitable for housing High-Frequency…
We're thrilled to introduce our first privacy-preserving domain, deutschetelekom.azero, powered by
@AZERO_ID
🪪
This innovative domain not only signifies our commitment to privacy but also bolsters identity-based management systems such as , shaping a more…
In June alone:
👉 The ecosystem team received 44 applications to the Aleph Zero grant program;
🔢 14 out of 44 projects were under detailed review;
✒️ Agreements have been signed with 11 out of the 14 projects.
The rest is still in progress. Thank you for being so patient! 🫡
Huge thanks to our investors and the community behind the project for supporting us during the launch day! 👏
It's been a wild ride lately, and we're grateful to have all of you in our corner!
More things to come in very near future!
$AZERO
The $AZERO app for
#Ledger
has already been developed thanks to our friends at
@_zondax_
.
Remember that this doesn't mean Ledger availability just yet! We're now proceeding to the testing phase and will be providing updates as we go along.
Public repo:
Aleph Zero is not a parachain, but still nice to see these numbers. 🖤
Aleph Zero is an independent network with a *separate* parachain slot for bridging purposes. We chose this design due to Aleph Zero using AlephBFT (our own consensus protocol) instead of BABE/GRANDPA, which…
RANKING PARACHAINS BY ENGAGEMENTS IN 7 DAYS
🌟 Dive into the vibrant world of Polkadot's parachains!
Engagement is a critical metric for any project on social networks, and it can have a significant impact in several ways: Visibility and Reach, Community Building, Credibility,…
The most important announcements this year will be happening around key industry conferences, followed by dedicated on-site side events with
@Aleph__Zero
partners. Strap in!
Completely understand the impatience (or rather: the need for speed). We want to see the ecosystem products on the Mainnet as much as you do and are working hard to make it happen. We're really close to the deployments, too!
Please find more insights on the ongoing security…
🔍 The audit of MOST with
@HatsFinance
is in full swing!
MOST–the bridge between Aleph Zero and Ethereum–is a prerequisite to launching Common AMM on the Mainnet. Auditors scan the bridge’s code for any potential vulnerability as we speak.
🛡️ To ensure maximum security, the…
We can now finally disclose that
@Aleph__Zero
has been accepted to the
@substrate_io
Builder's Program. Not only that—we've also concluded the first milestone.
💥
We'll be publishing an in-depth article about this initiative shortly.
$AZERO
The next $AZERO testnet upgrade will see the addition of validator elections as well as refined documentation for setting up the node—we're getting closer to announcing the
@Aleph__Zero
Validators Program.
More details:
It's been a real pleasure working on this—and it would not have happened without the knowledge of multiple amazing humans involved in the process, such as
@GagolAdam
, Michael Kunz,
@PawelKuskowski
,
@matthewniemerg
, and more!
Thank you
@CoinDesk
for the opportunity.
Aleph Zero featured in
@CoinDesk
! 📰
Our own
@AntoniZolciak
and
@GagolAdam
share insights on how open, immutable blockchains can meet regulatory privacy requirements. ✅
Read on:
The article is a part of
#CoinDesk
's "Privacy Week."
👩💻 Aleph Zero joins PKO Bank and the Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs in Degen Hack
Degen Hack is a hackathon and conference organized by
@DegenHouse_
that gathered the support of the largest Polish bank–PKO BP–and Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs.
Among other notable…
You can now easily track the number of Aleph Zero Mainnet validators, the estimated network carbon footprint, and what we're doing about it! 🌲
Check out this new functionality here:
On behalf of the
@Aleph__Zero
team, I've authored an article centered around mainstream privacy solutions.
Kind thanks to
@Blockworks_
for publishing it! ⤵️
Meet a few members of the
@drkvrs
team!
Today, we've worked with Marcin, Lukasz, and Kamil on their roadmap in the
@cardinal_hq
offices in Krakow.
Progress is looking great!
New
@get_common
reveals the broader product strategy, elements of the UI, a simplified roadmap of what to expect in the coming months, and more.
Also, you can monitor the changelog progress over at .
Check it out! ⬇️
🌬 New website just landed at !
📈 Meet Common, the privacy-enhancing DeFi suite that makes your trades safe and efficient.
1️⃣ Aggregated private orders;
2️⃣ Non-custodial, decentralized;
3️⃣ MEV protected.
🪙 Learn more:
Let us not forget that while market availability is important, so is the never-ending building mode. 🦾
We'd like to announce that the Aleph Zero smart contracts are now live on the Aleph Zero Smartnet. 🚀
Learn more:
$AZERO
Amazing presentations from the hackathon projects today. Really surprised by the high quality and maturity of the submissions!
Kudos for building on
@Aleph__Zero
and
@ink_lang
!
Results will be revealed on February 5th -- after our judges have had some time to think! 👏
Our dev team is working on something that will help
#Solidity
developers better understand
@Aleph__Zero
, the
@substrate_io
stack, and ink! smart contracts. Release planned for 2-3 weeks from now.
We're happy to announce that
@Aleph__Zero
Ambassador Program will launch on January 18th, 2022.
We've been fortunate enough to have a wonderful community and are looking forward to further exploring those relationships.
Exciting times ahead!
👉
$AZERO
We're excited to see
@Aleph__Zero
featured in the latest
@TheBlock__
Research publication focused on privacy-enhancing blockchain projects. Bear in mind that the content is behind a paywall though!
CoinGecko x Aleph Zero Learn & Earn 📚→💰
We've partnered with
@Aleph__Zero
on a Learn & Earn campaign! Simply watch, learn, and ace the quiz to win a share of 5000 $AZERO.
1,000 lucky participants will be selected through a raffle.
Join now ➡️
Looking to play around with
#staking
on the testnet?
1⃣ Launch and set up an account.
2⃣ Proceed to .
3⃣ Stake/nominate at .
Remember — it's the testnet, not the mainnet!
In case you'd be wondering what's happening to the $AZERO transfer fees at the moment: they're being burned.
Soon enough though, 20% of the
@Aleph__Zero
transfer fees will be granted to validators, and 80% will return to the treasury.
👏 Our ecosystem builders from
@AZERO_ID
(
@scio_xyz
) have won the Chainlink hackathon grand prize!
@mike1third
,
@dennis_zoma
, and the team are solving one of the hardest hurdles for adoption: onboarding new users in a way that doesn't make the users dream about quitting not only…
Dear validators—thank you all for the swift launch on $AZERO. 👏
@pete_urinsky
and our team will be closely monitoring the network in the next few days. Please expect regular check-ins from our side as we want to learn everything there is to know about your experience so far. ✌️
🔥 AI use cases are coming to Aleph Zero!
Excited to see
@see3xyz
announcing their existence.
We've first come across the team at
@EthCC
last year after they've won the hackathon. It's been a pleasure to observe their growth over the past months.
See3 is embarking on a ZK x…
Our mission is to defend the truth against deepfake disinformation.
We're super proud of our world-class team, and we're excited to deliver on the next phase of our vision.
@UniofOxford
@Cambridge_Uni
@Aleph__Zero
@ben_mcclymans
Thanks for your support Benny. Please note that AZERO is not a privacy coin; the network is transparent by default, confidentiality is optional and gated by AML/CFT/identity products and services that prevent bad actors from making use of private operations.
We aim to achieve…
Besides the native ,
@subwalletapp
is the first to integrate $AZERO staking on a desktop platform via a browser exxtension.
If you were looking for a more user-friendly desktop solution, then SubWallet does a great job.
We're excited to announce that, starting today, you can stake $AZERO via
@subwalletapp
using the browser extension. 🎉
With
@NovaWalletApp
on mobile and SubWallet on desktop, becoming a nominator is now easier than ever!
🇵🇱 This weekend, the largest Polish bank hosts Web3 builders in its offices for Degen Hack.
@PKOBP
has been relentless at pursuing and pushing its own ideas for Web3 adoption in Poland.
Really amazing how far we've come.
@DegenHouse_
-- thanks for putting this event together!
.
@Aleph__Zero
's refreshed, more detailed roadmap is now online on the homepage as well as on a dedicated subpage 👉
With time, we'll also add a discussion forum for specific deliverables as well as a subsection on Liminal.
What do you think?
$AZERO
🤩 Congrats to our protocol lead
@realnimish
& his team to the 1st place (defi track) in the
@Polkadot
Hackathon Global Series with a fractional NFT lending protocol 🚀
Also congrats to our friends from
@ArtZero_io
for winning the
@ink_lang
track! 🔥
#DotSocial
We're structuring our Developer Relations team at the moment with one goal in mind: make it as easy as possible for people to
#buidl
on
@Aleph__Zero
.
Learn more:
Our friends at
@subscan_io
introduced support for nomination pools!
Check it out:
1️⃣
2️⃣
You can now easily see the amount of bonded $AZERO in each pool and the number of pool members. 🔢
👩💻 We're pleased to announce CTRL+Hack+ZK, the first official hackathon organized by Aleph Zero and supported by major partners! 🎉
🗓️ Jan 10-31, 2024
📝 Sign up:
🌪 .
@BlackRock
’s new institutional crypto fund received 0.97 unsolicited ETH via Tornado Cash within hours of launching, potentially creating legal problems for the world’s largest asset manager.
✍️ by
@httpsageyd
🗒 via
@ArkhamIntel
🗞 Read more:
This is *exactly* what we're working towards with
@Aleph__Zero
and it's ZK/MPC-based Liminal, as well as Gatenox. And we really won't stop until it's the best possible on-chain customizable privacy toolkit.
11/ I am hopeful that as an industry we can move in earnest towards more and more activity happening on DeFi and on-chain structures. To do that, we need verifiable crypto-provable identity, as well as dramatically better on-chain privacy tech.
👩💻 Solidity on Aleph Zero – start using it today!
While
@ink_lang
is the default language for writing smart contracts on the Aleph Zero L1, it’s not the only option for developers. Today, we’re bringing your attention to Solang and its compatibility with Aleph Zero!
So if…
The process can be transparent—at the same time, the data that is involved in the process can remain private.
Happy to see
@Aleph__Zero
's
@GagolAdam
presenting his stance on applications of ZKP and MPC in an article at
@Cointelegraph
.
Achieving privacy in crypto should not require clunky workarounds, shady tools or deep expertise of complex cryptography but should be simple for users, argues a mathematician and cryptographer.
The
@Aleph__Zero
Signer is now available as an add-on for
@firefox
.
Kudos to Mozilla and our product teams for coming to an agreement regarding the privacy policy (Signer doesn't collect or send any data anywhere) and getting this off the ground! 👏
.
@NovaWalletApp
's Anton Khvorov pitching their beautiful wallet to the
#PolkadotDecoded
audience in Berlin.
The team was kind enough to include the
@Aleph__Zero
$AZERO staking integration as one of the examples of the work they did in Q2. 🤝
Fast forward to today, and the
@interlockweb3
security browser extension, ThreatSlayer, is at ~40,000 users!
After Interlock goes live on the
@Aleph__Zero
Mainnet, all ThreatSlayer users can connect their wallets to join the incentivized ILOCK security program.
Progress! 🔥
The security implications of self sovereignty in Web3 are an impossible burden for most users…
ThreatSlayer is a simple browser extension that adds you to join am army of 20k users to crowdsource threats and earn as you go 🎯
Super excited for this one!
It's been an absolutely crazy year for
@matthewniemerg
,
@GagolAdam
, Michał Świętek, myself, and our entire team.
Very excited for what's yet to come for $AZERO.
Testnet and Mainnet hotfix deployed! 🧑🚒
Dear validators — please update your nodes to the latest r-9.1-mainnet. 🪄
You can find more details on our Discord:
It's been a pleasure to participate in another
@CoinDesk
roundtable—this time during the
#Metaverse
Week.
@DanielGKuhn
, thank you for the opportunity!
Thread.
Whenever we're discussing transaction speeds in different chains, it's super important to provide the context as well as the benchmarking environments.
It's even more important to focus not only on TPS but on the time to finality (i.e. latency).
A note on this, as we've seen a number of posts interpreting this news as Aleph Zero's EVM compatibility — Solang is about compiling Solidity into
@ink_lang
, but it doesn't make Aleph Zero fully EVM-compatible.
It primarily makes it easier for Solidity developers to onboard…
👩💻 Solidity on Aleph Zero – start using it today!
While
@ink_lang
is the default language for writing smart contracts on the Aleph Zero L1, it’s not the only option for developers. Today, we’re bringing your attention to Solang and its compatibility with Aleph Zero!
So if…
Very much excited to see $AZERO partners at
@CLSTofficial
close their seed round! 🎉
The team led by Michael Guzik (
@Guschi87
), our
@Aleph__Zero
advisor, is definitely one to watch in the space.
More:
There's a community-made graphic circling around that's comparing the TPS and latency of:
-
@Aleph__Zero
consensus implementation tests
- Solana testnet
- Hashgraph mainnet
- Cosmos mainnet
All in different stages and with different network load.
Not the way to go about it.
@Ethan_H343
@Aleph__Zero
@alephzero_japan
We're preparing to enter the market, and a localized Twitter account is a must for Japan! The local team is being assembled at the moment.
The Japan trip has been one of the most productive ones we've taken — just remembered that I still need to post an update about it!
In case you haven't seen it yet, we've launched a completely redesigned
@Aleph__Zero
blog:
👉
The mission remains the same: publish high-quality articles about $AZERO and the broader industry.
P.S.: There's a dark/light mode in the article view! 😉
The hackathon Telco track is a really cool opportunity to come up with interesting
#DePIN
ideas! 🦾
With
@stc_bhr
,
@mms_Blockchain
, and
@Telefonica_En
as hackathon partners, you can think of building PoC use cases incentivizing the deployment and use of value-generating…
📣 Meet the CTRL+Hack+ZK hackathon partners!
📱
@stc_bhr
is a key telecom player in the Middle East that has been significantly involved in the digitization of the region. Participating in the Telecom track!
👋 Register now to pitch your idea in January:
The Aleph Zero team:
✖️Didn't set up any OTC group;
✖️Does not operate any OTC group;
✖️Will not set up nor operate any OTC market.
All existing OTC groups are being run and/or operated by community members.
Please be extra careful when dealing with OTC markets.
$AZERO
Great to see the ink!Hub proposal with majority of "ayes" for the time being!
Thanks to everyone supporting this initiative. 🙌
Vote is ongoing via OpenGov:
🛠️ Aleph Zero has teamed up with
@AstarNetwork
and
@PhalaNetwork
to co-create ink!Hub—a set of tools that will streamline the ink! development process, benefiting every project in the broader
@ink_lang
ecosystem.
🗳️ Support the proposal:
Say hello to
@CoinSender
! 👋
Once integrated with
@Aleph__Zero
, CoinSender will address several challenges in two major sectors: enterprise and Web3.
For the first one, it'll help with crypto/fiat accounting, tax, and payroll processes automation.
In the Web3 sector,…
We are pleased to announce that we have received an integration support from Aleph Zero Foundation as part of the Ecosystem Finance Programme (EFP)!🤩
#AlephZero
#CoinSender
.
@ETHWarsaw
and the opening
@Aleph__Zero
event are almost here!
Humbled to see multiple ecosystem teams and partners working on different activities, preparing demos, and showcasing the best features of their products ahead of their Mainnet launches. 🦾
Want to catch up on what's been happening during the last four weeks at Aleph Zero? ⛓️
Check out the latest blog article to learn about the progress on smart contracts, the conferences we visited, and the partnerships we've established!
👉
$AZERO
Blockchain's "speed" in the context of differences between transactions per second (throughput), time to finality, and latency.
Which one is the most important?
👉
$azero
Last week,
@EUBlockchain
released a report focused on blockchain applications in healthcare.
@Aleph__Zero
's
@matthewniemerg
co-authored the document.
If you didn't read it yet, or are just looking for a tl;dr, you can find a short summary on our blog: