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Aligned, a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure project, has launched $ALIGN, the native token of its ecosystem, with listings now live on major exchanges. Aligned’s mission is ambitious: to turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend — with its ecosystem serving as the single integration fintechs, institutions, and enterprises use to build financial products on Ethereum.
The Problem Aligned Is Solving
Less than 1% of the world’s assets are onchain today, and most of what has moved sits on Ethereum as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and wrapped assets. Yet building on top of them remains harder than it should be.
A fintech going onchain typically has to sign with multiple vendors — one for wallets, another for scalability solutions like rollups and proving systems — then spend months wiring them together and keeping them in sync. There is still no standard way to ship a financial product on Ethereum.
Aligned Was Built to Fix That
Aligned brings wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services together into a single integrated stack. It’s built in close collaboration with LambdaClass — a company behind key contributions across the Ethereum ecosystem, including work on Starknet, zkSync, Polygon Miden, and EigenCloud (formerly EigenLayer), as well as Ethrex (the execution client powering Aligned’s Rollup-as-a-Service) and lambdaworks, a Rust cryptography library.
 
By integrating with Aligned, developers can access everything they need to build financial products on Ethereum through one stack — instead of stitching together half a dozen vendors themselves.
Shipping the Stack, One Piece at a Time
Aligned is rolling out its stack incrementally:
Proof Aggregation Service — live on mainnet alpha. It batches the proofs a rollup generates, keeping verification cheap as Ethereum scales.
Wallet-as-a-Service — MVP already launched. Users sign in with Google or Face ID and get a real Ethereum wallet, with no seed phrases, extensions, or gas fees.
Rollup-as-a-Service, the LambdaVM, and the interoperability protocol — in development. The LambdaVM is Aligned’s RISC-V zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine), built in collaboration with LambdaClass and 3MI Labs. Each component ships as it’s ready.
The Role of $ALIGN
The world’s assets are steadily moving onto Ethereum, and Aligned is building the stack that makes it easy to build on top of them. Going forward, $ALIGN will be available as a payment option for services across that stack — from Proof Aggregation to Wallet-as-a-Service. As more teams build on Aligned, it becomes the asset they use to pay for that usage.
$ALIGN is a utility token. It is not equity, a share, or a claim on revenue or dividends, and it does not promise a yield or a price.
Tokenomics
$ALIGN has a fixed supply of 10 billion tokens, with roughly 16% circulating at launch. The full allocation and Genesis airdrop are detailed in the ALIGN tokenomics.
The airdrop was distributed across several waves — spanning developers and researchers, the Discord and Galxe communities, distinguished contributors to Ethereum and ZK such as Protocol Guild, L2BEAT, ZachXBT, and ZK Podcast, and holders of ecosystem tokens including Starknet, Mina, zkSync, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and EigenCloud.
Committed to Ethereum
Aligned is committed to Ethereum by choice, focusing all of its efforts there. Through the rest of the year, the team plans to ship the remaining pieces of the stack and grow the number of products built on it. The longer-term goal is simple but significant: to make building a financial product on Ethereum a single decision, not a systems-integration project.
Check eligibility and follow the launch at community.alignedlayer.com. Read the full ALIGN tokenomics at blog.alignedlayer.com and follow @alignedlayer.
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