Aligned
(Inactive)Vertically integrated infrastructure stack for the verifiable internet
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About Aligned
Aligned is a Web3 infrastructure company focused on simplifying the construction of financial products on Ethereum. Its core business is the Proof Aggregation Service, which uses recursive aggregation to compress multiple zero-knowledge proofs into a single on-chain verification, reducing verification costs by over 90%. It also offers Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS), allowing users to log in via Google or Face ID to obtain an Ethereum wallet without managing seed phrases or paying gas fees.
The market pain point Aligned addresses is the fragmentation of Ethereum infrastructure. Financial institutions typically need to integrate multiple vendors for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services, costing months of integration work. Aligned provides a unified stack covering these components.
In the past six months, Aligned launched its $ALIGN token on major exchanges on August 20, 2026, with a fixed supply of 10 billion and about 16% circulating at launch. However, a significant negative development occurred: on July 21, 2026, Aligned announced the deprecation of its original Proof Verification Layer, which had verified over 136,000 proofs, just one month before the token generation event. This decision reduced operator numbers from a peak of 50+ to approximately 26, with restaked value around $119 million. The company cited ZK technology maturation, native ZK support in Ethereum's protocol layer, and market preference for Ethereum-level security guarantees. The Proof Aggregation Service entered mainnet alpha in Q1 2026, while RaaS, LambdaVM, and interoperability protocols remain under development.
Over the past six months (Feb-Aug 2026), Aligned made significant strides. In July 2026, it announced the deprecation of its Proof Verification Layer, consolidating all efforts into the Proof Aggregation Service as the sole solution, citing Ethereum's native ZK support trajectory. The service had verified 136,000+ proofs with 59 operators, achieving ~2,100 gas per proof at launch. In March 2026, Aligned introduced Wallet-as-a-Service, a smart contract wallet built on ERC-4337 account abstraction, featuring passkey-based login (Google, iCloud Keychain), cross-device sync, and server guardian recovery with timelock and MFA. Future roadmap focuses on vertical integration: Rollup-as-a-Service on Ethrex L2, LambdaVM (RISC-V zkVM) in partnership with LambdaClass and 3MI Labs, and an interoperability protocol. The $ALIGN token will serve as the payment option across the stack. Aligned aims to make building financial products on Ethereum a single decision, not a systems-integration project.
Aligned's core executives include:
CEO Neal Kaufman, who brings extensive financial and management experience, having previously served as CFO and COO at OpenNetworks.
COO Chris Ensey, with 20 years of information security and engineering experience, formerly COO at Riot Blockchain.
CTO David Stanfill, with 12 years in high-performance computing, specializing in FPGA and GPU data centers.
VP Finance Colm Cunning, with a background in finance and accounting, having held roles at several technology companies.