Montevideo, Uruguay, August 20, 2026, Chainwire

Aligned, a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure project, has launched $ALIGN, the native token of its ecosystem, with listings on major exchanges. The company says it is working to turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend, offering fintechs, institutions, and enterprises a single integration for building financial products on Ethereum.

According to Aligned, less than 1% of the world’s assets are onchain, and much of what has moved is already on Ethereum in the form of stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and wrapped assets. The company says building on top of these assets remains more difficult than it should be. A fintech that wants to go onchain typically signs with multiple vendors — one for wallets and another for scalability solutions, including rollups and proving systems — and then spends months integrating and maintaining those systems. Aligned says there is not yet a standard way to launch a financial product on Ethereum, which is why it is packaging several infrastructure pieces into one stack rather than asking teams to assemble them separately.

Aligned says it was built to address that problem. The project was developed in close collaboration with LambdaClass, a company behind contributions across the Ethereum ecosystem, including work on Starknet, zkSync, Polygon Miden, and EigenCloud, formerly EigenLayer, as well as Ethrex, the execution client that powers Aligned’s Rollup-as-a-Service, and lambdaworks, a Rust-based cryptography library. Through Aligned’s stack, users can access wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services through a single integration.

The company said it is releasing the stack in phases:

• Proof Aggregation Service: live on mainnet alpha. It batches the proofs generated by a rollup so verification remains cost-efficient as Ethereum scales.
• Wallet-as-a-Service: its MVP has already launched. Users can sign in with Google or Face ID and receive a real Ethereum wallet, with no seed phrases, browser extensions, or gas fees.
• Rollup-as-a-Service, the LambdaVM, and the interoperability protocol: currently in development. Aligned described the LambdaVM as its RISC-V zkVM, or zero-knowledge virtual machine, built with LambdaClass and 3MI Labs. The company said each component will launch when ready.

Aligned said the world’s assets are moving onto Ethereum, and the company is building the infrastructure to make that transition easier. In the future, $ALIGN will be available as an option to pay for services across the stack, including Proof Aggregation and Wallet-as-a-Service. As more teams build on Aligned, the token is expected to be used to pay for that usage. The company said $ALIGN is a utility token and is not equity, a share, or a claim on revenue or dividends, and it does not promise a yield or a price.

$ALIGN has a fixed supply of 10 billion tokens, with about 16% circulating at launch. The full allocation and Genesis airdrop are detailed in the ALIGN tokenomics. Aligned said the airdrop was distributed in several waves across developers and researchers; the Discord and Galxe communities; contributors to Ethereum and zero-knowledge projects such as Protocol Guild, L2BEAT, ZachXBT, and ZK Podcast; and holders of ecosystem tokens including Starknet, Mina, zkSync, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and EigenCloud.

Aligned said it is focusing exclusively on Ethereum. For the rest of the year, the team plans to ship the remaining components of the stack and expand the number of products built on it. Its longer-term goal is to make building a financial product on Ethereum a single decision rather than a systems-integration project.

Users can check eligibility and follow the launch at community.alignedlayer.com. More information is available in the ALIGN tokenomics at blog.alignedlayer.com, and on X at @alignedlayer.

About Aligned

Aligned builds tools designed to turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend. It provides fintechs, institutions, and enterprises with one integration for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services, allowing them to build financial products on Ethereum instead of assembling separate vendor systems.

$ALIGN is the native asset of the Aligned ecosystem, built on Ethereum as an ERC-20 token and also available on Base, with a fixed total supply of 10 billion and an initial circulating supply of approximately 16% of the total token supply. It will be used across the Aligned stack. $ALIGN is not equity, a share, or a claim on revenue or dividends. This announcement is informational only and is not financial advice. Do your own research.

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