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. Aligned is working to turn Ethereum into the world's financial backend, and its ecosystem is the single integration fintechs, institutions, and enterprises use to build financial products on Ethereum — with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services.

Less than one percent of the world's assets are onchain, and most of what has moved sits on Ethereum as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and wrapped assets. Building on top of them is still harder than it should be. A fintech going onchain usually signs with multiple vendors — one for wallets, another for scalability solutions such as rollups and proving systems — then spends months wiring them together and keeping them in sync. There is no standard way to ship a financial product on Ethereum yet.

Aligned was built to fix that. It is 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 that powers Aligned's Rollup-as-a-Service, and lambdaworks, a cryptography library written in Rust. By integrating with Aligned, users can access wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services through a single stack.

Aligned ships the stack one piece at a time:

• Proof Aggregation Service — live on mainnet alpha. It batches the proofs a rollup generates so verification stays cheap as Ethereum scales. Verifying zero-knowledge proofs directly on Ethereum mainnet is gas-intensive, and batching them is one of the main levers zk rollups have for keeping per-proof costs down.
• 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 — Web2-style onboarding aimed at a long-standing barrier to mainstream self-custody.
• Rollup-as-a-Service, the LambdaVM, and the interoperability protocol — in development. Rollup-as-a-Service has become an established category as app-specific chains proliferate across the ecosystem. The LambdaVM is Aligned's RISC-V zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine), built in collaboration with LambdaClass and 3MI Labs; RISC-V has emerged as a common target for zkVMs because it lets standard programs be proven without hand-written circuits. Each ships as it is ready.

The world's assets are moving onto Ethereum, and Aligned is creating the stack that makes it easy to build on. In the future, $ALIGN will be available as an option to pay for services across that stack, from Proof Aggregation to Wallet-as-a-Service. As more teams build on Aligned, it will be the asset they use to pay for that usage. It 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.

$ALIGN has a fixed supply of 10 billion tokens, with about 16% circulating at launch — roughly 1.6 billion tokens. The full allocation and the Genesis airdrop are laid out 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.

Aligned is committed to Ethereum by choice, focusing all of its efforts on it. 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 milestones that will show how far the single-stack promise has come are the Proof Aggregation Service moving beyond mainnet alpha, Wallet-as-a-Service maturing past its MVP, and the first production releases of the Rollup-as-a-Service, LambdaVM, and interoperability protocol. The longer-term goal is 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. To hear more, read the ALIGN tokenomics and follow @alignedlayer.

About Aligned

Aligned builds the tools that turn Ethereum into the world's financial backend. It gives fintechs, institutions, and enterprises one integration for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services, so they can build real financial products on Ethereum instead of assembling a stack from separate vendors. More information is available at alignedlayer.com.

Note: $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 equal to 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.

Media contact: Roberto Catalan, Aligned Layer — roberto@yetanothercompany.xyz