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Aligned Launches $ALIGN, the Native Token of Its Full Ethereum Stack

August 21, 2026

Montevideo, Uruguay, 21st August 2026, Chainwire

Montevideo, Uruguay, August 20th, 2026, Chainwire

Aligned permits fintechs and establishments to construct monetary merchandise on Ethereum, with one-click options for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge companies.

At the moment, Aligned, a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure mission, has launched $ALIGN*, the native token of its ecosystem, with listings on main exchanges. Aligned is working to show Ethereum into the world’s monetary backend, and its ecosystem is the one integration fintechs, establishments, and enterprises use to construct monetary merchandise on Ethereum.

Lower than one p.c of the world’s belongings are onchain, and most of what has moved sits on Ethereum as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and wrapped belongings. Constructing on high of them continues to be more durable than it needs to be. A fintech going onchain normally indicators with a number of distributors, one for wallets, one other for scalability options (together with rollups and proving methods), then spends months wiring them collectively and conserving them in sync. There is no such thing as a customary method to ship a monetary product on Ethereum but.

Aligned was constructed to repair that. It’s in-built shut collaboration with LambdaClass, an organization behind key contributions throughout the Ethereum ecosystem, together with work on Starknet, zkSync, Polygon Miden, and EigenCloud (previously EigenLayer), in addition to Ethrex (the execution consumer which powers Aligned’s Rollup-as-a-Service) and lambdaworks, a cryptography library written in Rust. By integrating with Aligned, customers can entry wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge companies by means of a single stack.

Aligned ships the stack one piece at a time:

Proof Aggregation Service: reside on mainnet alpha. Batching the proofs a rollup generates so verification stays low-cost as Ethereum scales.
Wallet-as-a-Service: MVP already launched. Customers register with Google or Face ID and get an actual Ethereum pockets, with no seed phrases, extensions, or fuel charges.
Rollup-as-a-Service, the LambdaVM, and the interoperability protocol: in improvement. The LambdaVM is Aligned’s RISC-V zkVM (zero-knowledge digital machine), in-built collaboration with LambdaClass and 3MI Labs. Every ships because it’s prepared.

The world’s belongings are transferring onto Ethereum, and Aligned is creating the stack that makes it straightforward to construct on. Sooner or later, $ALIGN will likely be out there as an choice to pay for the companies throughout that stack, from Proof Aggregation to Pockets-as-a-Service. As extra groups construct on Aligned, it is going to be the asset they use to pay for that utilization. It’s a utility token. It’s not fairness, a share, or a declare on income or dividends, and it doesn’t promise a yield or a value.

$ALIGN has a set provide of 10 billion tokens, with about 16% circulating at launch. The complete allocation and the Genesis airdrop are specified by the ALIGN tokenomics. The airdrop was distributed throughout a number of waves spanning builders and researchers, the Discord and Galxe communities, distinguished contributors to Ethereum and ZK reminiscent of Protocol Guild, L2BEAT, ZachXBT, and ZK Podcast, and holders of ecosystem tokens together with Starknet, Mina, zkSync, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and EigenCloud.

Aligned is dedicated to Ethereum by alternative, focusing all of its efforts on it. By way of the remainder of the 12 months, the staff plans to ship the remaining items of the stack and develop the variety of merchandise constructed on it. The longer-term aim is to make constructing a monetary product on Ethereum a single resolution, not a systems-integration mission.

Verify eligibility and comply with the launch at community.alignedlayer.com. To listen to extra, learn the ALIGN tokenomics at blog.alignedlayer.com and comply with @alignedlayer.

About Aligned

Aligned builds the instruments that flip Ethereum into the world’s monetary backend. It provides fintechs, establishments, and enterprises one integration for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge companies, to allow them to construct actual monetary merchandise on Ethereum as an alternative of assembling a stack from separate distributors. Customers can be taught extra at alignedlayer.com.

*$ALIGN is the native asset of the Aligned ecosystem, constructed on Ethereum as an ERC-20 token and in addition out there on Base, with a set complete provide of 10 billion and an preliminary circulating provide equal to roughly 16% of the whole token provide. Will probably be used throughout the Aligned stack. $ALIGN is just not fairness, a share, or a declare on income or dividends. This announcement is informational solely and isn’t monetary recommendation. Do your personal analysis.