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Aligned Layer builds the infrastructure that helps fintechs, institutions, and enterprises upgrade to Ethereum, turning it into a financial backend the world can build on. Aligned is a full stack of vertically integrated infrastructure. Today a company that wants to ship a financial product on Ethereum has to assemble separate vendors for embedded wallets, a dedicated rollup, interoperability, and proof infrastructure, then maintain four or five integrations before writing any product code. Aligned builds all of that in-house and delivers it through a single integration. Teams use Aligned to launch remittances, neobanks, stablecoin-based payment rails, digital identity systems, and other financial services that need scale and cross-ecosystem reach, all through a single integration for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and ZK services. The Proof Aggregation Service is live on Ethereum mainnet (alpha) and uses recursion to compress many zero-knowledge proofs into a single onchain verification, which keeps ZK costs sustainable as usage scales. Rollup-as-a-Service and Wallet-as-a-Service are in production with selected partners. Interoperability and LambdaVM (a RISC-V zkVM built with 3MI Labs and LambdaClass) are in development. Aligned is proof-system agnostic and supports SP1, RISC Zero, STARKs, and SNARKs. $ALIGN is the native asset of the Aligned ecosystem and an ERC-20 utility token on Ethereum. It is intended to pay fees for the services provided across the Aligned stack, including Proof Aggregation, Rollup-as-a-Service, and Wallet-as-a-Service.