December 31, 2021 Anthony DiPrinzio Since Aleo’s inception we’ve seen a tremendous amount of growth in the size and scope of our open-source community. In particular, 2021 had some of the most pivotal developments to the overall ecosystem. Let’s take a look back at some of our biggest developments: Discord At…

December 21, 2021 Alex Pruden Contrary to popular belief, the primary innovation of the Bitcoin protocol was not advanced cryptography, but its groundbreaking application of economic theory to distributed systems. The economic incentives it employed to align its “miners” in achieving consensus created an elegant, simple machinery for network security…

December 16, 2021 Anthony DiPrinzio Grants Program Update This past June, our core team announced the first iteration of the Aleo Community Grants Program. …

October 14, 2021 Alex Pruden Today, we are pleased to announce our support for the upcoming ZK Hack event, in conjunction with Anna Rose and the Zero-Knowledge Podcast. At Aleo, we are passionate about educating developers on the possibilities of zero-knowledge cryptography. …

August 16, 2021 Alex Pruden At Aleo, we believe that open-source, decentralized, and community-operated applications are the future. But without privacy, these applications cannot overcome the challenges that face the web of today. …

June 3, 2021 Anthony DiPrinzio Overview We are excited to announce the official launch of the Aleo Community Grants Program. This program is designed to accelerate our vision of creating an entirely private and totally personal experience for everyone on the web. Aleo utilizes a technology called zero-knowledge cryptography to enable…

April 20, 2021 The Aleo Team Aleo announced today it has raised $28M to build the next-generation platform for decentralized, private applications. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Placeholder VC, Galaxy Digital, Variant Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. …

March 26, 2021 Alex Pruden This article is the second in a series introducing zero knowledge primitives and Aleo’s solution to private, programmable applications. Read the introduction to ZK primitives. Recently, we introduced ZK primitives, the fundamental components of a programmable zero knowledge application. We defined these primitives to be…

March 18, 2021 Alex Pruden Introducing the core components of any private, programmable application for the Web3 ecosystem. Powered by Aleo.Zero Knowledge Technology In our daily activities online (such as using a search engine or a social network), the amount of data we unnecessarily, irreversibly hand over is a choice…