It's time to level-up your ZK skills.

Here's a video playlist explaining Aleo for both new and seasoned ZK devs. 🛠️

See it all below ↓ Demystifying ZK with Howard Wu ✨

An introduction to Aleo's record model and the Leo Language.

With 5M Aleo Credits up for grabs, what should you build on Testnet3 Phase III?

Pay close attention to Zero-knowledge Identity ↓ 1/ One of the strongest use cases for ZK is a Decentralized Identifier (DID).

DIDs allow you to gain greater control over your identity without relying on centralized authorities.

New to the Aleo Community?

Here's a thread covering everything you need to know & Testnet initiatives going on right now 👇🧵 1/ Aleo

Aleo is a private-by-default L1 blockchain aiming to reboot the internet.

By leveraging decentralized systems and zero-knowledge cryptography, Aleo is able to achieve scalability, privacy, and programmability.

Today, we are resetting the network to launch one of the most important features of Aleo - Finalize.

Finalize will allow Aleo to achieve the best feature of Ethereum while continuing to support privacy, making it the first blockchain to achieve this.👇 1/ In the space of zk & privacy, you are left with a trade-off between privacy and global state.

Since some applications require public inputs to function, this limits what types of applications can be built.

The Future 👀

Wondering what you should build on Aleo to qualify for the 5M Aleo Credits in Deploy Incentives? 👀

Here are some popular categories and project ideas ↓ 🎮 ZK Gaming Ideas

1️⃣ Turn-based games (e.g. Battleship)
2️⃣ Table games (e.g. Poker)
3️⃣ Role-playing Games (e.g. Dark Forest)

📣 Deploy incentives are right around the corner.

Our goal with Deploy Incentives is to test the capabilities of our network and accelerate the development of high-quality applications on Aleo.

5M Aleo Credits are up for grabs ↓ How will the Deploy Incentives Program work?

The Aleo Ambassadors and core team will review submitted applications and rank them based on the following criteria:

Privacy is an urgent issue.

Today, public blockchains expose everything you do - revealing who you transact with and the applications you use.

This system is impractical and needs to change.

Here's what we are doing to solve this👇 2/ Aleo is building a private-by-default Layer-1 blockchain.

What does this mean?

In short, the Aleo blockchain supports private smart contracts 🔒

Users have the CHOICE to keep certain details private when navigating web3.

The end of 2022 is almost here!

Thank you to the Aleo Community and everyone who contributed to our mission💙

Here's a brief recap of what we accomplished this year 👇 2/ Aleo closed its series B at the start of the year - raising over $200m to support our mission to bring zero knowledge technology to the masses.

Zero-knowledge is the most underrated technology right now.

We have put together everything you need to know to get up to speed.

Here is your Zero-Knowledge Guide (Megathread) 👇 2/ A Zero Knowledge Proof is a type of cryptographic protocol that allows you to prove that you know something without revealing any information about that something.

Confused? Check out this thread:

https://twitter.com/AleoHQ/status/1592515306991550470?s=20&t=3Jy0TQVJ5QQ_VCQP2Dd-HA

Aleo’s incentivized testnet recently went live!

Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions👇 2/ Q: Why am I not getting any credits?

A: Although the new coinbase model prevents a “winner-takes-all” scenario, finding solutions is difficult!

Since proving is inherently competitive, we recommend that smaller provers create/join Proving Pools to make it easier.

Today marks a significant milestone for Aleo. We have just turned on incentives for our Testnet 🎉

We are getting closer to launching our mainnet and we invite you to join our mission💙

👇Here is what you need to know & how to start collecting Aleo Credits 2/ The initial part of the Aleo Incentives program will be focused on Provers.

Provers help generate cryptographic proofs and play a vital role in the new AleoBFT consensus algorithm.

You can read more about Provers and AleoBFT here:

https://twitter.com/AleoHQ/status/1590485296256544768?s=20&t=6Q_sZYWSnBbTXFMcs9snjw

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with @oviohq on Zero Knowledge Base Camp⚡

This program will accelerate teams building with Zero Knowledge Proofs, giving them access to expert mentors, investment, resources and more.

Here’s how it works 👇 @OVioHQ 2/ What is ZK Base Camp?
➡️ 12-week accelerator program aimed at backing early-stage Web3 projects.
➡️ Outlier Ventures have helped over 20 cohorts and 180 teams building in #Web3

Our mission at Aleo is to build a user experience on the web that is truly personal and private. Using Zero-Knowledge technology, we are creating an internet that is secure, compliant, and fair.

We invite you to join the mission and follow the road to our mainnet launch 👇 2/ For the first time, users will have a choice when it comes to online privacy.

❌No more exposing your personal data.

❌No more paying the price of security breaches.

💪Zero-Knowledge empowers you to take control of your privacy.

With AleoBFT - Aleo’s new consensus mechanism, Provers solve coinbase puzzles on the network for a share of the rewards in each block.

Here’s a simple guide on how to become a Prover👇 2 / Before jumping in, install Rust v1.64+(rust-lang.org/tools/install) and meet the following hardware specs:

✅CPU: 16-cores (32-cores preferred)
✅RAM: 16GB of memory (32GB preferred)
✅Storage: 128GB of disk space
✅Network: 10 Mbps of upload & download bandwidth

Today marks a significant milestone for Aleo. We have successfully introduced Provers into network, officially kicking off Phase 2 of Testnet 3.

We are getting closer to launching mainnet and we invite you to be a part of our mission💙

Here’s what you need to know 👇🧵 1 / The issue with zero knowledge proofs is they can be slow & expensive to generate if your hardware isn’t optimized, especially for compute-intensive applications like authentication, ML, and gaming.

Aleo is revolutionizing how users interact with the web - creating an experience that is truly private and personal by leveraging zero-knowledge cryptography🧵👇 2/ In web2, users are the product.

There is no such thing as private web data❌

If it lives online, somebody owns it.

Many next-generation L1s focus on scalability. But are they missing the point? In fact, scalability is only half the story. Privacy is also essential for a real economy. Using #zeroknowledge proofs, @AleoHQ is the only next-gen L1 that guarantees *both* privacy and scale

1/ Why even focus on privacy? The reality is, the entire financial system today is private b/n interacting parties. By sending someone a bank wire, you don't see their account balance. Signing a contract doesn't mean you learn about other contracts your counter-party also signed

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Many people assume existing Layer-1 protocols can be adapted to support private smart contracts for use cases like identity, digital cash, and machine learning. But the truth is more complicated. 🧵👇

1/ $ETH iterated on the $BTC protocol that in turn built on a rich intellectual history of previous attempts to create systems of digital value. In order to do scalable private smart contracts with minimal trust assumptions, you need to redesign the system from the bottom-up. |

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🌘 Zero-knowledge proofs are often thought of as a way to conceal information. That's true. But they also have another property that turns out to be very useful for scaling decentralized networks: *succinctness*. 🧵 2/ First, let's review some of the different classes of zero-knowledge proofs 📜:

- Sigma Protocols
- Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge arguments (NIZKs)
- Succinct Non-interactive ARGuments (SNARGs)
- Succinct Non-interactive ARguments of Knowledge (SNARKs)

1/ 🎉 We're excited to announce our support for the upcoming @__zkhack__ event hosted by @AnnaRRose and @zeroknowledge podcast.

Here's why 👇 2/ We @AleoHQ are passionate about educating developers about ZKPs and how to build with them. We believe this tech will play a very important role in the future to power both traditional web applications and in the fast-growing digital economy enabled by crypto.💸💸