Golden Finance reported that Aligned Layer, Ethereum's first decentralized ZK Proof verification layer powered by Eigen Layer, completed a $2.6 million seed round of financing, led by Lemniscap, with participation from Bankless Ventures and Paper Ventures Sreeram Kannan, Brandon Kase, Daniel Lubarov, DCbuilder, Chainyoda, Weikeng Chen, Sami BENYAKOUB (samnode_), Peter Fittin (SizeChad) and Lucas Kozinski, as well as strategic investments from StarkWare and O(1)Labs. The funds will be used to expand the team and accelerate the launch of the Aligned Layer mainnet, which is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2024.