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Lumino Ceremony: Building the Privacy Protection Infrastructure

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PlatON, a privacy AI computing network which is committed to building a decentralized collaborative artificial intelligence network and global brain, is promoting the democratization of artificial intelligence and establishing a secure general artificial intelligence. The bottom layer of its decentralized privacy protection infrastructure is based on Zero-Knowledge Proof.

What is Zero-Knowledge Proof

Zero-Knowledge Proof is a cryptographic technology to realize privacy protection authentication. The prover needs to make the verifier believe that he knows or owns a message, without disclosing any information about message which is to be confirmed. For example, if the prover wants to prove that he knows the safe box password without revealing it, he can just show some items existing in the safe box that everyone knows.

This process is Zero-Knowledge Proof. The proof needs an initial credible setting (some items existing in the safe box that everyone knows), namely a series of public parameters to help the prover build Zero-Knowledge Proof.

Deficiency of Zero-Knowledge Proof

As a cryptographic technology with both privacy protection and authentication capability, zero-knowledge proof is widely used to realize transaction verification under hidden business details in blockchain. The zero-knowledge proof system applied in the blockchain field is mainly a cryptographic algorithm called “zk-SNARKs”. At present, the existing classic zk-SNARKs algorithms include  GGPR13, PGHR13, Groth16, GM17, and new generation algorithms such as Sonic, Marlin, Plonk, which support updating public parameters. The current version of ZCash, a well-known private cryptographic currency, uses Groth16 algorithm.

From the above “safe box”, we can see that the premise for the correct operation of this kind of algorithm is existing a series of random trusted parameters. However, randomized parameters will not come out of thin air and there is no trusted third party in the blockchain. Parameters created by centralized third parties can be reconstructed in theory, and it is possible to forge proofs, which may destroy the underlying security in PlatON. Imagine that if a specific institution informed the verifier of the storage of the items in the safe box, the institution and the prover could collude and use this secret information to falsify the illusion that the prover knew the safe box password.

Therefore, it is an undoubtedly excellent idea to organize multiple participants to create these randomized parameters through Secure Multi-party Computation. In this process, single party can not reconstruct the parameters any more. Only when this activity is completed safely will the subsequent decentralized application be safe. In fact, ZCash has successfully created system parameters for Groth16 algorithm in November 2017 through its ceremony, Power of Tau.

Lumino, creating secure parameters

In order to prevent the parameters generated by the centralized mode from affecting the underlying security, PlatON started the Secure Multi-party Computation ceremony Lumino on June 21, 2021, last for   60 days. This ceremony is expected to create necessary secure parameters for the Zero-Knowledge Proof protocol.

During the Lumino ceremony, multiple participants carry out several rounds of calculation in the form of a relay, that is to say, the current participant need to use the calculation results of the previous participant as the input of this round, and the calculation output become the calculation input of the next participant as well. After a certain number of rounds, the output of the last participant is the final result of the whole ceremony, namely the system initialization parameters that Plonk thatalgorithm of PlatON will choose. Obviously, the more participants take part in the ceremony, the safer the parameters will be.

As a practical and efficient Zero-Knowledge Proof algorithm, Plonk is commonly used in PlatON projects and communities, which is characterized by a one-time initialization process, that is, running once can be used to deploy multiple applications. Providing necessary initialization parameters for Plonk algorithm through Lumino ceremony means that no one can master the secret information behind the parameters, which can be used to cheat players in the whole system. Lumino ceremony will lay a solid foundation for the security of PlatON.

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All Thingz Electric Urges Orange County Homeowners to Service Backup Generators Before Fall Outage Season

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Aliso Viejo, California, United States, 21st Aug 2026 – All Thingz Electric, a licensed electrical contractor serving Aliso Viejo and the surrounding South Orange County communities, is advising homeowners to have backup generators and transfer switches inspected now, ahead of the Santa Ana wind season responsible for most of Southern California’s fall power shutoffs.

Fall Is When Orange County Loses Power

Southern California Edison runs Public Safety Power Shutoffs when high wind and dry brush raise wildfire risk. Those conditions concentrate in September, October, and November. Shutoffs last hours and sometimes stretch into a second day. Hillside and canyon-adjacent neighborhoods across South Orange County sit inside the highest-risk zones, and a single event takes out entire streets at once.

A standby generator protects a home only if it starts and carries the load. Most residential units run a short weekly self-test. The self-test confirms the engine turns over. It does not confirm the unit holds a full household load for eight hours, and it misses a failing starting battery, stale fuel, a clogged air filter, or a transfer switch stuck in the utility position.

“Almost nobody calls us during an outage because their generator died of old age,” said Anthony Feeney, founder and certified journeyman electrician at All Thingz Electric. “They call because the unit has not been touched since the day it was installed. A dead starting battery stops a five-year-old generator as fast as a fifteen-year-old one.”

What a Pre-Season Service Visit Covers

All Thingz Electric technicians load-test the starting battery, change oil and filters against hours run rather than the calendar, verify fuel supply pressure on natural gas and propane systems, and operate the automatic transfer switch under load to confirm it moves the house off utility power and back again. The visit also checks the generator’s connection at the service panel, where loose lugs and corroded terminals build up quietly over years.

Homes with a history of nuisance tripping get a look at the circuit breaker side as well, since a breaker problem shows up under generator load the same way it shows up on utility power. An electrical inspection and code compliance check confirms the installation still meets current requirements.

Homes Without Backup Power Have a Narrow Window

For homeowners considering a system, timing matters. Whole-home generator installation runs one to two days on site once permits clear, and the permit step follows the city’s calendar rather than the contractor’s. Portable setups move faster. A manual transfer switch and power inlet install in four to six hours and let a portable unit feed hardwired circuits safely, instead of running extension cords under a door.

Panel capacity decides part of this. A generator ties into the same service equipment as everything else in the house, and older Orange County panels often lack the spare capacity or the physical room for a transfer switch. In those homes an electrical panel upgrade or a sub-panel installation comes first. Homeowners already planning a panel upgrade often add whole-house surge protection at the same visit, since restored utility power after an outage is one of the more common sources of household surges.

“Backup power is the one system in a house nobody thinks about until the hour it matters,” Feeney said. “Book the service call in August. By late October the whole county is calling at the same time.”

All Thingz Electric offers free quotes on generator installation and service, and its 24/7 emergency electrical team responds during active outages.

About All Thingz Electric

All Thingz Electric is a licensed electrical contractor founded by Anthony Feeney, a certified journeyman electrician, serving residential and commercial clients throughout Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo, Irvine, Lake Forest, Dana Point, and Laguna Beach. Services include home backup generator installation and serviceelectrical panel upgradessub-panel installationEV charger installationwhole-house surge protectionwhole-home rewiring, and 24/7 emergency electrical services. Every project includes a free quote and a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Learn more at allthingzelectric.com.

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Fabricate Adds Database Explorer to Its Free AI Website Builder

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Fabricate, a free AI website builder, has added a built-in database explorer for preview builds and a publishing step that verifies an application’s production database schema before deployment.

Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 21st Aug 2026 – Fabricate, a free AI website builder that generates full-stack applications, has released a set of database capabilities for applications generated on its platform. The release adds a built-in database explorer for preview builds and a publishing step that verifies an application’s production database before it is deployed.

Applications generated on the platform are provisioned with a database automatically, and the generated code includes the migrations that define its schema. Until this release, developers could inspect that data only after publishing. The database explorer now lets them browse tables and run queries against an application’s preview database while it is still in development.

The second part of the release changes what happens at publish. Publishing now compares the live production schema against the migrations the application generated, applies any that are missing, and refuses to deploy against a database it cannot verify. A production migration that fails now reports the failure rather than reporting success.

Preview and production databases are also now separated, so a preview build cannot write to the production database backing a published application.

“Generated code is only half of an application. The data underneath it is the other half, and it is the half people are afraid to touch,” said Aaron E. Rushing, Founder of Fabricate. “A developer should be able to look at their tables before they publish, and publishing should never quietly deploy against a schema that does not match the code.”

How the Platform Works

Fabricate converts natural-language descriptions into production-ready applications, generating React and TypeScript front ends, backend APIs, database schemas, and a live deployment URL. Users describe an application in plain English, watch the code generate in real time, and refine it through follow-up conversation. Generated applications run on Cloudflare Workers, with TailwindCSS styling and Vite builds. The platform is available as a free AI website builder that requires no payment method to begin.

Users created 2,222 applications on the platform in the 30 days ending August 18, 2026. The most active build categories over that period included administrative panels, chat applications, job boards, and SaaS dashboards, application types that require a backend service, an authentication layer, and a database rather than a single-page template. Teams building revenue-generating software can review supported integrations, including payment processing, authentication, and database provisioning, on the AI SaaS builder overview.

The database work follows a broader set of platform changes released over the same period. Fabricate moved the product and its marketing site onto a new design system, added daily DNS drift detection for applications published on custom domains, and changed a project’s first build to start on the server, so that it no longer depends on the browser staying connected. Runtime errors from a running application are captured and surfaced back into the conversation that generated it.

Availability and Pricing

The database explorer is available for preview builds on the platform, and database access has been included on the free plan since April 2026. The Fabricate free plan includes 60 monthly credits and one published project. The Pro plan is priced at 25 USD per month and includes 350 monthly credits, private projects, code download, GitHub export, and no watermark. The Scale plan is priced at 50 USD per month and includes 700 monthly credits and dedicated support. New accounts receive a seven-day trial that includes 100 credits.

About Fabricate

Fabricate is a free AI website builder that generates full-stack applications from natural language descriptions, deployed and production-ready. Built for founders, developers, designers, freelancers, and agencies, the platform handles the development lifecycle from first prompt to live deployment, generating React, TypeScript, and TailwindCSS applications on Cloudflare’s global network.

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

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Montevideo, Uruguay, August 20th, 2026, Chainwire

Aligned allows fintechs and institutions to build financial products on Ethereum, with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services.

Today, Aligned, a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure project, has launched $ALIGN*, the native token of its ecosystem, with listings on major exchanges. Aligned is working to turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend, and its ecosystem is the single integration fintechs, institutions, and enterprises use to build financial products on Ethereum.

Less than one percent of the world’s assets are onchain, and most of what has moved sits on Ethereum as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and wrapped assets. Building on top of them is still harder than it should be. A fintech going onchain usually signs with multiple vendors, one for wallets, another for scalability solutions (including rollups and proving systems), then spends months wiring them together and keeping them in sync. There is no standard way to ship a financial product on Ethereum yet.

Aligned was built to fix that. It’s built in close collaboration with LambdaClass, a company behind key contributions across the Ethereum ecosystem, including work on Starknet, zkSync, Polygon Miden, and EigenCloud (formerly EigenLayer), as well as Ethrex (the execution client which powers Aligned’s Rollup-as-a-Service) and lambdaworks, a cryptography library written in Rust. By integrating with Aligned, users can access wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services through a single stack.

Aligned ships the stack one piece at a time:

  • Proof Aggregation Service: live on mainnet alpha. Batching the proofs a rollup generates so verification stays cheap as Ethereum scales.
  • Wallet-as-a-Service: MVP already launched. Users sign in with Google or Face ID and get a real Ethereum wallet, with no seed phrases, extensions, or gas fees.
  • Rollup-as-a-Service, the LambdaVM, and the interoperability protocol: in development. The LambdaVM is Aligned’s RISC-V zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine), built in collaboration with LambdaClass and 3MI Labs. Each ships as it’s ready.

The world’s assets are moving onto Ethereum, and Aligned is creating the stack that makes it easy to build on. In the future, $ALIGN will be available as an option to pay for the services across that stack, from Proof Aggregation to Wallet-as-a-Service. As more teams build on Aligned, it will be the asset they use to pay for that usage. It is a utility token. It is not equity, a share, or a claim on revenue or dividends, and it does not promise a yield or a price.

$ALIGN has a fixed supply of 10 billion tokens, with about 16% circulating at launch. The full allocation and the Genesis airdrop are laid out in the ALIGN tokenomics. The airdrop was distributed across several waves spanning developers and researchers, the Discord and Galxe communities, distinguished contributors to Ethereum and ZK such as Protocol Guild, L2BEAT, ZachXBT, and ZK Podcast, and holders of ecosystem tokens including Starknet, Mina, zkSync, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and EigenCloud.

Aligned is committed to Ethereum by choice, focusing all of its efforts on it. Through the rest of the year, the team plans to ship the remaining pieces of the stack and grow the number of products built on it. The longer-term goal is to make building a financial product on Ethereum a single decision, not a systems-integration project.

Check eligibility and follow the launch at community.alignedlayer.com. To hear more, read the ALIGN tokenomics at blog.alignedlayer.com and follow @alignedlayer.

About Aligned

Aligned builds the tools that turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend. It gives fintechs, institutions, and enterprises one integration for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services, so they can build real financial products on Ethereum instead of assembling a stack from separate vendors. Users can learn more at alignedlayer.com.

*$ALIGN is the native asset of the Aligned ecosystem, built on Ethereum as an ERC-20 token and also available on Base, with a fixed total supply of 10 billion and an initial circulating supply equal to approximately 16% of the total token supply. It will be used across the Aligned stack. $ALIGN is not equity, a share, or a claim on revenue or dividends. This announcement is informational only and is not financial advice. Do your own research.

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