Our Story

Align was born out of a desire to extend badges, NFTs, SBTs to accompany a variety of complex use cases that couldn't be easily handled onchain. That lead us down a path to create v1 which is an offchain metadata IPFS pinning service where the metadata is registered onchain under a defined type and can be used as NFT whitelists, & uniswap v4 pools.

Another name for this concept is attestations. So for instance you can easily run offchain games, logic etc and award accolades onchain.

It's currently live on align.network, where you can use predefined types such as meme images and claim your badge, check out our github for how to use it onchain!

v2 of Align breaks out v1 and takes the concept of offchain storage to EIP-4844 blob storage where we offer a way to cheaply store blobs long term, mainly useful for L2s check it out on github.

Eventually v2 will offer v1's type system unlocking the full power of ethereum blobs as a decentralized storage options!