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ChainCatcher news, Aligned has reached a strategic partnership with Sovra and Loom Finance to promote the application of Ethereum L2 services. The digital identity platform Sovra is using Aligned's RaaS technology stack to provide identity services for more than 6 million users in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and other regions. Loom Finance is a platform aimed at bringing income-based financing and real-world cash flows on-chain. Aligned is the infrastructure provider for Loom Finance, and Loom will leverage Aligned's technology stack to launch and build its own financial ecosystem. Both Sovra and Loom's L2 networks are built on Ethrex. Ethrex is an Ethereum execution client based on Rust developed by LambdaClass, supporting both L1 and L2 modes. It focuses on simplicity, performance, and forward compatibility, serving as a key foundation for scalable ZK-rollups. The deep integration of Aligned with LambdaClass and Ethrex enables it to provide a fully modular rollup technology stack with fewer external dependencies, stronger reliability guarantees, and a seamless ZK integration experience. Risk Warning

ChainCatcher reports that four leading global mining pools and computing power ecosystems—F2Pool (the world's largest Dogecoin and Litecoin mining pool), GrandCroix, DePIN X Capital, and Codestream—have officially joined the Psy Protocol public testnet. They will participate in network operations, transaction validation, and zero-knowledge proof aggregation with real computing power, providing fundamental support for performance and security testing before the mainnet launch. Psy Protocol has demonstrated the capability to process over one million transactions per second (TPS) in internal benchmark tests. The protocol architecture delegates the generation of transaction proofs to users on their local devices, while miners are responsible for verifying and recursively aggregating zero-knowledge proofs. This decouples the verification burden from transaction volume, enabling the network to scale horizontally as more users participate in parallel. Reportedly, Psy Protocol is a smart contract platform based on Proof of Useful Work. By allowing users to generate transaction proofs and aggregate zero-knowledge proofs on-chain, Psy empowers developers to build large-scale Web3 applications and enables the AI agent economy.