The Aleo Network Foundation (Aleo), which oversees the ALEO Network, a privacy and compliance infrastructure for secure, programmable, worldwide payments, has announced its inclusion in Binance Alpha, a pre-listing discovery program from Binance.

Binance Alpha serves as a pre-listing discovery program designed to highlight promising early-stage Web3 projects that demonstrate strong community interest, increasing traction, and alignment with key industry trends. Aleo’s inclusion is presented as an industry endorsement of its privacy-led infrastructure, providing developers and early adopters access to its zero-knowledge proof technology.

BJ Mahal, VP, Head of Partnerships at Aleo, stated, “Binance Alpha is giving builders and early adopters an opportunity to engage with Aleo’s zero-knowledge technology.” He added that this hands-on access is “essential to advancing real-world use cases, whether it’s enabling compliant digital payments, protecting user data, or building scalable applications that institutions and consumers can trust,” emphasizing it as a path for “blockchain [to move] from promise to mainstream adoption.” The $ALEO token is now accessible to Binance’s user base, which totals over 280 million across more than 100 countries.

This development follows recent momentum for Aleo, including a partnership with fintech company Revolut and its position as the first privacy-focused Layer 1 (L1) blockchain to join the Global Dollar Network (GDN). The Aleo Network Foundation builds infrastructure for private, decentralized applications, utilizing zero-knowledge cryptography to enable scalable, off-chain execution with on-chain verification. This approach aims to deliver privacy without compromising programmability, allowing developers to create secure applications without exposing user data.