Aztec Network

Introducing the Aztec Foundation, a nonprofit organization to support the growth and development of open-source programmable privacy. The launch of the Aztec Foundation marks a significant milestone for the Aztec Network, bringing us closer to the launch of a fully decentralized, privacy-preserving network.

In this article, we’ll talk about one of the core components unlocking privacy on Ethereum: state management. We’ll shed some light on programmable and composable privacy which allows dApp developers to choose what they want to make private and what to leave public. That allows for an ecosystem of privacy-preserving dApps that can communicate with each other as well as Ethereum.

We are constantly striving to make the Aztec Network more secure by developing internal tooling and seeking external expertise. ‍To prepare for a barrage of future audits before the mainnet launch, we ran a test exercise with three well-established auditing companies including ZKSecurity, Zellic, and Spearbit. 

Since Aztec's launch seven years ago, we’ve been on a mission to solve one of the biggest barriers to mass blockchain adoption – privacy. Imagine a world where developers can write programs that protect user data but take full advantage of a trustless, permissionless system – all backed by the security. This is what we’re working towards, and this product roadmap is how we get there. 

After 7 years of building in the open, last month we announced that Devnet is now live. To celebrate we launched Alpha Build, a series of three developer sprints with up to US$100,000 in prizes and the opportunity to deploy on the Aztec for the first time. Starting October 8th - October 29th, 2024, the second sprint, Alpha Build 2 (AB2), will focus on identity and social.

Over the last month, to celebrate a live DevNet, we championed builders to help shape the future of payments through Alpha Build One (AB1). From wallets using Ethereum signatures to cloud-based wallet features and beyond, we had 50 participants, 6 teams, and a total of 13 projects submitted.

In this blog post, we explore zero-knowledge (ZK) property, investigate if ZK-rollups have any ZK, and differentiate between ZK as a technology and as a marketing term.

In this article, we revisit the topic of Account Abstraction (AA): its meaning, history, and current landscape. We explore the possibilities that AA opens for developers and figure out which Account Abstraction is the most abstract one.

Worldwide, the average person’s daily screen time is 6 hours and 58 minutes. This is approximately 41% of waking time. Does it mean that a modern human is 41% digital?

What do we mean by “decentralization”? Why Aztec takes decentralization seriously? In this post, we explore Aztec’s efforts around protocol decentralization: sequencer, prover, and upgrade mechanism.

Blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum provide humanity with programmable digital money. Aztec is a privacy-first Layer 2 on Ethereum. It enables a critical dimension of programmable digital money that has heretofore been ignored: privacy.

"Sidecar" wins Aztec's prover coordination protocol RFPs, and comments invited on essential sequencer selection and prover coordination protocols for block production.

This post delves into the unique structure of transactions within Aztec's network, highlighting their distinct features and the underlying technology.

Aztec.nr is a breakthrough in private smart contract frameworks, focusing on elevating privacy and functionality in blockchain.

An in-depth look at the intricate network structure within the Aztec ecosystem, detailing its components and functionalities.