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Aztec Alpha V5 is live, and so is Shield (by @humntech): a proof-of-humanity bridge for moving assets between Ethereum and Aztec.
Shield lets users bridge assets while proving the sender is legitimate and the funds are compliant, all without revealing their identities.
Bridge USDC to Aztec now at shield.human.tech/
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Doubling down with you.
Private smart contracts, settled to Ethereum, live right now.
This is what Aztec was built for.
It's only dead if you give up
I'm not giving up on privacy. I'm doubling down.
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Fully decentralized ✅
Fully private ✅
Fully programmable public/private smart contracts ✅
If you care about privacy, you should care about Aztec.
Privacy szn always leads back to Aztec
Fully decentralized
Fully private
Fully programmable with public/private smart contracts
In alpha, but we've got some of the best teams in the space building and planning for upcoming stable releases
Couldn't be more excited for what's to come
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Programmable privacy allows for unprecedented levels of customization to ensure your data is seen exclusively by the people you choose.
What apps would you like to see built with programmable privacy on Aztec?
I want to borrow against private assets without publishing my finances. This requires advanced private composition of credit credentials, lending and payments. Aztec gives developers private smart contracts to build those connections.
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A viewing key hands over an address's entire history to whoever holds it.
Programmable disclosure proves one fact to one party, once, as part of the contract logic.
One is a compliance feature bolted on after the fact. The other is Aztec, with compliance designed into the protocol.
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If you're building anything that touches user data onchain, this is the @EFDevcon talk to sit in.
@Zac_Aztec will present what programmable privacy entails at the system level, from the perspective of the network that already shipped it.
Private state. Public network. Hard tradeoffs.
@Zac_Aztec, Co-founder of Aztec Network, is joining Devcon 8 to unpack what programmable privacy actually demands from the systems we build & where the toughest design choices show up.
Catch his talk in the Privacy & Consent track.
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Private transactions, proven in seconds.
@alejoamiras built Presto, a free application that runs the proving natively on your device, allowing Aztec or @NoirLang apps to prove up to 9x faster locally instead of running it through the browser.
Presto is out ✦ (previously known as Aztec Accelerator)
It sits in your menu bar, and any Aztec or Noir app you open just… gets faster. Native proving, nothing to configure.
For devs it's 3 lines of code. For users, one install.
presto.build 🧵
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Get more info and download Presto here:
If you use Aztec apps: get Presto. macOS, Linux, Windows. Free.
Then open the playground and watch the same proof twice.
presto.build
playground.presto.build
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Aztec retweeted
We have the technology to solve this. Zero knowledge proofs and private networks like @aztecnetwork enable non-custodial data where products keep sensitive data with the *user* and zk proofs do all the checks
Woke up to all my data leaked by @Revolut.
Sharp reminder that KYC hasn’t produced meaningful upside and has put many in harm’s way.
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642M ethereum:0xa27ec0006e59f245217ff08cd52a7e8b169e62d2 is locked by people who decided a privacy L2 should not have a single operator.
24% APR is what they earn to run the network.
Learn more at stake.aztec.network/
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Aztec built technology that currently empowers individuals to privately manage the information they share and send fully private transactions all from their own devices.
If that's not incredible, than what is? Your privacy should belong to YOU, not a server operator.
Your privacy shouldn't depend on the indiscretions of a server operator.
with Aztec your laptop is your fortress, proving private transactions without giving that operator your secrets. This isn't scifi tech it's working right now on our main-net.
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Aztec retweeted
Amen to that. Aztec has these features from day 1 of our launch. If you want to explore further look up our docs, or check out what others have built at @nyxmoney @humntech @ZKPassport @DFArchon @azguardwallet
It’s cool. I’d be missing a trick if I didn’t say:
We already built Aztec to provide these features to Ethereum at the start of the year.
- Native account abstraction;
- Native fee abstraction (pay via any kind of function);
- Nullifiers as nonces;
- Recent roots;
- Inclusion of all private txs;
(Plus extras: function privacy; private composition of private functions; composition with external snarks; fast client-side recursive proofs in a phone browser; tailor-made private smart contract syntax; cheaper than L1, more things)
Unstoppable, unconditional, trustless privacy is already achieved on Ethereum with Aztec.
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Zcash gives you private bitcoin.
Aztec gives you private ethereum.
It's that simple. And nobody else comes close.
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Also a big shout out to @aztecnetwork and the @NoirLang team! They have persevered for over 8 years doing extremely laborious uphill R&D work and we are happy to use their tools in ProveKit and contribute to Noir development
We have been working very hard over the last two years to build ProveKit! A new zero knowledge proving toolkit built on top of Noir. It already powers the World ID protocol and makes it perform well on low end devices, is post quantum secure and fast! world.org/blog/engineering/p…
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Escrow, payroll, credit checks: the data behind them is private, so the logic never reaches Ethereum.
Aztec keeps that data encrypted onchain and uses it as a precondition for settlement. No permissioned party in the middle.
Start building on Aztec today.
Many transactions depend on data that should not be public. Aztec lets encrypted data become a precondition for settling value onchain. That creates a permissionless backend for applications that still depend on financial or web2 intermediaries.
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Private identity using ZKPassport just got a major upgrade.
@ZKPassport (acquired by @AztecLabs_) allows you to privately confirm passport data using Aztec's programming language, @NoirLang.
And now even the uniqueness check is private, thanks to @TACEO_IO.
Full announcement is linked in the post below. 👇🏼
New: unlinkable on-chain identity.
You can now prove what's necessary on-chain, with no one, not even the authority that issued your passport / national ID, able to trace it back to you.
It now runs on @TACEO_IO 's oblivious network.
Sybil-resistant. On-chain. Unlinkable.
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Alpha V5 turned one month old last week and the apps on it are starting to report return usage rather than just launch-day numbers. Plus, our community continues to build on V5!
Here's the recap 🧵
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Community builders @TactfulCipher and @pittpv have been hard at work on programmable privacy voting apps. What are apps you'd like to see next on Alpha V5?
This is what it's all about.
Community member @TactfulCipher built a ZK voting app on both EVM and Aztec. Only Aztec Network empowered them to build it with private execution as a native part of the platform.
If you're building anything privacy-oriented, build it on Aztec.
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That's it for the past two weeks on Aztec! Follow us, @aztec_dev, @AztecFND and @NoirLang for all these updates in real time.
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