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Privacy on Ethereum is already here.
Aztec is the L2 that allows developers with no prior cryptography background to build smart contracts with private identity, data, and compute.
Read how Aztec delivers granular programmable privacy to Ethereum: aztec.network/blog/the-aztec…
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This week on Aztec: Stage 2 on @l2beat, a walkthrough of private composability, and a new essay from @Zac_Aztec on why privacy needs decentralization.
Here's the recap 🧵
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Builders continue to ship products on Aztec: The @nyxmoney team chose Aztec for our ground-up programmable privacy, @noirlang, native account abstraction, and on-device zk proofs.
What will you build on aztec?
We believe in the original cypherpunk promise: that cryptography can give people online privacy and financial freedom that no government or corporation can take away.
Ethereum is only 0.1% private today. We're building Nyx because privacy is the part of the promise that needs the most work.
We looked at the available options to deliver on privacy. Here are the top 3 reasons we’re building Nyx on @aztecnetwork 🧵
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That's it for the week of June 26, 2026 on Aztec! Follow us, @aztec_dev, @AztecFND and @NoirLang for all these updates in real time.
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The @nyxmoney team is one of many incredible projects that chose to build on Aztec thanks to our ground-up programmable privacy.
What will you build on Aztec?
We believe in the original cypherpunk promise: that cryptography can give people online privacy and financial freedom that no government or corporation can take away.
Ethereum is only 0.1% private today. We're building Nyx because privacy is the part of the promise that needs the most work.
We looked at the available options to deliver on privacy. Here are the top 3 reasons we’re building Nyx on @aztecnetwork 🧵
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On Ethereum, apps build on top of each other in the open.
On Aztec, they can do it privately. Contracts call other contracts, and the call stack itself stays hidden. No one watching the chain learns which app touched which.
@CiaraNightingal explains private composability 👇
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Be sure to subscribe to both Aztec and @CiaraNightingal on YouTube for content like this, plus much more! piped.video/watch?v=idxRuGQn…
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Notice to Alpha V4 users:
V5 is coming, which hardens the network's security and ramps up performance. However, once V5 is brought to governance, any vulnerabilities that could affect the V4 network will be publicly visible.
As a precaution, users should remove funds currently held on Aztec V4 before June 25th.
No action is required if you are staking or holding the $AZTEC token.
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"A company wants a moat. A settlement layer wants surface area."
In his newest piece, @Zac_Aztec explores why decentralization becomes more important, not less, when privacy enters the equation, and why programmable privacy must be built into the architecture itself rather than layered on afterward.
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Aztec just hit Stage 2 on @l2beat.
Onchain governance revoked ownership of the rollup contract.
The code is immutable, no admin can override the protocol, and users can always exit via the escape hatch.
Aztec is the only decentralized L2 with privacy native to the protocol.
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Aztec retweeted
Very excited by the creation of @ethlabs_org. Ethereum as the settlement layer of the global economy is the right north star.
Settlement needs credible neutrality, DeFi, ETH - and PRIVACY as a first-class primitive.
That’s why we’re building Aztec.
Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH
Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy.
The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure.
Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation.
What we believe:
• We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person.
• We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum.
• We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone.
• We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them.
We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products.
Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future.
We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development.
We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong.
We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: join@ethlabs.org
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Aztec retweeted
Thrilled to support in my own small way the further decentralisation of Ethereum.
The more organisations that are contributing meaningfully to the network the more resilient and robust it will become.
The internet took the same path.
This is a big step for Ethereum.
Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH
Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy.
The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure.
Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation.
What we believe:
• We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person.
• We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum.
• We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone.
• We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them.
We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products.
Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future.
We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development.
We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong.
We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: join@ethlabs.org
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This week on Aztec: a new identity partnership with @GalacticaNet, plus a 90-second intro to what Aztec actually is.
Here's the recap 🧵
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ICYMI: Noir has been publishing technical guides like these, with plenty more to come over the coming weeks! Comment below the post with what (or who) you'd like to see @NoirLang cover.
Two commands stand between your Noir circuit and any EVM chain:
bb write_vk -b ./target/program.json -o ./target --oracle_hash keccak
bb write_solidity_verifier -k ./target/vk -o ./target/Verifier.sol
That’s a deployable Solidity verifier contract. Your proofs, verified onchain, on the chains your users already live on.
Guide → barretenberg.aztec.network/d…
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For real-time updates like these and more, be sure to follow @aztecnetwork, @aztec_dev, @aztecFND and @NoirLang.
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