Vision
Privacy is a
creative force.
Privacy isn't just a human right, it's a tool for creativity. With privacy by default, the world of games, NFTs, and DeFi applications just got bigger..
We’re on a mission to protect individual rights and privacy
At Aztec we believe decentralization is premised on individual rights. Without widely accessible privacy, we compromise our ability to choose how we live our lives and earn our livelihoods.
How do we maintain our privacy guarantee?
Aztec is built from the ground up to be privacy-first. Our UTXO architecture, inspired by Bitcoin, allows for end-to-end encrypted transactions.
And our category-defining zero-knowledge research means privacy is fast and efficient.
Aztec History
Founding
Originally founded as Creditmint, a platform for institutional finance on blockchain.2017
PlonK
Zac Williamson and Ariel Gabizon publish the seminal paper on the universal zk-SNARK.2019
zk.money
Aztec launches zk.money, a multi-asset private payments platform with internal transfer functionality.2021
Connect
Flexible privacy comes to Ethereum for the first time ever with a set of tools making it easy to integrate privacy and scalability to any protocol.2022
Noir
A decentralized, programmably private smart contract platform secured by zkSNARKs.Future
Trust math, not people.
Aztec uses cutting edge zk-SNARK technology to protect user privacy while enabling fast, cheap transactions on Ethereum.
