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Aztec Documentation

What is Aztec?​

Aztec is a Privacy-First L2 on Ethereum​

On Ethereum today, everything is publicly visible, by everyone. In the real world, people enjoy privacy. Aztec brings privacy to Ethereum.

  • private functions, executed and proved on a user's device
  • public functions, executed in the Aztec Virtual Machine
  • private state, stored as UTXOs that only the owner can decrypt
  • public state, stored in a public merkle tree
  • composability between private/public execution and private/public state
  • public and private messaging with Ethereum

To make this possible, Aztec is not EVM compatible and is extending the Ethereum ecosystem by creating a new alt-VM!

To learn more about how Aztec achieves these things, check out the Aztec concepts overview.

Start coding​

Follow the getting started guide to start developing with the Aztec Sandbox.

Learn how Aztec works​

Learn the core concepts that make up the Aztec Protocol.