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Aztec: Ethereum, encrypted

On Ethereum today, everything is publicly visible, by everyone.

In the real world, people enjoy privacy.

Aztec brings privacy to Ethereum.

Build with confidence.​

Design, build, and deploy private smart contracts with the following features:

  • Private functions
  • Private arguments
  • Private persistent state
  • Private bytecode
  • Private deployments
  • Private execution
  • Private transactions
  • Private contract composability
  • Encrypted state transitions
  • Encrypted logs

Plus:

  • Composability with Ethereum L1
  • Access to Ethereum's L1 liquidity
  • Cheap, public logic, if you need it
  • Cheap, public persistent state, if you need it

Play​

Visit the getting started section for an introduction.

Go to the Tutorials section to dive into some more advanced walkthroughs.

But what is Aztec?​

Aztec encrypts Ethereum.

Aztec is the privacy layer of Ethereum.

Aztec is a private smart contract platform.

Aztec is a fully programmable private smart contract platform.

Aztec is an Ethereum Layer 2.

Aztec is a zk-zk rollup.

Aztec is a hybrid private/public rollup.

Aztec is a network.

Still confused? Explore these docs!

Participate​

We are building the Aztec network in public. Keep up with the latest discussion and join the conversation in the Aztec forum and check out our code on Github.