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.