Aztec

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About Aztec (Aztec)

Aztec Network is a privacy-focused Ethereum Layer 2 solution that enables developers to build fully private smart contracts and decentralized applications using zero-knowledge cryptography.

Key Points:

• Raised over $170 million from investors including Paradigm, a16z, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

• Conducting a public token sale from December 2-6, 2025, aiming to raise approximately $50 million at a $350 million fully diluted valuation.

• Allocated tokens remain locked and non-transferable until at least February 11, 2026.

What Is Aztec?

Aztec Network is building a highly anticipated encrypted public blockchain as an Ethereum Layer 2 solution. The project enables privacy-preserving smart contracts and decentralized applications through zkSNARKs (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge), which allow users to prove information without revealing it. Unlike privacy-focused blockchains that only enable private transfers, Aztec offers programmable privacy where developers can build complex applications with built-in confidentiality for transaction amounts, sender and receiver identities, and smart contract execution states.

Key Differentiators

• Programmable Privacy: Unlike Zcash or Monero which focus primarily on private transfers, Aztec enables developers to build complex decentralized applications with built-in privacy, including lending protocols, decentralized exchanges, and voting systems.

• Encrypted Public Blockchain: Combines public participation and verification with encrypted data, allowing anyone to run nodes and verify proofs while keeping transaction amounts, smart contract states, and user balances encrypted.

• Compliance-Friendly Design: Built with selective disclosure capabilities, enabling users to maintain privacy by default while providing specific information to regulators or auditors when required, making it suitable for institutional adoption.

• Layer 2 Scalability: Inherits Ethereum's security while offering lower transaction costs and higher throughput, with final settlement on Ethereum mainnet.

What Can You Use Aztec For?

• Private DeFi: Trade, lend, and borrow without exposing positions, strategies, portfolio holdings, or financial activity to the public, protecting users from front-running and competitive intelligence gathering.

• Confidential Voting and Governance: Participate in on-chain voting where individual votes remain encrypted while final tallies are publicly verifiable, preventing vote buying and social pressure.

• Private NFTs and Digital Assets: Own valuable assets, track supply chains, or hold credentials without advertising ownership or revealing unnecessary personal information.

• Enterprise Blockchain Applications: Enable businesses to use public blockchain infrastructure while protecting sensitive information like supplier relationships, pricing, customer data, and trade secrets.

How Does Aztec Work?

Aztec functions as a Layer 2 solution built on top of Ethereum, processing transactions off the main chain to reduce costs and increase speed. The network uses zkSNARKs to create cryptographic proofs that validate transactions and smart contract executions without revealing the underlying data. 

When users interact with Aztec applications, their transaction amounts, identities, and smart contract states remain encrypted even though the proofs are publicly verifiable. These encrypted transactions are bundled together and periodically settled on Ethereum mainnet for maximum security. The architecture allows developers to write smart contracts in Noir, Aztec's programming language designed for privacy-preserving applications, enabling the full suite of DeFi products with confidentiality built in from the ground up.

Team Info and Investors

Aztec Network was founded in 2018 by Zac Williamson, a former software engineer at Rothschild & Co., and Tom Walton-Pocock. The project has raised over $170 million in total funding from notable investors including Paradigm, a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The AZTEC token has a maximum supply of 10.35 billion tokens, with 14.95% allocated for the pre-sale. The core team and early investors are subject to governance restrictions for 12 months and the team has a 36-month lockup and vesting schedule.

Where can you buy Aztec?

AZTEC tokens can be traded on centralized crypto exchanges. The most popular exchange to buy and trade Aztec is Bybit, where the most active trading pair AZTEC/USDT has a trading volume of $394,168.91 in the last 24 hours. Other popular options include Gate and Coinbase Exchange.

What is the daily trading volume of Aztec (AZTEC)?

The trading volume of Aztec (AZTEC) is $5,440,034.15 in the last 24 hours, representing a -21.70% decrease from one day ago and signalling a recent fall in market activity. Check out CoinGecko’s list of highest volume cryptocurrencies.

What is the highest and lowest price for Aztec (AZTEC)?

Aztec (AZTEC) reached an all-time high of $0.03990 and an all-time low of $0.01766. It’s now trading -50.00% below that peak and 12.80% above its lowest price.

What is the market cap of Aztec (AZTEC)?

Market capitalization of Aztec (AZTEC) is $58,918,793 and is ranked #399 on CoinGecko today. Market cap is measured by multiplying token price with the circulating supply of AZTEC tokens (2.9 Billion tokens are tradable on the market today).

What is the fully diluted valuation of Aztec (AZTEC)?

The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Aztec (AZTEC) is $206,937,416. This is a statistical representation of the maximum market cap, assuming the maximum number of 10 Billion AZTEC tokens are in circulation today. Depending on how the emission schedule of AZTEC tokens are designed, it might take multiple years before FDV is realized.

How does the price performance of Aztec compare against its peers?

With a price decline of -9.30% in the last 7 days, Aztec (AZTEC) is underperforming the global cryptocurrency market which is down -1.00%, while underperforming when compared to similar Smart Contract Platform cryptocurrencies which are down -3.00%.

How to add Aztec (AZTEC) to MetaMask?

Adding Aztec (AZTEC) to MetaMask allows you to view your token holdings, trade on decentralized exchanges, and more. To add them, you’ll need to import AZTEC as a token. You can copy AZTEC’s contract address (0xa27ec0006e59f245217ff08cd52a7e8b169e62d2) and import it manually, or if you've installed MetaMask's chrome extension, add AZTEC to MetaMask with one click on CoinGecko.

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