Roadmap

Shipped,
in progress,
and next.

Shipping a secure, permissionless, decentralized base layer with private smart contracts on Ethereum.

Live on Ethereum.

  1. November
    2025

    Ignition Chain

    The decentralised base layer goes live: community-run sequencers and provers producing and proving blocks on Ethereum, with no operator in the middle.

  2. 12 February
    2026

    $AZTEC token generation

    Triggered by an onchain governance vote rather than by a company. Staking, delegation, and voting open to every holder.

  3. 31 March
    2026

    Alpha Network

    Transactions switch on. The first Layer 2 with a full execution environment for private smart contracts: private data, private identity, private compute.

  4. 21 July
    2026

    Alpha V5

    Approved by tokenholder vote. Client-side proving about twice as fast, a fully private transfer for under $0.05, and average block time down from 14 seconds to 6.

  5. Nov 3
    2026

    Aztec Tierra (Alpha V6)

Being worked on.

  1. Q1
    2027

    Alpha V7

    The next version of the network, focused on speed and security.

What comes after.

  1. ~Q2
    2027

    Beta V1

    The hardened, production-ready version of the network

Every upgrade is decided in public.