Since Aztec's launch seven years ago, we’ve been on a mission to solve one of the biggest barriers to mass blockchain adoption – privacy.
The journey towards building a fully decentralized, privacy-preserving network is a massive undertaking. From the beginning, we’ve been committed to building in the open and involving our community in major decisions through discussions, grants, and ongoing builder competitions.
Our team and community have worked tirelessly to bring this vision to life, and their efforts have paid off. In August of this year, we delivered the first major milestone towards our vision by unveiling a live Aztec Devnet. Many puzzle pieces came together to reach this stage, including developing a novel proving system (Honk), creating an intuitive zk programming language (Noir), and building a private execution environment (PXE) to generate private, client-side proofs.
Together, these components unlock one of the most powerful missing pieces for protecting user data on blockchains: client-side zk proof generation. Developers don’t need to struggle to implement these privacy features - they can simply specify which functions will run privately and which will run publicly.
But privacy is only half of the story. We are committed to decentralizing every aspect of the network, from sequencers and provers all the way to settlement on Ethereum. In September, we launched an early Provernet, a decentralized network of provers generating zk proofs for Aztec transactions. We were amazed by the passion of the participants to generate efficient proofs and contribute towards a decentralized future for the network.
Now imagine a world where both of these elements, privacy and decentralization, are seamlessly brought together. Where developers can write programs that protect user data but take full advantage of a trustless, permissionless system – all backed by the security of Ethereum.
This is what we’re working towards, and this product roadmap is how we get there.
Join us Thursday, October 10th at 9 a.m. PST on X to hear more about our road to mainnet from our Co-Founders, Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews. Stay updated on all things Noir and Aztec by following Noir and Aztec on X, and join the Aztec developer community on Discord.
