# What $AZTEC does

> Participate in and secure an open network. $AZTEC pays fees, supports staking, rewards sequencers and provers, and gives tokenholders a vote on upgrades.

Canonical: https://aztec.network/token  
Type: Page summary  
Publisher: Aztec Foundation

## Figures

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| Standard | An ERC-20 on Ethereum, bridged to Aztec to pay for gas |
| Total supply | 10.35B, 18 decimals |
| Minimum stake | 200,000 $AZTEC per validator, staked directly or delegated |
| Reward split | 70 / 30, proposers to provers, per checkpoint |
| Contract | 0xA27EC0006e59f245217Ff08CD52A7E8b169E62D2 |

## Questions

### What is $AZTEC used for?

Four things: paying transaction fees on the network, staking to run a sequencer that proposes and validates blocks, voting on protocol upgrades, and rewarding the sequencers and provers who do the work. It is an ERC-20 on Ethereum with a minimum stake of 200,000 tokens per validator.

Reviewed 21 September 2026  
Sources: [docs.aztec.network](https://docs.aztec.network/participate/token)

### Is $AZTEC a private coin?

No, $AZTEC is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, the utility token of the Aztec Network. All transactions on the Aztec Network are underpinned by the $AZTEC token, which must be bridged to Aztec to pay for gas.

Reviewed 2 November 2026  
Sources: [docs.aztec.network](https://docs.aztec.network/participate/token)

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