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- A New Brand for a New Era of Aztec
Aztec Network has unveiled a new brand to highlight its full-stack privacy-native network and the builders creating applications on it. The article says the project created the Plonk cryptography and the Noir programming language, and that its testnet is live with thousands of active users. The new identity includes a wordmark in which each letter draws on a different era of communication history, and a layered diamond icon representing sensitive data, the privacy layer, the builder community and mainstream adoption. Town halls for the community start September 4 at 8 AM PT, then continue every Thursday at 7 AM PT.
- A New Era for Web3: Introducing Aztec Public Testnet
Aztec has launched its Public Testnet, opening it to developers who want to build fully private applications on Ethereum. The network will launch fully decentralized from day one, because Aztec says true privacy requires no central entity with potential backdoor access. Developers can combine private functions run on the client side with public functions run by sequencers, and the fastest start is deploying a contract through the Playground. Node operators can run sequencers on consumer hardware, and the testnet is meant to stress-test the network ahead of a more robust mainnet.
- Can Blockchains And Zero-knowledge Help Humanity Survive?
The article argues that blockchains combined with zero-knowledge cryptography and privacy-preserving design can make the digital part of people's lives robust against loss, control, or destruction by governments, corporations, or AGI. It states that most daily life is now digital, with 6 hours and 58 minutes of average daily screen time and most documents, communications and work stored in cloud services or company servers, which it says places 99.9% of the digital self outside personal control. It proposes four required properties, permissionlessness, immutability, verifiability and privacy, and says Ethereum, with 5,912 nodes as of 15 April 2024, can serve as a shared, immutable ledger base.
- Announcing the Alpha Network
Aztec has launched Alpha, which it describes as a fully feature-complete, privacy-first network for building private applications. The network, which went live in November 2025 as the Aztec Ignition Chain, is run by its community rather than Aztec Labs or the Aztec Foundation, and entered Alpha after a unanimous community vote. Developers can choose which data, identity, and compute elements stay private, write contracts in Noir and Aztec.nr, and settle proofs to Ethereum L1. Aztec notes that this early version has known vulnerabilities and that upgrades will follow on the path to Beta.
- How to Enable Age Verification on the Internet Today Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Dark Forest Aztec is a real-time strategy game on Aztec that ports Dark Forest 0.6 and uses zero-knowledge proofs to keep players' positions and moves hidden on a public network, and it is currently an experimental alpha (Aztec Alpha V5). Players prove moves are legal against onchain Poseidon2 hash commitments without revealing where their planets or fleets are. Scoring in this round comes from discovering artifacts with a Gear ship, where a Mythic artifact is worth 20,000,000 points, and from withdrawing silver through Spacetime Rips at 1 point per unit.