🔥Aztec, a top-tier project that has raised over 100 million in funding, is finally coming! According to the latest news, @aztecnetwork, an Ethereum ecosystem-focused privacy-focused L2 project, will be at TGE on February 12th. Registration is now open; I'm not sure what it's for, but I'm doing it anyway. ① Click the link and enter your email address: tge.aztec.network ② Design your own airplane model ③ Download a GIF poster and share it on Twitter (remove "[attach your GIF]" and attach the GIF poster) It's hard to imagine that in today's world of chasing short-term trends and quick monetization, Aztec has been dedicated to the privacy field for eight years. The once-spirited experts and scholars in the team are no longer young, but their original intention remains unchanged: not for the sake of privacy, but because without privacy, blockchain cannot connect to the real world. For this reason, the Aztec team is regarded as a "Cypherpunk-style perseveranceist," with industry giants like Vitalik openly supporting them, and top institutions such as a16z, Paradigm, Consensys, and Coinbase investing over $100 million. In its latest TGE teaser tweet, Aztec aims to become the next Zcash, while hinting at the start of a new "arms race," which is quite different from the team's usual low-key style and gives off a feeling of accomplishment and dominance. In my opinion, Aztec has every right to say this because they possess top-tier resources and have independently built a complete technology stack for modern privacy computing. Almost all privacy projects use tools developed by Aztec (such as the PLONK proof system adopted by projects like zkSync and Polygon, and the Noir programming language widely used by ecosystem projects like Solana, Stellar, and StarkWare). Even traditional financial giants like JPMorgan Chase and RWA institutions are embracing Aztec. If Zcash is a privacy pioneer in the cryptocurrency field, then Aztec is a programmable Zcash, continuing and expanding the privacy paradigm pioneered by Zcash within the Ethereum ecosystem: using ZK technology to achieve optional privacy while addressing the limitations of Zcash in terms of programmability and interoperability. Regarding the upcoming TGE, I took a look at the token distribution and found that the team and investors' tokens need to be locked up for 1 year before being released linearly, which is in line with their consistent long-termism. Currently, nearly 90% of the tokens are in a staked state (large holders include well-known institutions such as Nansen, with a redemption period of 15 days), which means that the initial circulation is very small, and there may be secondary opportunities.

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