$AZTEC Approximately two days until TGE (16:00, Thursday, February 12th, KST) Aztec is a project that is actually running L2 with "privacy as default" on Ethereum. What sets Aztec apart? Rather than adding privacy on top of a public chain, as is the case with existing platforms, Aztec aims to build a structure where privacy is the default from the smart contract level. PLONK and Noir are no longer just technologies for a select few projects; they are now the de facto standard stack used by most privacy and ZK projects. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) took notice of this trend, and Aztec secured a $100 million Series B investment led by a16z. Institutional demand for infrastructure that simultaneously satisfies privacy and compliance already exists in the TradFi, RWA, and stablecoin sectors. Official Page Official TGE Announcement Tweet Privacy is not an optional feature, but rather a fundamental requirement for expanding on-chain adoption. Aztec is one of the teams that has consistently prepared for this direction from a relatively early stage.