Zac

@Zac_Aztec

Co-founder of Aztec Network. Building the Private World Computer. Cryptographer, software engineer, ex-particle physicist. Plonk co-author. Huff inventor.

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Joined July 2018

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Zac
@Zac_Aztec
8h
hi bay area folks! some of you might know i’ve been spending a lot more time in california lately :) i’m in mountain view now and will be in SF this friday. would love to spend my next few days meet people thinking about crypto infra in the age of AI, privacy-preserving
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Zac
@Zac_Aztec
Sep 8
Amen to that. Aztec has these features from day 1 of our launch. If you want to explore further look up our docs, or check out what others have built at @nyxmoney @humntech @ZKPassport @DFArchon @azguardwallet
Mike Connor
@mike_connor
Sep 7
It’s cool. I’d be missing a trick if I didn’t say: We already built Aztec to provide these features to Ethereum at the start of the year. - Native account abstraction; - Native fee abstraction (pay via any kind of function); - Nullifiers as nonces; - Recent roots; - Inclusion
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Zac
@Zac_Aztec
Sep 5
Celo and Inco shipped a useful gated testnet beta: shield, send and unshield on the same rails. The larger test comes next. Can encrypted state reach payroll, swaps, credit and auctions without the TEE compute server becoming a decryption gate?
Celo
@Celo
Aug 27
🔐 @inconetwork, a full-stack blockchain privacy layer, just launched on the Celo Sepolia testnet! Inco gives users a private asset layer on a Celo-supported wallet, allowing balances to stay private
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Zac
@Zac_Aztec
Sep 5
Love this design from @humntech. Squid Mode carries one policy across EVM, Sui and Solana. Its enclave and Ika’s validator threshold must both sign, so agents, rebalancing and payouts do not depend on one signer.
human.tech
@humntech
Aug 29
"The new human.tech Wallet Protocol expansion marks a major milestone in commercial applied cryptography. It is the first commercial application of 2PC-MPC threshold signing between two parties, where one is a standard enclave, and the other (@ikadotxyz) is a
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Zac
@Zac_Aztec
Sep 4
OpenWater gets the key design right: humanity is a bundle of claims, not one corporate credential. Governance should build on that. Aztec private notes can represent contribution, operation and membership without a public identity history.
Ben Goertzel
@bengoertzel
Aug 28
Proposing “OpenWater Proof of Humanity” -- a design for an open, fully decentralized network in which many devices, manufacturers, certifiers and privacy systems contribute evidence of humanness.
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Proof of Humanity: Beyond the Orb
A few days ago one of my collaborators on the Mindplex.ai project asked me how we should be dealing with the proof-of-humanity problem — how, on an internet rapidly filling up with capable...
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