Privacy projectAztec has built private smart contracts for Ethereum since 2017. Its first product shut down after less than a year, the abandoned contracts later lost 2.1 million dollars to an exploit, and the new network launched in late 2025 to months of empty blocks before Alpha V5 activated on mainnet in July 2026, bringing private transactions live with fees under five cents. Private state is per-user notes, so the shared private state institutions need stays structurally out of reach.
Private by design.
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