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zk.money is back.
In 2021, zk.money brought private transactions to Ethereum: 75,000+ wallets and $100M in volume.
Today it relaunches on the fully decentralized Aztec Network.
Claim your tag now 👇
zk.money is back.
A self-custodial wallet that lets you send and receive crypto privately.
Your money, private by default.
Reserve your unique tag to get started.
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Permissionless, programmable, unstoppable privacy.
Top things that will be possible on Aztec via zk.money this year:
1. Savings vaults
2. Bank / IBAN payouts
3. Fund L2 accounts privately
4. Zero knowledge passport proofs to unlock larger limits with @ZKPassport
6. Pots and group bills
7. More passkey support / accounts types
8. Mobile apps
9. Delegated account access to agents
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Aztec retweeted
Congratulations to @zk_money on launching a private, self-custodial, and open source wallet. The Ethereum ecosystem is at its best when builders don't compromise on these core values
zk.money is back.
A self-custodial wallet that lets you send and receive crypto privately.
Your money, private by default.
Reserve your unique tag to get started.
launch.zk.money
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Formal verification of Aztec’s cryptography is underway.
We've completed formal verification of major components of our proving system & our workflow for formally verifying the Aztec stack is quickly accelerating.
Stay tuned for more updates with the upcoming Alpha V6 release
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Aztec retweeted
Ethereum has a privacy problem hiding in plain sight.
Every payment can expose your wallet, balance, transaction history, and counterparties.
@aztecnetwork's bet: privacy becomes Ethereum’s “HTTPS moment” - not a niche feature, but the infrastructure that finally makes onchain finance usable at scale.
FT @BitcoinJesusETH @jaosef
⏱ TIME POINTS ⏱
00:00 - Intro
01:11 - What Is Aztec?
05:11 - PRO
05:34 - Why Crypto Payments Are Public
09:00 - What Is ZK.money?
10:16 - What Comes After Payments?
12:20 - Why ZK.money Is Back
15:10 - Aztec vs Zcash
17:52 - Why Build on Ethereum?
21:11 - Is Ethereum a Competitor?
23:46 - Sponsor: Nexo
24:22 - Privacy for Users, Institutions & AI
28:00 - Are Institutions Ready for Onchain?
30:21 - Can the Zcash Rally Continue?
33:07 - How the Aztec Token Captures Value
35:56 - Private Payments for AI Agents
39:34 - Where to Follow Joe & Try ZK.money
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zk.money is back.
In 2021, zk.money brought private transactions to Ethereum: 75,000+ wallets and $100M in volume.
Today it relaunches on the fully decentralized Aztec Network.
Claim your tag now 👇
zk.money is back.
A self-custodial wallet that lets you send and receive crypto privately.
Your money, private by default.
Reserve your unique tag to get started.
launch.zk.money
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Coverage from Gizmodo:
Privacy Crypto Wallet Is Bringing Anonymous Payments to Stablecoins. Will Regulators Allow It? gizmodo.com/privacy-crypto-w…
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1,500 tags reserved on zk.money in 24 hours.
Names are first come, first served and resolve through @ENSdomains. If you want a specific one, now is the time.
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Two people paying the same zk.money tag get different deposit addresses. Neither can tell they paid the same person.
One name to share. A new destination underneath every time.
.@zk_money is back, with ENS-powered names.
The relaunched private payments wallet lets users claim tags like joe.zk.money, giving them a human-readable way to send and receive funds without making their financial history public by default. 🧵
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zk.money adds privacy to Ethereum.
Send USDC, USDT, or DAI from any exchange or Ethereum wallet to a tag like bob.zk.money.
The tag resolves via ENS to a deposit address.
Every txn you make from that tag inside zk.money is private.
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Aztec retweeted
Aztec relaunches zk.money privacy wallet on its Ethereum Layer 2 theblock.co/news/defi/2026-0…
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Aztec retweeted
Bitcoin researchers just proposed pivoting Bitcoin into... Aztec, amid all the privacy hype.
a new Shielded Bitcoin proposal wants to bring private $BTC transfers directly to Bitcoin L1, without changing Bitcoin consensus.
• encrypted notes
• nullifiers
• Merkle trees
• ZK proofs
Bitcoin itself mostly acts as the publication + ordering layer.
the shielded state gets reconstructed and verified above it.
sounds familiar?
private state → notes
spending private state → nullifiers
validity → ZK proofs
read access → viewing keys
the difference is where they stop.
Shielded Bitcoin uses this architecture for one narrow job: private $BTC transfers.
@aztecnetwork takes the same general model much further: programmable private state + private execution.
and the most interesting part?
the paper itself points to Aztec’s direction as extremely important, while acknowledging that general private execution is significantly more complex than private transfers.
not bad for project with token ethereum:0xa27ec0006e59f245217ff08cd52a7e8b169e62d2 sitting at a ~$49m market cap, roughly 535x smaller than Zcash, 120x smaller than NEAR, and ~5x smaller than Zama?
Bitcoin is slowly trying to make a machine built for transparent money do things it was never really designed for.
maybe instead of bolting wings onto a car, at some point you just use the plane that was built to fly?
Developers just figured out a way to hide who sent bitcoin, who received it, and how much moved, without changing Bitcoin itself.
This new proposed idea is not a fork around the protocol or new cryptocurrency. This is how Bitcoin was designed, a base layer people can innovate on without asking permission.
On Thursday, researcher Misha Komarov and colleagues published Shielded Bitcoin, a Zcash-style shielded pool for Bitcoin’s base layer.
Encrypted notes and zero-knowledge proofs ride along in ordinary Bitcoin transactions. Separate software checks that no coins are created from nothing and none are spent twice.
There is no company running the pool, no sidechain, and no soft fork. Funds go in and out through cryptographic vaults Komarov has been building, called PIPEs, so no federation has to hold the bitcoin.
Miners do not enforce the privacy rules. Invalid shielded data can still land in a block, indexers simply ignore it.
The trade is: Bitcoin stays conservative, and the experiment lives on top of it. If it works, private transfers arrive the way most of Bitcoin’s best ideas have, not by rewriting the constitution, but by building on the settlement layer everyone already trusts.
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Doubling down with you.
Private smart contracts, settled to Ethereum, live right now.
This is what Aztec was built for.
It's only dead if you give up
I'm not giving up on privacy. I'm doubling down.
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Fully decentralized ✅
Fully private ✅
Fully programmable public/private smart contracts ✅
If you care about privacy, you should care about Aztec.
Privacy szn always leads back to Aztec
Fully decentralized
Fully private
Fully programmable with public/private smart contracts
In alpha, but we've got some of the best teams in the space building and planning for upcoming stable releases
Couldn't be more excited for what's to come
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