ZK rollup Aztec launches testnet today

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Enter Aztec Network, a zk rollup built on Ethereum (not to be confused with Aztec Connect, which was sunset in 2023). The public testnet launches today.

Publish date

May 1, 2025

Publisher

Blockworks

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https://blockworks.co/news/zk-rollup-aztec-launches-testnet-today

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Aztec Network launches public testnet

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Contrary to popular belief, most zk rollups do not actually leverage zero-knowledge tech for the purposes of privacy encryption, making it somewhat of a misnomer. Zk rollups today use the tech primarily for the size compression of transactions — for scaling throughput — without encrypting user data.

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We also built our own programming language, Noir, from scratch to compile programs directly into zero-knowledge circuits, which allows us to bypass the overheads seen with zero-knowledge virtual machines.

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