Morning Edition · Sunday, July 12, 2026Published at 1:29 AM EDT · New York

Aztec Details How Its Layer-2 Hides Sender, Receiver, and Amount While Still Proving Validity

The network executes and proves transactions on the user's own device and publishes only a validity proof, part of an effort to make confidential execution a requirement for serious on-chain use.

Aztec, a privacy-focused Ethereum layer-2 network, published a technical walkthrough of what happens inside one of its transactions. The core design keeps private computation on the user's device. The wallet executes the logic locally, gene…