Morning Edition · Friday, August 7, 2026Published at 10:25 AM EDT · New York

Aztec Ships Alpha V5, Cutting Private Ethereum Transaction Proving Time to 2.5 Seconds on a Laptop

The privacy-focused layer-2 network says the update halves its proving-cost parameter, cuts the gas needed to verify a rollup proof by roughly 40 percent, and now proves a fully private transaction directly on a user's own device.

Aztec Network, a privacy-focused layer-2 built on Ethereum, released Alpha V5, an update the team says cuts the time to generate a fully private transaction proof by more than half, to roughly 2.5 seconds on an ordinary laptop, while droppi…