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Ethereum Foundation creates Privacy Cluster team to strengthen onchain privacy https://t.co/WYiY8w2Mst ...

The Ethereum Foundation’s privacy team, now rebranded as Privacy Stewards of Ethereum (PSE), has released a roadmap to enable end-to-end onchain privacy via private writes, reads, and proving. It includes a Layer 2 design, PlasmaFold, supporting private transfers, with a proof-of-concept expected by November’s Devconnect. https://t.co/LJFOmBuGhS ...

Overview of Aztec Network - Onchain privacy is gaining momentum with new funding, court cases, and technical advancements [1] - Aztec Network is a privacy-first Ethereum Layer 2 solution that supports both public and private smart contract functions [1][2] Technology and Architecture - Aztec uses a dual execution model: private smart contracts run client-side, public ones on Aztec's decentralized node network [2] - Interoperability between private and public computation is achieved through zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) [2] - Aztec uses its own language, Noir, instead of EVM compatibility, to enhance privacy without security tradeoffs [2][3] - The Private Execution Environment (PXE) is Aztec's client-side privacy engine, managing secrets, building transactions, and tracking private assets [3][4][5] - The Aztec Virtual Machine (AVM) runs public smart contract logic and communicates with PXE for hybrid logic [5][6] Functionality and Use Cases - Hybrid logic enables public price data for private swaps and public NFT auctions settling to private addresses [6] - Aztec rollups compress both private and public transactions into batches, posting them with proofs to Ethereum [6] Development and Testing - Aztec has launched its "Adversarial Testnet" as a permissionless trial ahead of its upcoming mainnet [1] - Tools available for testing include Aztec Sandbox (local dev environment) and Aztec Playground (browser tool) [7][8] - Users can join the Validator Set by registering with ZKPassport and running nodes [8]