Aztec AZTEC
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CM Profile: Aztec
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about AZTEC, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 of AZTEC on Ethereum returned 1.5% less than the quoted price, on 3 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 24 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold AZTEC. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 4 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: the cost of selling on Ethereum, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell AZTEC
Selling $100,000 of AZTEC returned 1.5% less than the quoted price — Workable. Measured 2026-10-03 on Ethereum.
On the calendar for AZTEC
- Aztec: the twelve-month investor cliff — 12 February 2027, in 130 days
What Aztec is
Aztec is a privacy-focused Layer 2 network built on Ethereum. Its development is backed by a $100M Series B round led by a16z, and the team is composed of cryptographers who developed PLONK, a SNARK-based proving system published in 2019. The project describes itself as building infrastructure for applications that protect user privacy.
The technical foundation rests on two pieces of work from the Aztec team. PLONK is a proving system requiring only one universal trusted setup, which reduced the computational cost of zero-knowledge proofs and has since been adapted by other projects, giving rise to a broader "PLONKish" category of proving systems. Noir, a Rust-like language for writing zero-knowledge circuits, extends this work by letting developers write privacy-preserving logic without deep cryptography expertise; it is used by projects outside Aztec's own ecosystem, including on Solana and Stellar. The source also describes early testing by JP Morgan's Quorum team and adoption of Aztec's technology by the Taurus confidential token standard.
What's measurable here is more modest than the framing suggests. CoinGecko classifies Aztec under Smart Contract Platform, Layer 2, and Privacy Blockchain tags, among others, and it is deployed across Ethereum, HyperEVM, and Hyperliquid. Beyond that, there is no measured figure here for active usage, transaction volume, or the actual scale of the "institutional adoption" the source claims — a tested integration by a bank's internal team, or a standard "adopted by a leading institutional infrastructure provider," is not the same as production usage at scale, and the source gives no numbers to distinguish the two. PLONK's influence on other proving systems is a matter of academic and engineering record, not something that translates into a claim about Aztec the network's own traction. Noir's developer-ecosystem ranking comes from a third party (Electric Capital) and describes tooling adoption, not the L2 itself. Nothing in the source or the measured facts supports a statement about the network's current level of activity, decentralization, or security assumptions.
Where AZTEC lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Aztec data synced 82s ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell AZTEC.