Introducing Aztec Tierra (Alpha V6). The platform for unstoppable private apps is here. Ethereum's only decentralized L2, with fully programmable privacy: permissionless, private smart contracts. No backdoors. No gatekeepers.

Unstoppable means no one holds the keys. Aztec is Ethereum's only fully decentralized L2. 3,000+ validators. No centralized sequencer. No single-party control. A Stage 2 rollup built to keep running even if its creators walk away. Decentralization isn't a roadmap. It's here.

Private means private. No backdoors. No viewing keys. No privileged operators. No one at the network level can see your private transactions. Your information stays yours. Not because an operator promises to protect it. Because the network is designed so they can't access it.

Apps means fully programmable privacy. Not just private transfers or another privacy wrapper. Real, composable smart contracts where developers decide what's private and what's public. Payments. Trading. AI. DeFi. Anything. Privacy without limits on what you can create.

And those apps are already taking shape. and nyx are bringing private payments and savings to Ethereum. Galactica is building private AI. We’ll be breaking down the apps over the coming days. A new ecosystem of private apps starts here.

Aztec Tierra is built on a stronger foundation. Major security upgrades. Formal verification of core cryptographic components. A new AI-powered security testing harness. Plus client-side proofs in as little as 1 second on native. Powerful privacy. Serious infrastructure.

Everything runs on ethereum:0xa27ec0006e59f245217ff08cd52a7e8b169e62d2. Every transaction requires ethereum:0xa27ec0006e59f245217ff08cd52a7e8b169e62d2 for gas. Validators stake ethereum:0xa27ec0006e59f245217ff08cd52a7e8b169e62d2 to secure the network. Token holders participate in decentralized governance. As the ecosystem grows, the token powers the activity underneath it.

Private apps don't need another centralized platform deciding who gets access, what stays private, or what can be built. They need infrastructure that's unstoppable. Today, we're launching Aztec Tierra and a new identity for the platform built to deliver it. Freedom to move unseen.

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I am once again asking for the allegedly finished security audit.

let's go, added more short

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let's go

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13 November pump 😂?

looks cool, congrats!

One second proofs on a phone is a real threshold for private apps. Curious how you see apps that need shared private state, like a sealed-bid auction where no one user holds every bid.

Tierra is the kind of upgrade operators feel right away. Sub-12s confirmations and proofs twice as fast mean privacy stops feeling like a tradeoff for users. As a sequencer operator, faster proving is the change we notice most 🛡️

Zac walked through the private state model on Lotus Stage at Devcon today. With Tierra live, what's the first private app you expect that couldn't exist on a public L2?

Lmao

Private smart contracts are the hard part, since private state means proofs get generated on the user's side. The real UX test is how long a private transaction takes on an ordinary phone. Did Alpha V6 move that number?

I am alive! 🔥

@game_for_one i think it's big news