Co-founder of Aztec Network. Building the Private World Computer. Cryptographer, software engineer, ex-particle physicist. Plonk co-author. Huff inventor.
Excited to announce my new company: @OffworldPrivacy
We take private crypto assets, like @Zcash , and put them in private DeFi on @HeliusPrivacy and @aztecnetwork
First products: trust-minimized shielded Zcash bridge and private lending protocols
DM for the investment memo
Call for feedback on paylinks in @zk_money
Paylinks are a great way to pay a friend, colleague or family when you owe them $'s. They can withdraw to https://t.co/1ghZk0uAOC or directly to their ethereum wallet (iban soooooon).
Oh and they will never see your balance, because it's Private by default!
Here is one for the first lucky user: https://t.co/1EfIolrMpp
New @aztecnetwork Feature, Next Casberi Release:
Private Gas
Today
On Aztec, a private send hides who you paid and how much. It still showed who paid the fee.
Tomorrow
Casberi now pays Aztec gas through the ecosystem’s shared private fee contract. The payer on your send is the contract, the same as everyone else’s. No AZTEC needed either: a little of what you move buys the gas.
Keep it Moving, Privately.
I am maintaining a community version of bb that is ~30% faster here: https://t.co/gCdFuCqHzZ.
2 line installation instructions in the readme. You at your own risk.
cc @nyxmoney@zk_money@alexanderchopan@humntech
𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐳𝐭𝐞𝐜 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐀𝐩𝐩 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.
and before you send money, it tells you exactly which parts of that transaction will be public.
trust me to put you on...
it's called 𝐍𝐮𝐥𝐨, and it launched for Chrome and Firefox on November 4, alongside Aztec's Tierra upgrade.
i came across it while looking through the Apps section of @aztecnetwork's new website.
and there's a lot more going on here than another wallet extension.
say you're using a dApp, with Nulo, connecting doesn't automatically hand over your account information. you choose which account the application gets access to, and every transaction it requests still needs your approval.
you can even go back and revoke those permissions.
but there's also another detail i like.
before approving a payment, Nulo shows whether the sender, recipient, and amount will remain private or become public.
not after you've sent it. before.
because there's a difference between being told a network supports privacy and actually knowing what your particular transaction is revealing.
Nulo puts that information in front of you while you can still make a decision.
and the technical side is worth mentioning too.
your keys stay on your device, and transaction proofs can be generated locally in your browser.
the wallet is also open-source, with no Nulo account signup or telemetry according to its developers.
i like the direction they're taking.
we've spent years making crypto wallets better at showing balances, tokens, transaction fees, and charts.
perhaps it's time we got equally serious about showing people what information they're sharing.
Love the clean UX of @xochi_fi . It's a great way to send money privately!
share your @zk_money tag in this thread and you might receive something nice :)
a Passport score of 20 or more clears Shield's personhood check for the first $1,000 you bridge cumulatively
that, and everything else https://t.co/inwbxYoVD4 shipped in Q3 ↓
The last week made the case for private money better than we could.
Gnosis Pay: names and home addresses leaked, tied to linked wallet addresses. On a public chain, that's your balance too.
Paraguay: Ueno Bank seized, ~3M people locked out of their accounts overnight.
Two failures:
→ someone else holds your data
→ someone else holds your money
https://t.co/8cPwCUFvkv is early. But the vision is simple: become the standard for private, non-custodial money.
Your money, private by default.