CEO @aztecnetwork. Building a privacy-first L2 on Ethereum. Cryptographer, software engineer, ex-particle physicist. Plonk co-author. Huff inventor.

welcome to @zac-aztec, founder of Aztec and inventor (discoverer? founder?) of the famous PLONK proof system!


COO @ Pluto |||

Writing stuff occasionally at mirror.xyz/brunny.eth |||

Previously Head of Ecosystem at Aztec Labs

Hey @zac-aztec how does it feel to use inferior British spelling?

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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/eulerlagrange

It feels… cultural. You wouldn’t understand.

Just joking. I love the noir DSL. I implemented chacha20 pretty quickly: https://github.com/Hmac512/noir-chacha 😏

Btw, for macOS Nargo installs an x86 binary for barretenberg. So it ends up using Rosetta, and so it’s slower without any indication.

I compiled it myself to get around it. But you guys should fix.

You’ve sent out a eddsa signature of this, so I will hold you to it.

Am excited to mess around with the barretenburg system :)

You didn’t tell me you built chacha20 in Noir earlier today.

…I will consider signing your bare chest.