**[Aztec Network Launches Ignition Chain on Ethereum Mainnet]** According to Golden Finance, privacy-focused Ethereum Layer 2 network Aztec Network officially launched its Ignition Chain on the Ethereum mainnet on Wednesday, following the initiation of its AZTEC token sale last week. "Aztec has just released Ignition Chain, the first fully decentralized L2 on Ethereum," the team announced on X on Wednesday. "This marks the official launch of the decentralized consensus layer powering Aztec Network." Ignition Chain supports programmable privacy, and its mainnet launch follows the public testnet released in May of this year. The team stated that the validator queue for Ignition Chain reached 500 on Wednesday, triggering block production on the Ethereum mainnet. Ignition Chain is central to Aztec's vision of creating a "private world computer," enabling developers to build DeFi applications with end-to-end privacy. The network aims to address Ethereum's transparency limitations using zero-knowledge proofs while maintaining verifiability. In 2022, the Aztec team raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by a16z.