Aztec is a privacy project in the Ethereum ecosystem that has been building for 7 years, and I’ve had quite a bit of interaction with it: - 3 years ago, when they were still working on http://zk.money, I had already interacted with it. - The founder wrote a smart contract language called Huff in the early days, and I even wrote a tutorial for it. Unfortunately, it’s now deprecated. - Over the past few years, they’ve developed the zk general-purpose programming language Noir, which has been adopted by many zk projects. I also studied it for a while. Now, Aztec’s mainnet is live, and they’re preparing for the TGE. But unfortunately, there’s no airdrop, only a public sale: the rewards for nodes, early contributors, and community members are just whitelist spots for the public sale. If you want tokens, you’ll have to buy them yourself I got a whitelist spot as a contributor, and honestly, my feelings are a bit mixed. Public sale details: - Total public sale allocation: 14.95% of tokens - TGE: 100% unlocked - 300k whitelist = early birds can participate before 12/2 - 12/2–12/6: official public sale, open to everyone for registration This public sale uses a very unique auction model, the new CCA (Continuous Clearing Auction) model launched by Uniswap × Aztec. The auction is based on Uniswap v4, with a floor price corresponding to a $2.9 billion FDV (minimum fundraising of $40M). A portion is auctioned off every block, with prices adjusting based on supply and demand, ensuring it won’t sell out all at once. Whether to participate or not, everyone DYOR.