AZTEC Token to Launch Feb. 12 as Ethereum Privacy L2 After Raising $61M Onchain

AZTEC is set to launch on Feb. 12 at 7:00 UTC as Ethereum's first decentralized privacy layer-2 network, with the @aztecnetwork team having raised $61M onchain from 16,741 participants, the project announced. The token sale involved no bots or backroom deals and is backed by a16z, Paradigm and Vitalik. The project also referenced Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit and KuCoin in its overview.