TLDR: Aztec has partnered with Ren to bring private Bitcoin to Ethereum We are incredibly excited to partner with Ren to add renBTC into the Aztec private rollup. The Aztec private rollup — accessible through zk.money — enables fully private transactions on Ethereum. Integrating renBTC enables users to privately send…

With a new hiring wave for us at Aztec, we’ll be publishing some short, fun interviews with our newest additions to the team. Our latest hire is Cody Gunton, who recently joined us as a Cryptography Engineer working full-time. Welcome to the team, Cody 🎉 Cody, please introduce yourself …

Two months ago Aztec launched zk.money, which allows users to send and receive funds privately on Ethereum, in a Venmo-like fashion. We’re now excited to share that we are actively working on bringing our private, scalable experience of Ethereum to DeFi apps. Our Private Rollup will both make transactions private…

In my previous post, I touched on the general thesis for investing in a SPAC, and what criteria questions an investor should ask before choosing a SPAC to allocate capital. I recommend reading it before diving into this one, as it includes technical details and nuances, which will be easier…

So far, almost $60 billion has flown into about 160 SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) in 2020. All of those are looking or had looked for other companies to take public via a merger/acquisition. It means that 160 viable companies will also have to exit, for these SPACs to succeed…

Intro — As more consumer-enterprise products are coming to the market, it’s getting more challenging for users to find the time to get hooked on the good products. People(including me) are signing up for products before they are ready to try them out. In other cases, they sign-up to more new products…

The past decade had been the most significant to tech venture capitalists’ portfolios. The result is driven by extreme growth and user adoption of internet monopolies’ products following an extreme version of the 80/20 principle for value creation. While some of the investment opportunities in these ‘high-growth’(as Elad Gil puts…

As part of my interest to understand Blockchains, I look at sophisticated terms and try to simplify them — so I could understand their role better, and help others to do so via writing. This time, I took the subject of Phragmen’s method in NPoS and will try to explain…

It’s been two years since I started working remotely, after getting introduced to the idea thanks to the 4HWW. I’ve worked at a startup, and now as self-employed. I’ve enjoyed the nomad’s life, working from Israel, the US, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Czech Republic, Italy, and more. I collaborated…