Can Private Protocols Keep North Korea Out? Aztec’s Zac Williamson Thinks So

In this episode of Unchained Premium, Zac Williamson, co-founder of Aztec, joined Laura to talk about Tierra, the V6 upgrade to Aztec’s private, fully decentralized layer 2 on Ethereum. The conversation covers the 24/7 AI audit harness that found critical vulnerabilities in Aztec’s cryptographic libraries, and why formally verifying those systems gives Zac more confidence in V6. He describes how private value on Aztec works like Bitcoin’s UTXOs, so a dusted note can’t taint the rest of an account, and how a privacy pools-style design lets users prove their funds have no link to flagged deposits from groups like Lazarus without revealing anything else.

BeCrypto News shows a short excerpt and links to the publisher. The full report belongs to Unchained.