Show Notes
In this episode of Milk Road Crypto, John Gillen sits down with Joe Andrews, co-founder and CEO of Aztec Labs, to break down the return of ZK.money, Aztec’s privacy-focused Ethereum Layer 2, and why programmable privacy could become one of the most important pieces of crypto infrastructure. Today, using Ethereum can expose your wallet balance, transaction history, counterparties, and financial activity to anyone. Aztec is betting that zero-knowledge proofs can change that, bringing private payments, private DeFi, identity verification, institutional finance, and eventually AI-powered transactions to Ethereum without giving up decentralization.
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