Aztec Network: Not contacted by regulators, closing Connect is a commercial consideration

According to an interview by Pan Zhixiong, the founder of ChainFeeds, Aztec Network, a privacy and expansion solution based on ZK Rollup, stated that it has not been contacted by regulators. Closing Connect is a commercial consideration; the maintenance cost of Aztec Connect is not low; the team is focusing on the next generation of default Noir, a privacy programmable smart contract protocol (Using the Bitcoin-style UTXO model, will abstract zero-knowledge proof and cryptography, and application developers can develop Noir smart contracts without knowing cryptography); still focus on Layer2 , instead of Layer1. Foresight News reported yesterday that Aztec Network announced the closure of the privacy infrastructure Aztec Connect. At 22:00 on March 21, deposits to the Aztec Connect contract from zk.money and other front-ends (such as zkpay.finance) will be disabled, and users will continue to be able to Free withdrawals throughout the year.