Aztec Network, a privacy and scaling solution based on ZK Rollup, announced the completion of $100 million in financing, led by a16z crypto, with participation from A_Capital, King River Capital, Variant, SV Angel, HashKey, Fenbushi Capital, and Alumni Ventures. In July this year, Aztec announced the launch of Aztec Connect, a decentralized zero-knowledge network with native smart contract privacy. Aztec Connect enables anyone to add privacy to Ethereum applications through two easy-to-use tools, the bridge contract (an interface that connects Ethereum smart contracts to Aztec Rollup) and the SDK (a front-end toolkit) . Aztec said it is developing a new public-private execution layer secured by ethereum, where encrypted and unencrypted applications can seamlessly interact on its own blockchain.