TechFlow News — Aztec Network, a privacy and scaling solution based on ZK Rollup, announced it will gradually shut down its DeFi privacy bridge project Aztec Connect. Deposits of funds into the Aztec Connect contract from zk.money and other frontends such as zkpay.finance will be disabled one week from now, although users may withdraw their funds for free over the next year. The Aztec team expects to fully decommission the Aztec Connect contract one year from now, at which point all rollup functions will cease; the anticipated date is March 21, 2024. Aztec Network advises users to withdraw their funds as soon as possible.
The Aztec team stated that the entire Aztec Connect protocol has now been fully open-sourced, including extended upgrades and a new security SDK. They encourage the Aztec community to fork, deploy, and run new versions, and are willing to see independently operated instances of Aztec Connect emerge, for which they are prepared to provide funding. The team’s medium- to long-term focus will shift toward the development of the Noir programming language and the next-generation cryptographic blockchain—two products designed to be mutually compatible and interconnected.Original link
