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According to Shield's monitoring, the wallet address marked as the attacker of the Aztec Network Private Rollup Bridge has deposited 300 ETH into Tornado Cash again, worth approximately $572,000. So far, the attacker has transferred a total of 500 ETH to Tornado Cash.Previously, Aztec Network suffered a security attack in June 2026, resulting in a loss of approximately $2.165 million in crypto assets. This transfer of funds may further complicate the tracking of the stolen assets.

According to The Block, the Ethereum privacy infrastructure project Aztec has announced the launch of the complete v5 Execution Layer Alpha version, bringing multiple cryptographic optimizations aimed at achieving client-side ZK Proving with second-level generation on mobile phones and consumer-grade laptops.Aztec stated that the v5 Execution Layer reduces the computational burden required for local proof generation by optimizing the zero-knowledge proof generation process, allowing users to complete privacy transaction proofs without relying on large servers. This improvement is expected to further promote the widespread application of zero-knowledge technology.

Vitalik posted on the X platform stating that he has developed a toy demonstration version of the idea of a "censored anonymous bulletin board" on Aztec. This idea comes from his previous article on using SNARKs, and it is still in the early stages, but it can already achieve interesting and non-trivial functionalities.

Aztec Labs stated that it is investigating a suspected exploitation incident involving its Aztec Payments product, which was launched in 2021 and is now discontinued. Approximately 2 million dollars have been transferred from the related immutable smart contracts.

According to SlowMist's YuXian monitoring, Aztec is suspected to have been hacked again, with its Private Rollup Bridge 0x737...A2ba showing three suspicious transactions, totaling approximately $2.15 million, involving 1,158 ETH, 150,000 DAI, and 0.46963295 renBTC.

Regarding the suspected attack on the Aztec Router contract on the Ethereum chain, Aztec Labs has officially launched an investigation and clarified that Aztec Connect was deprecated three years ago. Aztec Labs does not hold any administrator keys or control over the system, and currently cannot pause or upgrade it. Therefore, the community is reminded to be vigilant against false "support" accounts and private messages.

According to analysis by BlockSec Phalcon (@Phalcon_xyz), the RollupProcessorV3 contract of Aztec Network was attacked, resulting in losses exceeding $2.15 million. The root cause was that numRealTxs was not effectively bound to the transaction set enforced by the ZK proof, leading to discrepancies in the proof verification path and the L1 settlement logic's interpretation of the transaction list.The attacker exploited this vulnerability to move real deposits to slots not processed by the settlement logic, bypassing the decreasePendingDepositBalance() function, creating unsecured private balances out of thin air, and then withdrawing through the normal settlement process, involving a total of seven assets.

The Aztec Foundation stated on platform X that it has been informed of a potential vulnerability attack that occurred earlier with Aztec Connect. This product is not associated with the smart contracts related to the AZTEC ERC20 token and the current Aztec network. Aztec Connect was deprecated three years ago, and Aztec Labs no longer retains any control over the system, making it unable to pause or upgrade it. According to previous reports, the Aztec Router contract is suspected to have been attacked, with approximately $2.19 million in assets being transferred out.

According to security agency CertiK's monitoring, a suspicious transaction was transferred from the Aztec Router contract on Ethereum, involving approximately 2.19 million dollars in assets.The transaction exhibited unusual outflow characteristics, and CertiK reminds the community to remain vigilant.

According to The Block, Aztec Labs has acquired Obsidion, the company behind the open-source privacy identity verification tool ZKPassport. Its co-founders Michael Elliot and Theo Madzou, along with their team, will join Aztec Labs to continue developing ZKPassport and related applications.Aztec Labs is building the Ethereum privacy layer two network Aztec Network, which raised approximately $60 million worth of ETH through the AZTEC token sale last year, and previously secured about $125 million in venture capital.ZKPassport allows users to read passports or government documents via mobile NFC, generating cryptographic signatures locally for verifying age, nationality, and "real identity" without exposing full privacy. It has been used for ticketing at the Devconnect conference and for compliance identity verification in the Aztec community token sale. Aztec stated that it will continue to keep the ZKPassport protocol and iOS application open source.

Nine hours ago, the last 5,020 ETH ($12.33 million) was transferred to Coinbase. The ETH raised by the Ethereum privacy L2 Aztec project last year has now been fully liquidated.Last December, the project auctioned off 15% of AZTEC (1.5 billion tokens) and received 19,388.4 ETH ($5.913 million), with an AZTEC fundraising price of $0.0473 (which has now dropped by 50%). In February of this year, during their TGE, they took 4,234.6 ETH ($1.291 million) from the auction funds to provide liquidity. The remaining 15,154 ETH ($37 million) has been gradually transferred to Coinbase over the past three months, with the final transfer of 5,020 ETH occurring early this morning.

The privacy chain Aztec Network, supported by a16z, officially launched Alpha Network, becoming the first Ethereum Layer 2 with a complete private smart contract execution environment, which was previously approved by a unanimous community governance vote.Aztec integrates privacy at three levels: private data supports confidential transactions and RWA transfers; private identity allows for selective disclosure to meet compliance requirements; private computation hides on-chain behavior, opening up space for privacy DeFi and gaming applications. Contracts are written in the Rust-style language Noir, with privacy logic executed on the user side to generate zero-knowledge proofs, settling on Ethereum approximately every 12 seconds.However, this launch comes with a significant warning, as Aztec disclosed known serious security vulnerabilities, with auditing still ongoing. The team advises users to only deposit funds they can afford to lose.

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According to the official announcement, UPBIT will start trading support for Aztec (AZTEC) on February 20, 2025, at 16:30, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT markets.Users can begin depositing within 2 hours after the announcement is made, and deposits must be made through the Aztec-Ethereum network.

According to the official announcement from Coinbase Markets, spot trading for Aztec (AZTEC) and Espresso (ESP) will go live on February 12, 2026. If liquidity conditions are met, the AZTEC-USD and ESP-USD trading pairs will open later today in supported regions.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the U-based AZTEC perpetual contract, with a leverage range of 1-20 times. The contract trading BOT will be opened simultaneously.

According to official news, MEXC Innovation Zone has launched Aztec (AZTEC) on February 12, 2026, at 15:00 (UTC+8) and opened the AZTEC/USDT and AZTEC/USDC trading markets.On the same day, the AZTEC U-based contract was launched, supporting 1-20x leverage. In addition, this cryptocurrency will also be available on MEXC's instant exchange feature, allowing for seamless and instant exchanges with other assets.

Coinbase International and Coinbase Advanced have launched the full trading mode for the AZTEC-PERP perpetual contract market, supporting order types such as limit, market, stop, and stop-limit orders.

OKX will officially convert the AZTEC/USDT pre-trading contract to a standard perpetual contract on February 12, 2026, from 16:00 to 19:00. The contract underlying is AZTEC/USDT, with a leverage range of 0.01 to 20 times, and trading hours are 7×24. For specific contract rules, please refer to the platform announcement.