Aztec AZTEC Price
AZTEC price — last 91 days
AZTEC market data
- Market cap
- $53.61M
- Fully diluted
- $185.26M
- 24h perp volume
- $420.40K
- Open interest
- $1.72M
- 24h high
- $0.01796
- 24h low
- $0.01606
- Funding (1h)
- 0.0013%
- 11.0% annualized
- Max leverage
- 3x
Supply & price history
- Circulating supply
- 3.00B
- Total supply
- 10.35B
- Max supply
- 10.35B
- Launched
- —
- All-time high
- $0.0399
- Feb 20, 2026 · -55.1%
- All-time low
- $0.01131
- Aug 18, 2026
What is Aztec?
Aztec is the leading privacy-first Layer 2 on Ethereum, empowering developers to build applications that protect user privacy. Backed by a $100M Series B led by a16z, Aztec is led by a team of world-class cryptographers who invented the standard for trustless client-side proving—making privacy-preserving apps possible.
In a landscape where speed and novelty rarely translate into durable moats, Aztec’s sustained traction, deep institutional adoption, and growing ecosystem around privacy-preserving cryptography validate that its work has broken through the “flock,” proving privacy isn’t a feature race but a foundational technology trusted to underpin real, long-term financial infrastructure.
1. Pioneers of Privacy in Web3 Aztec's team developed PLONK in 2019, a SNARK-based proving system that is computationally inexpensive and only requires one universal trusted setup. PLONK was a big breakthrough, not just for Aztec, but for the wider blockchain community. Today, PLONK has been implemented and extended by teams like zkSync, Polygon, Mina, and more. There is even an entire category of proving systems called PLONKish that all derive from the original 2019 paper. The foundational cryptography behind modern privacy infrastructure was built by the Aztec team.
2. Noir: The Universal ZK Programming Language The Aztec Labs team developed Noir, a Rust-like programming language for writing zero-knowledge circuits that make privacy technology accessible to mainstream developers. With 500+ GitHub projects and recognition as Electric Capital’s top 5 fastest-growing developer ecosystems, Noir is becoming the standard for zk development and is used today by projects across Solana, Stellar, Starkware, and World.
3. Drawing Institutional Attention Across Tradfi, Stablecoins, and Real-World Assets JP Morgan was an early institutional tester of Aztec’s technology, with its Quorum blockchain team actively evaluating and experimenting with Aztec as part of its effort to industrialize privacy-preserving cryptography for regulated financial use cases back in 2019.
The Taurus confidential token standard was built on Aztec’s technology and adopted by a leading institutional infrastructure provider. This proves that Aztec is not just a research project, but a credible, production-ready platform and a foundational player in the privacy-preserving financial infrastructure stack.
- Smart Contract Platform
- Ethereum Ecosystem
- Layer 2 (L2)
- Hyperliquid Ecosystem
- Privacy Blockchain
- HyperEVM Ecosystem
- CoinList Launchpad
Aztec links
Aztec FAQ
What is the price of Aztec today?
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Aztec (AZTEC) is trading at $0.01794, up 9.51% over the last 24 hours, with $420.40K of perpetual volume.
What is the market cap of Aztec?
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Aztec has a market capitalization of $53.61M, ranking #418 among cryptocurrencies. Its circulating supply is 3.00B AZTEC out of a maximum 10.35B.
What is the all-time high of Aztec?
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Aztec reached its all-time high of $0.0399 on Feb 20, 2026. It is currently -55.1% from that level.
What is the AZTEC funding rate?
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The current AZTEC perpetual funding rate is 0.0013% per hour. A positive rate means longs pay shorts; a negative rate means shorts pay longs.
How do I trade Aztec on ChipaX?
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Open the AZTEC-PERP market on ChipaX, choose long or short, and set leverage up to 3x. You can also practise risk-free in demo trading mode before using real funds.
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