Aztec Network have introduced a whistleblower platform named StealthNote
The creators behind the Ethereum layer 2 Aztec Network have introduced a whistleblower platform named StealthNote that enables employees to express their grievances about their employer while remaining anonymous.
StealthNote employs zero-knowledge proofs to validate that contributions on its platform are authored by individuals who possess an email address from the organization they are critiquing.
Saleel Pichen, a developer at Aztec Labs, stated in an April 14 post on X that StealthNote generates a zero-knowledge proof of a Google JSON Web Token, which serves to verify users and enables the platform to demonstrate that a user holds “an email from a company domain without disclosing any personal information.”
As per Aztec’s documentation, this privacy solution has been under development since at least October 22, with the initial test post from Aztec occurring roughly three months prior.
Contributors from the Ethereum Foundation, StarkWare, Scroll, as well as Columbia and Cornell universities have written posts on StealthNote, mainly offering greetings and expressing their support for privacy-focused solutions.
“Let’s make privacy great again,” remarked a staff member from Nim Network.
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He advocated for ZK-proofs as a mechanism to alleviate this compromise, underlining the technology’s capacity to offer “fine-grained control over who can access specific information.”
The privacy-centric Aztec Network debuted on Ethereum in February 2020.
The company secured $100 million in Series B financing led by the tech-oriented venture capital firm Andreessen “a16z” Horowitz in December 2022, with additional contributions from A Capital and King River.
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