{"id":127268,"date":"2025-04-16T05:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127268"},"modified":"2025-04-16T05:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:16:52","slug":"aztec-launches-stealthnote-app-giving-privacy-to-corporate-whistleblowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127268","title":{"rendered":"Aztec launches StealthNote app giving privacy to corporate whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsDevelopers behind the Ethereum layer 2 Aztec Network have launched a whistleblowing platform called StealthNote that allows workers to vent about their employer without revealing themselves.<br \/>\nStealthNote uses zero-knowledge proofs to prove that posts on its platform are written by someone with access to an email address of the company that they\u2019re reviewing.<br \/>\nAztec Labs developer Saleel Pichen wrote in an April 14 X post that StealthNote creates a zero-knowledge proof of a Google JSON Web Token, which is used to authenticate users and allows the platform to prove a poster owns \u201can email from a company domain without revealing any personal info.\u201d<br \/>\nTwo of the latest posts on StealthNote from personnel at Aztec Labs and Cornell University. Source: StealthNote.xyzAccording to Aztec\u2019s documentation, the privacy solution had been in development since at least Oct. 22, while the first test post from Aztec occurred about three months ago.<br \/>\nWorkers from Ethereum Foundation, StarkWare and Scroll as well as Columbia and Cornell universities have made posts on StealthNote, primarily sharing greetings and voicing their support for privacy solutions.<br \/>\n\u201cLet\u2019s make privacy cool again,\u201d a worker from Nim Network wrote.<br \/>\nZK-proofs needed more than ever, says Buterin<br \/>\nZK-proofs have become an increasingly used privacy solution in the internet age as concerns over data security and government surveillance continue to grow.<br \/>\nThe concerns were raised in an April 14 blog post by Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin, who criticized the assumption that governments are generally well-intentioned when it comes to sacrificing privacy for a more \u201ctransparent society.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nRelated: Vitalik Buterin unveils roadmap for Ethereum privacy<br \/>\nHe championed ZK-proofs as a solution to mitigate this trade-off, highlighting the technology\u2019s ability to provide \u201cfine-grained control of who can see what information.\u201d<br \/>\nRelated: Vitalik Buterin unveils roadmap for Ethereum privacyThe privacy-focused Aztec Network launched on Ethereum in February 2020.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe firm raised $100 million in Series B funding led by the tech-focused venture capital firm Andreessen \u201ca16z\u201d Horowitz in December 2022, with A Capital and King River also contributing.<br \/>\nMagazine: Financial nihilism in crypto is over \u2014 It\u2019s time to dream big again<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/aztec-stealthnote-privacy-corporate-whistleblowers?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsDevelopers behind the Ethereum layer 2 Aztec Network have launched a whistleblowing platform called StealthNote that allows workers to vent about their employer without revealing themselves. StealthNote uses&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}