Zac Williamson on Huff, Aztec, Noir, and Building with ZK Tech


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May 05 2023 60 mins   9

This week's guest is Zac Williamson, founder & CEO at Aztec.

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Aztec: https://twitter.com/aztecnetwork
Noir Docs: https://noir-lang.org/
Zac on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Zac_Aztec

00:00 Intro

3:45 How Zac got into Web3

6:45 The creation of Aztec

14:30 why did he build huff?

19:05 Weirstrudel & Optimizations in Huff

21:33 Inspirations for Huff Language designs

23:15 Why did Huff take off?

27:27 The future of the Huff community?

31:08 Mental models needed for devs that want to build privacy preserving apps

37:05 Hello world in Noir

38:50 Private functions and private contracts on Aztec

46:22 The Aztec sequencer

50:15 Noir & smart contract security

51255 What should people build on Noir?

56:52 Advice for early career devs