Confidential gold exposure
Bridge supported gold-backed collateral into Aztec and use ZGLD without broadcasting every user action.
Gold-backed value, confidential by default.
Oro lets users bring gold exposure into Aztec as confidential ZGLD and optionally create ORO credit from a collateralized position.
Why Oro
Confidential finance needs useful collateral.
Gold is familiar, liquid, and historically treated as a reserve asset. Oro uses that familiarity as the base for a privacy-preserving credit system.
In crypto, visibility is often risk. Balances, flows, positions, and habits can become signals for attackers or unwanted profiling. Oro uses Aztec so users can act without revealing every detail of their gold exposure or credit activity.
Protocol logic
From gold collateral to confidential credit.
Oro connects supported gold-backed collateral on Ethereum to Aztec, where users can hold confidential ZGLD and optionally mint ORO through collateralized positions.
What Oro enables
A small, understandable protocol path.
Optional credit
Mint ORO only when a ZGLD-backed position remains sufficiently collateralized.
Useful by design
Start with bridge, hold, mint, repay, withdraw, and bridge back before expanding into payments and liquidity.
How it works
Bridge, hold, mint, repay.
Bridge
Bring supported gold-backed collateral into Aztec.
Hold ZGLD
Keep confidential gold-backed value without creating debt.
Mint ORO
Open a position and create ORO when risk checks allow it.
Repay or exit
Reduce debt, recover collateral, or bridge back.
Core assets
ZGLD is the collateral. ORO is the optional debt.
ZGLD
The confidential gold-backed asset used inside Oro.
ORO
A dollar-targeted credit asset minted against ZGLD collateral.
Aztec
The privacy-preserving environment where Oro user activity can stay confidential.
Next phase
Built first, expanded next.
Oro starts with the core credit loop. The next work is to make the surrounding services more decentralized, add liquidity, and turn confidential ORO into a practical payment asset.