The Aleo mainnet is set to launch in the next few weeks, once some final bugs have been squashed, in a bid to bring privacy to crypto transactions.

"We just finished the third phase of testnet three and have a list of bugs that we discovered through that process. We got the list of bugs from six audits that we've done and two bug bounty programs," said Aleo Foundation Executive Director Alex Pruden.

Pruden emphasized the struggle in getting to this point over the last four years, particularly re-engineering the network's consensus algorithm after the second testnet because it wasn't working. "But the good news is we're at the very end of that journey and we're getting ready to launch imminently," he said.

Aleo's origins begin with an academic paper in 2018 written by several of the …