Morning Edition · Sunday, July 12, 2026Published at 1:29 AM EDT · New York
Miden Pitches Selective Disclosure, Reviving the Fight Over Who Holds Privacy's Off Switch
The design lets users prove compliance facts without exposing full histories, while builders argue over whether anyone should be able to disable confidentiality by default.

Miden, a zero-knowledge network created from work at Polygon, is promoting a feature it calls Guardian, which aims to make privacy usable for regulated actors by letting a user prove specific facts, such as that a counterparty is not sancti…
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