# Miden Puts Recovery and Compliance Controls Under Private Accounts as Privacy Chains Court Institutions

Guardian, designed with Miden and built by OpenZeppelin, coordinates private multi-signature approval, backup and account recovery without a custodian, with mainnet expected in the third quarter.

- Published: 2026-08-15T05:40:49.580Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-15/miden-puts-recovery-and-compliance-controls-under-private-ac
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Miden](https://miden.xyz/blog/what-is-miden-guardian), [Miden](https://miden.xyz/blog/practical-privacy), [OpenZeppelin](https://www.openzeppelin.com/news/private-state-management-on-miden)

Miden, a zero-knowledge rollup that keeps account state on the user's own device rather than in a public ledger, has described Guardian as the layer that makes that model workable in practice. It combines on-chain privacy with account recov…

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