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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 20, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York
Miden Pitches Private Blockchain Finance With Recovery and Compliance Controls Built In
The Guardian layer combines on-chain privacy with account recovery, multisignature security and configurable disclosure, an attempt to sell confidentiality to institutions without handing them a custodian.
Miden, the zero-knowledge network built around proving transactions on the user's own device rather than on a shared sequencer, published two arguments this week. The first states plainly that most blockchains today are not private, and tha…
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Over 3-6 months, confidential execution reframes as a prerequisite for serious/institutional on-chain use, with privacy L2s shipping live networks and contesting who controls confidentiality.
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