# Miden Launches a Private Self-Custody Wallet as World Offers Human-Verification Proofs to Banks

The two launches set confidential payments against identity attestation as competing products that both use zero-knowledge proofs.

- Published: 2026-10-20T05:39:30.204Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-10-20/miden-launches-a-private-self-custody-wallet-as-world-offers
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Miden (blog)](https://miden.xyz/blog/bread-is-privacy-baked-in), [Miden (PriFi stack)](https://miden.xyz/prifi-stack), [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news)

Miden, a zero-knowledge network, has released Bread, a self-custodial wallet for private payments. Miden says the wallet draws on seven years of privacy engineering. Users can send, receive and swap now, with earning and cross-chain feature…

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