Morning Edition · Sunday, October 25, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York

Miden pitches a private-finance stack built on selective disclosure, with a self-custodial wallet called Bread

Transactions run and are proved on the user's own device, and auditors can be shown only the data they need, a compliance-first design that contrasts with the restrictions now applied to Monero.

Miden, a zero-knowledge blockchain that started as a project inside Polygon, has announced what it calls the PriFi stack, a set of tools for private digital finance. In Miden's design, users execute transactions on their own devices, and ze…