Introducing @0xMiden — What sets it apart from other privacy projects: ▫️ Programmable Practical Privacy ▫️ Quantum-resistant tech, future proof ▫️ Ultra scalability With real-world use cases: Onchain payroll, private multisig, prediction markets & stablecoins, and many more...

Private intents, public settlement. That's the @0xEpochProtocol x @0xMiden setup. Epoch is a solver coordination layer. Funds lock in escrow on the source chain, solvers front their own liquidity on the destination chain, and once the settlement proof clears, escrow releases and the solver gets paid. The Miden piece: Epoch runs two accounts, one private and one public. You deposit into the private account, where Miden hides balance, sender, and origin by default (the network only stores cryptographic commitments). Epoch then moves the funds to the public account with a ZK proof and broadcasts the intent to solvers. The trade is visible to whoever fills it. Your position and history stay hidden. Where it fits: - Trading desks enter and exit without leaking size or strategy - Payroll ships as one intent, individual salaries stay private - Compliance gets selective disclosure, not the all-or-nothing of a mixer Backing: $1.2M in Sept 2025 from L2IV, Alphemy, Safe, G20, Longhash and Hadron, plus angels Anurag Arjun (Avail) and Adrian Brink (Anoma). The payroll case is the sleeper. Proving one aggregate number to an auditor without exposing every line is the thing mixers were never able to do.

On the talk of privacy, Ethereum keeps showing where it stands. With the introduction of the ETH System, the EF's Institutional Privacy Task Force has spun out into an independent company built for banks. The problem nowadays is that Ethereum is a public ledger. Balances, positions, and counterparties are visible to anyone. Regulated institutions legally cannot expose that data, so they stay away. So EthSystems sells the fix directly: - Workshops that turn privacy into a hard requirement - Proofs of concept: private payments, tokenized assets, selective disclosure, private settlement - Architecture reviews stress-tested against Ethereum-native constraints - Production systems integrated with existing vendors The EthSystem team is credible: - Mo Jalil (CEO, ex-Goldman) - Oskar Thorén - Aaryamann Challani They all spent the past year inside the EF talking to central banks, regulators, tier-one banks, and asset managers to understand the needs and demands for institutional privacy. With backing from BitMine, SharpLink, Joe Lubin, and SNZ, it shows that these figures believe in the vision and where the future is headed. The privacy future is bright, and Miden is at the forefront of it all.

We think we're approaching the "all at once" stage. Quietly in the recent cycle, crypto has been maturing into something that not alot of people noticing: infrastructure. The banking side is what makes this self-reinforcing. Once banks have to compete with staking yields, they can't sit still. If one major player adopts, the rest have no real choice but to follow. And yield is only part of the pitch. Faster settlement, stronger security, lower costs, higher efficiency. Hard to argue against once regulation stops being the blocker. That blocker is fading. CFTC and SEC guidance is turning constructive, banks are starting to move, and the major liquidity pools are beginning to connect: retail capital, bank deposits, pension money, institutional flows. New banks like Erebor are being built specifically to consolidate crypto and banking into one ecosystem. So while everyone watches the highway waiting for the flashy cars to return (tokens, NFTs, speculation), the real money is in owning the highway and collecting from the boring traffic running on it every day: stablecoins, RWAs, tokenization. This is the settlement layer of the next financial age, and the U.S. government clearly wants America leading it as it scales globally. The other half of this is the user side. The endgame is crypto you don't see. For years crypto felt like its own separate world. The setup was too complex, the UX too rough, and the average user had to understand too much. AI changes that. People will simply ask for what they need: payments, automations, identity checks, escrow, settlement, data access, ownership transfers, agent-to-agent transactions. Under the hood, crypto rails get chosen because they're cheaper and more efficient than legacy finance. Anything that needs to transact, verify, settle, or coordinate value can run on open infrastructure. The user won't think "I'm using crypto." They'll think "this just works." That's the real new bull market. Crypto stops being a product people have to understand and becomes invisible rails that let users and AI agents build, coordinate, and move value at a fraction of today's cost. The tell today won't be price action. Watch stablecoin settlement volume and bank pilots. Boring numbers, but that's where "all at once" shows up first.

🔥 Privacy sectors is leading the Crypto market in the last 12 months 🏆 Privacy: +127.3% ▫️ Exchange tokens: -11.6% ▫️ Ethereum: -30.5% ▫️Bitcoin: -41.8% ▫️AI: -51.9% ▫️RWA: -62.1% ▫️Memecoins: -64.9% ▫️Perp DEXs: -75.3% ▫️DePIN: -77.6% ▫️Data Availability: -77.9%

🔥 Eli Ben-Sasson - @EliBenSasson shared his insight after 12 years of privacy grind, in the latest @0xMiden Privacy Podcast: ▫️ His word for the Zcash years: brutal. Weak token, thin funding, a market that didn't care. Then privacy became one of the best trades of the year and ZEC turned into the schelling point for the whole narrative. ▫️ StarkWare runs payroll on Starknet, and anyone with a block explorer can estimate salaries. His CFO splits payments to hide the numbers. So the first privacy product they ship will be their own payroll. ▫️ Old shielding never scaled. Proofs ran on your own phone, transfers only, and touching DeFi meant unshielding everything first. ▫️ The new answer is operators. They build the proofs and bundle shielded transactions, so all you see is a shielded swap. The trade: operators see your activity. He owns that choice openly. ▫️ Stark BTC is live. Shielded Bitcoin you can stake and earn yield on. Stark20 comes next, one click to shield any ERC20 on Starknet. ▫️ On institutions: an ETF is exposure to the asset, not adoption of the tech. Privacy turns mandatory the day companies run payroll and treasury onchain. ▫️ Crypto still has no product market fit in his view. Everyone's mom uses AI. Nobody's mom uses crypto. Add anticipation plus investable tokens and you get a market trading years ahead of reality. 👁️ 5 year picture: ZK ends up like SSL. A padlock nobody looks at, quietly securing every transaction underneath. Exactly what payroll and treasury onchain will run on. He also gave @0xMiden team a lot of respect for the progress on privacy!

What happened in privacy crypto last week: ▫️ @Zcash Orchard crisis & recovery A 4-year-old counterfeiting flaw in the Orchard shielded pool was found on May 29 using Claude Opus 4.8. The follow-up Mythos AI audit found no new serious bugs. ▫️ @monero got audited next The same researcher reviewed Monero, with no known bug found as of June 18. ▫️ Institutional stablecoins need privacy @0xMiden hosted a stablecoin privacy panel with Paxos, JPMorgan and Consensys. The takeaway: speed and cost are mostly solved. Confidentiality is now the roadblock for institutional volume. ▫️ TRM Labs crime report No-KYC service inflows are up 200%, while traditional mixer volume is down 37% YTD. Demand is not disappearing. It is migrating to new privacy tools. ▫️ Privacy sector resilience Privacy market cap stayed around $41.7B despite 60+ project delistings. ▫️ Google quantum update Google cut the estimated qubits needed to break Ethereum by 20x, putting post-quantum security back in focus. ▫️ DCG x Harris Poll 84% of U.S. voters surveyed believe individuals, not companies, should own their personal data. 55% are more likely to use services that do not exploit their data. ▫️ Tornado Cash governance attack The attacker withdrew around 664 ETH and sold the stolen funds for roughly $1.6M. ▫️ Kraken x Canton Kraken enabled USDCx deposits and withdrawals on Canton, bringing USDC access to a privacy-focused institutional chain built for selective disclosure, sub-transaction privacy and atomic settlement. The privacy narrative is no longer just about mixers. It is becoming about institutional settlement, stablecoin confidentiality, personal data ownership and post-quantum security.

Banking Without Borders starts with fixing the rails behind it. Freelancers & cross-border workers today face real payment difficulties: ▫️ Days to settle ▫️ 8–12% lost to fees, FX spreads, and legacy rails ▫️ Limited access to dollar balances ▫️ Fragmented regional banking coverage @Sempoxyz is here to fix that: One regional account to receive payments, hold stable dollar balances, send money instantly, and convert locally when needed. But behind that, @0xMiden is bringing its flagship invisible infrastructure layer: ▫️ Private balances ▫️ Private transaction histories ▫️ Private payment flows ▫️ Private stablecoin payments For Sempo, that means faster payments, lower-cost rails, private user accounts, and compliance-ready financial flows. Neobanks don’t need just a better frontend. They need programmable privacy infrastructure, the exact thing Miden brings.

OpenZeppelin Is Miden’s First Guardian Operator 🛡️ The team that helped build Guardian is now the first to run it. ▫️ @OpenZeppelin — Industry standard for onchain security ▫️ Specializes in smart contracts, ZK systems, dev tooling, and privacy infrastructure ▫️ Co-created Guardian alongside the @0xMiden team ▫️ Manages the Guardian implementation ▫️ Now operating as Miden’s first Guardian Operator Guardian makes private accounts usable in real products — from payroll and remittance to business accounts. With OpenZeppelin bringing its security standards into Miden’s private account layer, this is a strong step toward making private finance infrastructure production-ready.

Building Before the Crowd Arrives Most infrastructure firms wait for production readiness before getting involved, not with @0xMiden! Introducing @class_lambda: The 100+ engineer cryptography firm has joined Miden as a Guardian Operator, helping run critical services that power private accounts, including backup, recovery, synchronization, and multi-signer coordination. Why it matters: ▫️ Deep expertise in cryptography & distributed systems ▫️ Operating core infrastructure before mainnet scale ▫️ Helping stress-test and harden Miden's private account model ▫️ Laying foundations for real-world private finance applications

What's Behind a Private @0xMiden Transaction? 👀 Here's the flow: 1️⃣ Propose — A signer creates a transaction locally and sends a proposal to the Guardian Server 2️⃣ Validate — Guardian checks the proposal against the latest account state and Miden Network commitments 3️⃣ Sign — Other authorized signers fetch the proposal, verify details locally, and submit their signatures 4️⃣ Ready — Once the signature threshold is reached (e.g. 2-of-3), Guardian emits an acknowledgment 5️⃣ Execute — A signer generates the final transaction, attaches the Guardian acknowledgment + signatures, and submits a ZK proof to Miden 6️⃣ Confirm — The network commits the new state and notifies Guardian 7️⃣ Sync — All participants fetch the latest canonical state and remain perfectly synchronized A private multisig transaction on @0xMiden is about coordinating multiple parties without exposing account state.