Building a zero-knowledge rollup for client-side proving requires quite a bit of extra work: Our feature set required a radical new approach for capturing the network’s state
Dominik Schmid
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Dominik Schmid
@schmiddominik1
Joined July 2016
- Building a zero-knowledge rollup for client-side proving requires quite a bit of extra work. We needed to come up with our own data structure: the tiered sparse Merkle tree a 🧵
- Building a zero-knowledge rollup for client-side proving requires quite a bit of extra work: To have both parallel transaction execution and privacy, we need Notes and Nullifiers and a way of storing them that is privacy-preserving
- Building a zero-knowledge rollup for client-side proving requires quite a bit of extra work: We want certain notes only to be consumed (even locally) by the specified target
- This moment is the culmination of 8 years in crypto. x.com/0xMiden/status… A short story about what brought me here 👇Introducing Miden, the Edge Blockchain. Today, we announce our $25 million seed fundraise and spinout from @0xPolygon.
00:00 - I will give a talk on Wednesday on Polygon MidenWe're excited to welcome you back at @fullnode_berlin this Wednesday, April 26th, at 7 PM to enjoy talks by @schmiddominik1 on Polygon Miden and @_franzihei on the 2022 Solidity Developer Survey ✨ meetup.com/de-DE/berlin-e…
- There it is, our first transaction. Client-side provenI am a big fan of Ethereum. I am writing a blog post right now explaining why this is the case. The main reason is not the tech but it's culture and philosophy. Ethereum community is open enough to incoporate good ideas that were inveted somewhere else. That is why I do believe
00:00 - Miden road to mainnet: docs.polygon.technology/miden/miden-ba… We get great help from external teams: - @class_lambda - client and all over the place - @reilabs_io - mostly on crypto and GPU - @DemoxLabs - WebClient and TS SDK - @defined_innov - AirScript and recursion - @0xs34n - explorer
- Together with @bobbinth I will give a talk tomorrow about the Miden Transaction Kernel. The kernel is a real-world zk program.Join us on tuesday for the 3rd session of ZK Hack IV In it we announce the winners of Puzzle F2, our workshop partner @0xPolygonLabs presents Provable State Changes: The Miden Transaction Kernel At the end we kick off Puzzle F3. See you there! events.ringcentral.com/events/zkhacki…
- Was a pleasure to be invited on stage to share our approach. Thank you so much, great eventWe now have @schmiddominik1, Co-founder of @0xMiden, on our @eth_proofs Summit stage explaining how Miden combines the actor model with ZK to enable scalable, private execution 🤝
- Client-side proofs just make so much more sense for transactions that don’t need public state. You get privacy and scalability.Evolution of transaction execution models in blockchain
- We did it; now you can try it. Client-side proving is the next big thing, I believe. We will add more and more features soon.babe, wake up, it’s here: the Polygon Miden Alpha Testnet is live—a zk self-sovereign focused chain ready for pioneers who want to cook. join the 👉🏽 brand new 👈🏽 alpha telegram to start the Miden journey rn: t.me/midenalpha soo what can you do on this testnet anyway? 👀
- Did my first Sepolia to Miden bridge tx ... 5 USDC ... thanks @0xMaxSoul
- This is how it started :)Exactly 3 years (and 1 week 😅) ago @bobbinth shared the first public sketch of Miden — not yet a protocol, but a transaction model to guide the design of the VM. Back then: a general outline of accounts, notes, and local proving. Now: the first edge blockchain 😎
