Polygon Miden co-founder Bobbin Threadbare is confident about its flexible transaction modes and its design to build a decentralized scalable rollup.
The Polygon Miden protocol actors can prove correctness without the need to be transparent thus opening up new use cases.

The Polygon (MATIC) network has grown to be one of the most vital growth components for the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem. Most of the Ethereum-based decentralized applications (Dapps) have already tapped into the Polygon network to ensure safe scalability.

As a result, the Polygon team has been working on improving its infrastructure amid increased competition in the layer two scaling solution. The launch of the Arbitrum (ARB) L2 network significantly changed the dynamics of the layer two scaling solution as it currently has a higher total value locked (TVL) than Polygon despite the latter being older.

Polygon Miden Promises More Secure Web3 Adoption

The Polygon team has been working on launching the public Testnet for the Polygon Miden during the fourth quarter of 2023. The Polygon Miden is meant to help Web3 developers build high-throughput and private applications through the use of zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. Furthermore, the Polygon network aims to help Ethereum Dapps scale securely.

Notably, the Polygon Miden protocol has a bigger picture of providing strong privacy rather than pseudonymity in the Ethereum ecosystem. Moreover, Polygon Miden uses client-side proofs and off-chain data storage, thus enabling users to store their data locally and prove their state transitions. Ultimately, the load on the network significantly reduces as more indivisibles prove their state of transition.

ZK proofs have both scaling & privacy applications. In the case of Polygon Miden, it’s both.

With Polygon Miden, client-side proving allows users to stay private. And as more users prove their own state transitions, the more the network’s load is reduced.… pic.twitter.com/SHd7uD0MCK

— Polygon Developers (@0xPolygonDevs) August 10, 2023

By significantly paying a lot of attention to the security aspect, the Polygon Miden promises to revolutionize the use of DeFi protocols to mainstream users. Moreover, the more users generate their proofs and maintain privacy, the more scalable Polygon Miden becomes.

“Privacy is not a secondary effect of the overall design of Polygon Miden. Privacy is its core feature, a benefit for applications and their users, and likely one of the missing pieces for broad adoption of blockchain technology,” Polygon noted in a blog post.

In addition to ensuring secure transactions, Polygon Miden also enables private smart contracts. Essentially, the use of private smart contracts via the Polygon Miden ensures seamless interaction between individuals and public smart contracts like DEX. As a result, enterprises seeking to build and execute their business logic on the Polygon Miden can keep their information hidden from competitors but visible to auditors.

Market Outlook

The Polygon network, although named among other digital assets as unregistered securities in the United States, has attracted significant attention from institutional and retail investors. Ranked among the top 20 digital assets by valuation, Polygon (MATIC) had a market capitalization of approximately $6.4 billion. According to the latest crypto market data, MATIC price trades around 68 cents with a 24-hour trading volume of about $180 million. However, crypto market experts believe the Polygon (MATIC) will be among the best performers with deep liquidity in the next major bull rally.

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Filed under: Bitcoin - @ August 11, 2023 4:21 pm