Practical privacy for the future of finance. Miden builds privacy and compliance infrastructure for financial institutions and digital asset businesses. Transactions stay private at the protocol level while remaining auditable to the parties who need to see them, so regulated firms can move assets, settle, and reconcile without exposing counterparties, balances, or strategy to the public. Spun out of Polygon and backed by a16z, 1kx, and HackVC, Miden is the privacy and compliance layer for the next generation of financial services.
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Hard to know what to write about these days. There is so much going on. But I wanted to take a look at the controversy about Flock this summer. How come people get so agonized about traffic cameras, but generally accept more serious privacy intrusions online?
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The Cointelegraph event was honestly one of the highest-signal events I attended this week, especially in a week flooded with side events. For the most part, the industry has been given two choices: fully public ledgers or attempts at full anonymity. We think both create problems when dealing with financial institutions. I often get pushback from privacy maxis who believe Miden should offer full privacy, but that’s not who we’re building for. We believe privacy can’t come at the expense of compliance, and that the right place to reconcile the two is at the application layer. That’s where Guardian comes in. It’s also clear how early we are. I’m still surprised by how many people are astonished that Miden can offer privacy and compliance at the same time. There’s a lot more work to do here, but the idea that financial privacy and compliance have to be at odds is one we’re trying to leave behind.
🇰🇷 CONNECT: Does financial privacy have to come at the expense of compliance? “We don't believe that privacy should be a binary,” Miden’s Azeem Khan said, arguing that onchain privacy can coexist with KYC, AML and other regulatory requirements.
Run payroll on most public blockchains and every salary payment can be seen and traced. That exposure is one reason many finance teams keep stablecoins out of core operations. Private stablecoins are built to solve that problem. We recently announced USDCx, a USDC-backed stablecoin issued on Miden via Circle xReserve. It works like the USDC you already know, while keeping transactions private by default. Paired with Miden's programmable privacy, USDCx lets you prove what auditors and counterparties need to see without publishing everything else. With USDCx on Miden, you can: 🔸Pay employees without publishing salaries. 🔸Manage treasury without exposing balances. 🔸Settle with suppliers without revealing commercial relationships. If stablecoins made money internet-native, private stablecoins make it usable for business.
Next week, our co-founder Azeem Khan heads to Seoul for the Korea Blockchain Week 2026. Azeem will be speaking on "Who Sees Your Data: Privacy at the Crossroads of Crypto and AI" at KBW2026, one of Asia's largest gatherings for institutions and builders working in digital assets. If you're at KBW2026, come catch the session and say hi.
BREAKING: Azeem Khan of Miden is speaking at KBW2026! See him in Seoul!
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Sempo will be launching soon for users & teams, so here is my pitch: - free on/off ramps for your treasury. fund on/offchain, pay out via ACH, domestic wire, SEPA or SWIFT - move stablecoins across 3 chains - Cards, banking rails, AP/AR and stablecoins in one place, less tools beats more tools - multiple entities under one login - your labs, foundation, opco entities are all welcome, we onboard companies from 150 countries - we make your accountant happy. one ledger, one audit trail and direct ERP sync for both fiat and stablecoin transactions so they spend less time deciphering the explorers - INSTAPAY Enabled for EGP payouts & collections Send money back to your home without a headache.
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The doomerism about AI is a boring trope and overplayed hand at this point. AI in our lives doesn���t have to be a binary of taking over the world or being a dumb version of Wikipedia that agrees with everything we say. As it evolves, we need to create guardrails around its activity to best protect the humans it’s working on behalf of. That’s why we built Guardian. Here at Miden, we’re here to show you how the actual future of agents onchain will look. Seamless, private, and acting in our best interests. Thanks to MTS Live for having me on to chat about this. And even more thanks to the amazing Sophia Dew being the best host.
Miden is going to mainnet in a few weeks. Testnet v0.16 is our final major testnet release before then. For the first time, fees are live on testnet. We've improved swaps and bridges to the wider Ethereum ecosystem are ready for testing. Also, private transaction inputs are now encrypted before submission. These are the kinds of improvements that matter as Miden moves from testnet to a network people can use with real money. The technology is almost ready for public use. Mainnet is coming.
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Zcash was up 42% last week. What's driving the privacy coin's overperformance?
"Could've cost millions." That's how Trail of Bits refers to a bug they found in the Miden VM core library while testing our systems from the ground up. The key word is could've, because they found it, and fixed it. Miden VM runs on its own assembly language, MASM. When Trail of Bits first looked at MASM, it had almost no developer tooling: no editor support, no linter, no static analyzer. So they spent six months building it all from scratch, before the review even started. AI helped. ToB's agents, both Claude and Codex, built an editor plugin, a decompiler, a static analysis engine, and a formal model of the VM in Lean, under human supervision. That’s 100+ commits of tooling that didn't exist, enabling humans to go deeper than any manual review, Trail of Bits says. The results: 🔸A high-severity signature-forgery bug, caught and fixed pre-launch 🔸95 machine-checked correctness proofs covering the core library's binary arithmetic 🔸A static analysis engine we've adopted permanently -- every future change gets the same scrutiny Trail of Bits looked at where security reviews are headed in the age of AI. What can agents build and how do you manage them? And, why the economics of deep audits just changed. https://lnkd.in/eD75A3mv
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Stablecoins are entering their next phase of adoption. At CONNECT Seoul, industry leaders explore the infrastructure and market forces needed to take them further into global finance. • Haonan Li, Co-Founder & CEO, Codex • Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President, Digital Asset, Franklin Templeton • Azeem Khan, Co-Founder, Miden • Wook Lee, Founder & CEO, EDENA Capital Partners Sept. 29 | Seoul Join here: https://luma.com/xxwrhox8