Miden is starting to look like one of those “oh, this was obvious in hindsight” infra plays that just builds quietly until everyone wakes up at once. @0xMiden Spun out of the Polygon stack and backed by a 25M seed led by a16z crypto, 1kx and Hack VC, it’s explicitly designed as an edge blockchain for institutions that need both speed and confidentiality, not just another L2 with a new badge. If you read their “Our Vision for Miden” and “Privacy Simply Scales Better” posts, the model is pretty clean ❯ your device runs the transaction locally and generates a STARK proof ❯ the network only verifies that proof and updates commitments ❯ raw balances, logic and state never need to hit the chain in the first place So when people call it the Edge Blockchain, it is not just branding. It literally inverts the usual flow where nodes do all the heavy lifting and users just sign. Here the user’s hardware is the engine, the chain is the referee. If you care about where private payments, RWA flows or institutional DeFi actually land over the next cycle, I’d keep @0xMiden on the short list and watch what they ship on top of this execution model next