@pipsandbills
miden is one of the strongest zero-knowledge VMs being built today.
It gives you:
• private computation (your execution trace stays hidden)
• STARK-based cryptography method
• verifiable correctness
• a scalable zk-first architecture
this is huge.
but there’s one thing miden cannot give: a guarantee of end-to-end encryption.
why? because zk proves correctness, it does not hide data but when you combine that with fhe, you can have computation on a hidden data that has been proved correct!
meaning:
• storage = encrypted
• mempool = encrypted
• execution = encrypted
• state = encrypted
• node visibility = zero
this is the actual end-to-end encryption.
so with zama inside miden, you could have an end-end encrypted chain that works even if the sequencer operator are malicious
tldr
miden gives private computation.
zama gives private data.
put them together and you get something better:
a verifiable, encrypted, adversary-proof L2.