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Polygon Co-Founder Shares Optimism on New Miden Alpha Testnet

Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of Polygon Layer-2 blockchain, has shared the vision of the recently launched  Miden Alpha Testnet. According to Polygon, the Miden Alpha Testnet is a zk self-sovereign chain, particularly designed for developers.

The Goal of Polygon MidenVM

Nailwal describes the platform as an alternative Virtual Machine (VM) similar to SolanaVM or MoveVM which implements multiple pioneering paradigms. The co-founder says the goal of the MidenVM is to allow high throughput and low latency applications such as Order Book DEXs, and Perpetual swaps. These are aimed at ensuring a smooth and responsive user experience for these demanding applications.

In addition, Nailwal emphasized that MidenVM is created on core blockchain principles. These principles include privacy, light clients for mobile devices, and client-side proving, amongst others. He concludes that he hopes MidenVM will mature quickly.

Following the release of the Miden Alpha Testnet, Polygon said users can locally generate proofs for their state transitions. As opposed to earlier provisions, this will protect the developers from revealing their state to the entire networ...