🌿 It’s Thursday — here’s everything happening in the Miden ecosystem this week. EthCC[9] — Cannes 📅 Miden protocol engineer Alexander Lee will be on the Taylor Stage on April 1st, speaking on post-quantum digital signature schemes. If you’re in Cannes, 14:50–15:10 is a session worth adding to your schedule. Meet the Team: Daniel 👤 This week we’re spotlighting Daniel, Miden’s Social Lead. He comes from a background in film and media, journalism and marketing in Nigeria’s Nollywood scene, and made his move into crypto after seeing what stablecoins can unlock for people across the Global South. At Miden, he runs communications and is the one making sure everyone gMidens in the AM 🌅 Privacy is having a moment 🌐 It wasn’t just Miden this week. Tether launched QVAC Fabric, enabling billion-parameter AI models to run directly on your phone. No cloud, no data centers, your data stays with you. Hinkal crossed $400M in confidential transaction volume on Solana. And Venice AI launched end-to-end encrypted inference, where your prompt is encrypted on your device and only decrypts inside a verified hardware enclave. Privacy is becoming a real product category across the industry. Miden has been building it from the ground up. The community is noticing too: 💬 “Strongest post quantum roadmap is to be post quantum from the ground up. Study @0xMiden.” — @zkgaylord 💬 “The more you research privacy and blockchains, the clearer it becomes that Miden is the most elegant and future-proof design.” Building on Miden 🏗️ Agentic tooling has changed what it means to build on Miden. Before: days reading docs, steep learning curve, weeks before shipping anything. After: 11 developers shipped working contracts in a single day. The barrier to building is coming down fast. And if you’ve ever wondered why Miden approaches privacy the way it does — adding privacy to an existing chain means working against how that chain was built. Re-execution-based verification makes every privacy layer expensive. Miden is built with ZK at the core, so verification never requires re-execution. Privacy isn’t an add-on. It’s the default, and it’s cheaper than going public. Partner update 🤝 Para, which powers Miden’s embedded wallet infrastructure, just launched Transaction Permissions in partnership with Eco and Aave. Permissions are cryptographically scoped to each app, fully customizable, and built for real fintech products. More control, better security, and smoother UX for everyone building on Miden. That’s the week. Stay building 🌿 @0xMiden