Ligero × Miden: Partnering to Shape the Future of Scalable, Compliant Privacy
The blockchain world has long faced a paradox: how do you make systems private enough to protect users, compliant enough to satisfy regulators, and scalable enough to serve billions, all without breaking the user experience?
That’s exactly the challenge Ligero and Miden are stepping up to solve. This partnership brings together two teams working at the frontier of cryptography and blockchain infrastructure, combining complementary strengths to tackle Web3’s hardest problem.
Together, we are reimagining what the foundation of Web3 can look like: fast, compliant, and truly private, not as trade-offs, but as the new standard.
Why Client-Side Zero Knowledge Matters
Ligero has developed the only zero-knowledge proof system that can handle very large computations directly on the client side, while maintaining speed, privacy, and ease of use.
Our zkVM, Ligetron, allows developers to build zero-knowledge applications in standard programming languages. This makes it possible to bring privacy to real-world use cases such as proving identity from a digital passport, verifying compliance with sanctions screening or liveness checks, and enabling advanced private applications.
Current systems can scale to millions of constraints on mobile devices
Compliance requirements often demand tens of millions of constraints
Ligero can scale to billions of constraints directly in the browser, making it the most scalable client-side proving technology available today
Ligero proofs are provably zero-knowledge, secure against quantum attacks, and designed for the highest levels of enterprise security. By combining speed, scalability, and an accessible developer platform, Ligero enables programmable and self-sovereign compliance that preserves user privacy.
Why Miden’s Edge Blockchain is a Breakthrough
Miden introduces a new approach to blockchain architecture: the edge blockchain.
Traditional blockchains face major tradeoffs. They struggle to scale, lack enterprise-grade privacy, are hard to build on, or compromise key principles like self-custody and censorship resistance.
Edge blockchains change the equation. With Miden:
Developers can build public and private transactions without needing to learn new programming languages
Privacy, scalability, and safety are preserved together with composability and network effects
This makes Miden the first blockchain designed for mainstream adoption: secure, private, scalable, and developer friendly.
Building Enterprise-Grade Privacy Infrastructure
Ligero and Miden bring complementary strengths to the table.
Miden’s VM is built for applications that need compliant privacy
Ligero’s proving system brings scalable client-side proof generation to those applications
On the technical side, Ligero will extend its support to Miden VM and integrate directly into Miden’s stack. Together, we will create the toolkit that enterprises need for use cases such as:
Private payments
Tokenization of real-world assets
Compliance solutions with privacy guarantees
By combining Ligero’s scalable, post-quantum secure proof system with Miden’s edge blockchain architecture, we are building the infrastructure to move blockchains to the next level: programmable, private, and ready for enterprise adoption.
What’s Next?
This partnership goes beyond technical integration, it’s a shared vision for the future of Web3 where privacy and compliance don’t collide, but coexist.
In the months ahead, Ligero and Miden will roll out developer tools, deeper integrations, and pilot applications that bring this vision to life.
The next generation of blockchain isn’t just an idea, it’s already taking shape. Private. Compliant. Scalable. And it’s being built right now, at the edge.
