Privacy projectMina: Succinct blockchain. Technology: zero-knowledge proofs.
Mina keeps the entire blockchain small enough to verify on a phone, using recursive zero-knowledge proofs so that a constant-size proof stands in for the whole chain history. It is one of the most elegant applications of recursive proving anywhere, and it makes verification genuinely accessible rather than something only well-resourced nodes can do. Its smart contract layer, written in TypeScript, is a distinctive developer story. Privacy on Mina comes from what applications choose to prove rather than from shielded state by default.
Key facts
- Entry type
- Privacy project
- Category
- Succinct blockchain
- Technology
- Zero-knowledge proofs (ZK)
- Website
- minaprotocol.com
What is zero-knowledge proofs?
One party proves a statement about hidden data is true without revealing the data the statement is about.
How it compares with the other approaches on latency, trust assumptions and fit is set out, with sources, in the technology taxonomy.
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