Miden & the Edge Blockchain with Bobbin & Gaylord

In this episode, Anna Rose (x.com/annarrose) and Guillermo Angeris (x.com/GuilleAngeris) speak with Bobbin Threadbare (x.com/bobbinth) and Gaylord Warner (x.com/zkGaylord) from Miden (miden.xyz) to explore their zkVM and edge blockchain architecture. The group also reminisces on how they've each been a part of the ZK Whiteboard Sessions over the years.

Bobbin shares Miden's earliest beginnings from Winterfell at Facebook through its development within Polygon to the recent spin-out as an independent project. The team discusses their custom ISA designed for blockchain use cases, and the multi-stage compilation pipeline that supports it. The conversation also covers Miden's pragmatic approach to privacy implementation, their plans for gradual decentralization starting with a centralized L2, and how they incentivize users to keep state off-chain through multidimensional fee structures.

Related Links
• ZK Whiteboard (zkhack.dev/whiteboard)
• Episode 373: Ethproofs, zkVM Benchmarks & the Unstoppable Rise of ZK with Justin Drake (zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/373)
• Episode 369: Ligero for Memory-Efficient ZK with Muthu (zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/369)
• Episode 367: Local-First with grjte and Goblin Oats (zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/367)
• Episode 365: ZK in Sui & zkAt with Kostas Kryptos (zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/365)
• Episode 210: The Road to STARKs and Miden with Bobbin Threadbare (zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/210)
• The Miden Compiler v0.4.0 – A Major Milestone (miden.xyz/resource/blog/compiler-release-04)
• ZK Whiteboard Sessions - Module Four: SNARKs vs STARKs with Bobbin Threadbare (youtube.com/watch?v=qUrA97TG2YU&list=PLj80…)
• ZK13: Lifted FRI: A uniform multi-domain polynomial commitment scheme (youtube.com/watch?v=p6Z3WjRcZD0)
• ZK Study Club - STARKs overview - Session 4 (youtube.com/watch?v=GXlcFKSIQwY)
• ZK Hack Berlin (zkhack.dev/zkhack-berlin-hackathon)
• Winterfell (github.com/facebook/winterfell)
• Fruity Friends (devfolio.co/projects/fruity-friends-ef88)
• Gaylord's X post that inspired the interview (x.com/zkGaylord/status/1955624100577349834)!

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