Imagine this: In the morning, you pay by scanning a code with your phone at a coffee shop, which actually runs a segment of the @0xMiden contract locally, generating a proof; in the afternoon, you play GameFi, and in the evening, you engage in DeFi, all executed on your own device, only sending a small piece of proof to the chain. The chain's role has changed from "a big computer shared by everyone" to "a globally shared verification layer", while your phone is the true machine running the business.

If the mobile phone is the true protagonist of the blockchain, then what role is @0xMiden playing?

In recent days, many people outside have been explaining what "edge blockchain" actually means: it involves moving the execution of smart contracts directly to the user side, with the blockchain only responsible for verifying zero-knowledge proofs, while conveniently solving the problem of state explosion.

You can think of it as a default assumption that "every user has a small computing box (mobile phone, browser, WASM client)" for L2: transactions run locally, proofs are computed locally, and the blockchain is just a super strict "auditor." Miden itself has consistently emphasized in its GitHub and documentation that this is an edge blockchain designed for the next generation of financial applications.

Miden Wallet, as a Chrome extension, is a "local execution + local proof" wallet tailored for this blockchain. The early technical blog of Polygon also mentioned that the team is moving the entire Miden client to WASM and WebGPU, hoping to ultimately achieve proof generation in seconds on browsers and even mobile devices, which is the true mobile-first blockchain.