ChainCatcher news, Polygon posted on X that the Polygon Miden Alpha testnet is now live.It is reported that Polygon Miden is a zk-STARK based Ethereum-compatible solution under Polygon, aimed at addressing the challenges of rollups that struggle to support arbitrary logic and transactions. Users on Miden can generate proofs for their state transitions locally without disclosing their state to the network.

ChainCatcher news, Polygon posted on platform X that the Miden Compiler is being deployed to Polygon Miden as a rollup supporting smart contracts written in Rust, and it may also support other developer-friendly languages in the future. It can serve in two ways:As a compiler backend for existing languages, aiming to target Miden Assembly;As a means to compile WebAssembly code generated by another compiler into Miden Assembly.