Miden has announced its partnership with Gateway.fm, a complete ecosystem for launching enterprise-grade blockchain applications. This collaboration aims to ensure network uptime, fast and reliable access to transactional data, and seamless handling of technically complex integrations. The partnership is designed to bolster Miden’s performance and reliability as it progresses towards widespread real-world adoption.
Pradeep Singh, Co-founder & CEO of Gateway.fm said: “We’re proud to support Miden’s mission to build a scalable, privacy-focused blockchain network. At Gateway.fm, our goal is to empower visionary teams with reliable, enterprise-grade and compliant infrastructure so they can focus on innovation, not maintenance.”
Miden: A Blockchain Designed for Institutional Adoption
Miden was engineered to achieve privacy without compromising scalability. It offers the benefits of blockchain technology while addressing the lack of confidentiality that has historically hindered institutional adoption. Miden provides users with the flexibility to choose between public and private transactions, paving the way for a new category of business applications on-chain.
Its architecture was specifically developed with financial applications in mind, catering to systems that require both high throughput and confidentiality. For instance, Miden is well-suited for private asset management use cases, where organizations of all sizes, from small and medium-sized businesses to large institutions, need to securely move and account for assets without exposing sensitive underlying data.
Unlike many privacy solutions that rely on encryption or transaction obfuscation, Miden employs a fundamentally different approach. Instead of concealing data within the chain, Miden achieves privacy through edge execution. Transactions are processed locally on the user’s device, and only zero-knowledge proofs (ZK proofs) of correctness are submitted to the network. This ensures that raw data remains under the user’s control, while all computations are verifiable and consistent with the global state.
With execution occurring entirely on the user's side, network validators are no longer required to re-execute computations to reach consensus. Their role is simplified to verifying ZK proofs, which significantly reduces the computational burden on validator nodes, speeds up transaction processing, and conserves storage space.
Consequently, validators no longer need to maintain individual wallet balances or detailed transaction histories. They exclusively store a cryptographic hash of the global blockchain state, the integrity of which is mathematically guaranteed by advanced zero-knowledge cryptography.
Miden was the pioneering project to explore the concept of edge execution, and it stands as the first production-grade blockchain to formalize and implement this concept using ZK technology, representing a significant advancement in blockchain architecture.
Gateway.fm: Infrastructure Partner for the New Era
The selection of Gateway.fm as its infrastructure partner signals Miden's strong long-term vision and preparedness for large-scale growth. Gateway.fm, recognized for its profound expertise in core blockchain protocols, is an ideal match for innovation-focused projects that demand exceptional engineering and creative problem-solving.
The company's accomplishments underscore its capabilities. Gateway.fm played a crucial role in the development of Erigon, known as one of the most efficient Ethereum execution clients. Its engineers also contributed to a substantial upgrade of the Polygon CDK stack, which led to a more than thirtyfold increase in the potential throughput for CDK-based networks. Furthermore, Gateway successfully managed the migration of Palm Network from Hyperledger to an Ethereum Layer-2 architecture, a complex transition that was completed without any downtime and with complete preservation of historical data.
Currently, Gateway.fm operates and maintains multiple production mainnets and large-scale testnets for partners worldwide, ensuring high availability, low-latency access, enterprise-grade reliability, and compliant infrastructure operations for all partner networks.
Igor Mandrigin, CTPO of Gateway.fm said: “This collaboration goes beyond infrastructure. It’s about bringing Miden’s zero-knowledge technology to life at scale. Their edge-execution model represents a significant leap forward in blockchain design, and we’re excited to help operationalize it in production.”
The positive impact of selecting Gateway.fm as an infrastructure partner has already been observed with blockchains such as Gnosis. These networks have experienced rapid expansion in their market presence, a significant increase in their user base, a surge in adoption, and have garnered favor from developers attracted by reliable, uninterrupted access to network data, high throughput, and exceptional uptime.
A Strategic Ecosystem Partnership
The collaboration between Miden and Gateway.fm extends beyond a standard service agreement; it is an ecosystem partnership. Within this framework, Gateway.fm functions as a technical partner, undertaking the critical infrastructure responsibilities. This includes ensuring optimal network performance, executing timely upgrades, and managing ongoing maintenance.
This arrangement liberates the Miden team to concentrate on expanding the ecosystem. Their efforts can be directed towards attracting liquidity, engaging developers, and forging strategic alliances to accelerate adoption.
Dominik Schmid, Co-founder and Head of Product at Miden said: “With Gateway.fm, we are partnering with one of the most reliable infrastructure providers. They will run our native bridge, provers and the block explorer. We are more than happy to have such a brilliant team on our side who can dig really deep into Miden’s novel architecture.”
About Gateway.fm
Gateway.fm is a Web3 infrastructure platform that offers a comprehensive suite of blockchain services to forward-thinking teams across Web3, fintech, and other sectors. Gateway.fm provides a unified Web3 ecosystem, facilitating everything from the launch of new blockchains to the delivery of turnkey Web3 applications for enterprises. As a trusted partner to prominent entities such as Polygon, Gnosis, Erigon, NEAR, Lido, Flare, Synthetix, and The Ethereum Foundation, Gateway.fm combines robust infrastructure with expert advisory and dedicated hands-on support. This holistic approach positions Gateway.fm as the ideal partner for both Web3-native projects and traditional enterprises exploring blockchain innovation.