Buying coffee at a convenience store and suddenly hesitating while swiping the card. It’s not about the money; it’s that feeling—the system seems to intuitively know: who I am, which store I frequent, what time I made a purchase, what I bought, and even what I might want to drink next. In real life, we’ve long accepted one thing: not all information needs to be disclosed all at once. When swiping at a community access control, there’s no need to report your bank balance; at airport security, no one cares about your chat history; renting a house and verifying identity doesn’t require revealing your entire life story. This is the privacy of the “normal world.”

But when it comes to blockchain, the moment privacy is mentioned, the tone becomes extreme. It’s either “completely public to the point of social death,” or “completely hidden as if doing something bad.” So the market’s first reaction is always: black box, compliance risks, only tech geeks play. It wasn’t until I understood what @0xPolygon’s ecosystem @0xMiden was talking about that I realized it’s actually very “everyday.” It doesn’t pursue absolute anonymity but is doing something more realistic: enabling ordinary users to have privacy without sacrificing experience or crossing red lines.

Miden’s logic is actually very simple—breaking down into three parts: which information must be public, which information can be selectively disclosed, and which verifications can be completed without exposing the data itself. In plain language, it’s bringing Web3 back to common sense: privacy doesn’t equal violation, and transparency doesn’t mean exposing everything. Large-scale adoption doesn’t rely on extremes; it depends on making it comfortable for ordinary people, not frightening for institutions, and not raising obvious regulatory issues. Some things may seem harmless at first glance, but once they become the “default setting,” you’ll realize: oh, it’s been like this all along.