<h2>Polygon Plus Mina Protocol Equals Privacy</h2>
<h3>This Is Huge And Much Needed</h3>
<h3>Mina Protocol’s privacy-preserving technology will now be supported on the popular Ethereum scaling solution Polygon</h3>
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<h3>Mina Protocol’s privacy-preserving technology will now be supported on the popular Ethereum scaling solution Polygon.</h3>
By <a href="https://decrypt.co/author/liam-j-kelly">Liam J. Kelly</a>

2 min read

<time datetime="2021-09-09T16:01:15Z">Sep 9, 2021</time>

<a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-polygon-matic-and-why-it-matters-for-ethereum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Polygon</a>, the popular scaling solution for <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-ethereum-quickly-explained-four-minute-guide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ethereum</a>, and Mina Protocol, a lightweight, <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/smart-contracts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">smart contracts</a> platform, have announced a bridge to merge the two technologies.

Pitched as the “world’s smallest blockchain,” the Mina Protocol weighs in at just a few kilobytes compared to Ethereum’s 300-gigabyte blockchain. This means that syncing the Mina network is also much easier for the average user; instead of hefty hardware demands, you can run a full Mina node from your smartphone.

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It’s able to condense its network to this size thanks to its use of <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/privacy-coins-and-zk-snarks-how-do-they-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">zero-knowledge proofs</a>, a privacy-centric piece of cryptography.

Today’s collaboration means that developers can now build applications on Polygon using Mina’s recursive zk-SNARK-enabled applications, or “Snapps.”

The technical jargon can be boiled down to this: By using zero-knowledge proofs, these types of applications can keep certain features hidden from different parties.

Instead of being able to quickly find who owns the most expensive non-fungible token (<a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-explained-guide-learn-blockchain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFT</a>) on Polygon, Snapps could hide the owner’s identity. Likewise for sensitive KYC information; a crypto protocol that needs these details could use a Snapp to affirm, without exposing, key information like a passport number or birthdate.

Essentially, developers will now have the ability to include privacy features into any application that they now build on Polygon.

“Building a bridge between Polygon and Mina is an important step towards achieving our shared vision of a fully decentralized ecosystem of dapps that keeps users in control of their data,” said the co-founder of Polygon, Sandeep Nailwal.
<h2>Polygon goes private</h2>
The tie-up adds to Polygon’s focus on improving scalability through privacy-preserving technologies. In August, the scalability project <a href="https://blog.hermez.io/polygon-hermez-merge/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener">acquired Hermez</a>, a scalability solution that uses zero-knowledge rollups, for 250 million MATIC tokens.

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At press time, both native tokens of each project are on the up. MATIC, Polygon’s token, is up nearly 5% over the past 24 hours. MINA is up nearly 30% over the same period.

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