Polygon Labs issued a statement stating that the Polygon Miden public testnet of the Miden virtual machine powered by zk-STARK is expected to be launched in Q4. The core goal of Polygon Miden is to expand the feature set of EVM to create a forward-looking scaling solution. Still inherits the security of Ethereum.

On Polygon Miden, users can create and trade any fungible and non-fungible assets. The goal is for all assets on Polygon Miden to be processed natively in the same way as the ETH token on the Ethereum network.