Making Zero-Knowledge Smart Contract Development Accessible, Secure & Practical

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A virtual LF Decentralized Trust meetup hosted on October 22, 2025 featuring Kevin Millikin speaking about the Minokawa project that is focused on making zero-knowledge smart contract development accessible, secure & practical. Minokawa was designed under the Compact brand with a clear set of goals: to make zero-knowledge smart contract development accessible, secure, and practical for real-world applications. Compact’s features and capabilities are now at the core of Minokawa. They include: * Privacy by default * Strong static typing * Zero-Knowledge proof integration * Separation of public and private state * Developer accessibility At its core, Minokawa addresses the structural limitations that have historically constrained the development of private, trustworthy smart contracts. On most blockchains, both contract state and logic are fully transparent, which makes them rather unsuitable for applications that involve sensitive information, such as credentials, personal identity, private preferences, or proprietary business logic. Slides from this presentation are at: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZZbshZK54mzj8I39sU9tLXEe056wr1snz7f34zaR8Ek/edit?slide=id.gdfa3e222b6_0_384#slide=id.gdfa3e222b6_0_384 For more about Minokawa, check out the Github repo at: https://github.com/LFDT-Minokawa ----------------------------------- LF Decentralized Trust is the premier open source foundation for collaborative development of a broad range of technologies and standards that deliver the transparency, reliability, security, and efficiency required for a digital-first economy. Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/dYtPHgVsCp Learn more: https://www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/