Building a Shielded Token dApp on Midnight: From Compact Contract to React UI

Short summary

Tutorial on building a privacy-preserving token dApp on Midnight blockchain. Explains Midnight's architecture where the ledger layer handles zero-knowledge proofs while the contract layer (written in Compact language) handles authorization. Includes working code examples for minting/burning circuits with security patterns for key derivation and domain-separated hashing.

• •Midnight blockchain splits privacy between ledger (ZK proofs) and contract (authorization) layers
• •Compact language tutorial with working code for shielded token minting/burning
• •Security patterns: witness functions, domain-separated hashing, private key derivation

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