Mina Protocol MINA

Mina Protocol (MINA) was trading at $0.0701, ranked #287 by market cap at $90.57M, with 24h volume of $13.72M.

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Mina keeps its entire blockchain at roughly 22 kilobytes — small enough to verify on a phone — by replacing the history with a recursive zero-knowledge proof that the whole chain was valid. Instead of every node storing years of blocks, each new proof attests to the one before it, which is a genuinely different answer to blockchain bloat than sharding or pruning. Mina's distinguishing claim is size: instead of growing without limit, the chain is compressed to a fixed-size cryptographic proof that any device can verify, so participation does not require downloading a large history. That makes trust-minimised verification possible in a browser or on a phone, and it is the basis for its zero-knowledge application tooling. The trade-off is that heavy proving work happens off-chain. On a market map MINA is a small-cap Layer 1 whose moves have tracked the wider zero-knowledge and privacy-adjacent narrative more than its own usage.

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