Managing private state in Midnight DApps

Most blockchains make a trade-off that many developers don't notice until it's too late: everything on-chain is public. Wallet balances, transaction histories, and identity proofs are all visible to anyone who looks. For many DApps, this is a fundamental blocker. You cannot build a private voting system, a confidential financial tool, or an identity layer if every piece of data you store is readable by the entire network.t Midnight solves this with private state : data that lives only on the use