Azeem Khan

Azeem Khan spoke at Proof of Talk Paris 2026 as a co-founder of Miden, a blockchain project designed to support private and public transactions. Polygon Labs’ announcement of 29 April 2025 named Khan alongside Bobbin Threadbare and Dominik Schmid in the project’s leadership when Miden spun out of its incubation programme. That announcement described a $25 million seed round led by a16z crypto, 1kx and Hack VC. The financing and Khan’s co-founder role were independently reported by Fortune on the same date.

His public appearances have focused on privacy, blockchain execution and the conditions needed for practical adoption. A February 2026 Rise Up Media episode recorded at ETHDenver identified Khan as Miden co-founder and included a discussion of privacy, policy and the agentic economy. An August 2025 interview on Funded, Now What?! also identified him as co-founder and examined the project’s privacy and compliance direction. His Paris appearance was a fireside conversation on digital-asset market maturity, pairing the project-builder context with an institutional perspective. Miden’s design moves transaction execution and state to user devices, using zero-knowledge proofs to support applications with both public and private data. Polygon’s April 2025 announcement also described the project’s early-developer programme for early developers to test real use cases.

At Proof of Talk Paris 2026, Azeem Khan took part in the fireside conversation "Crypto Winter, Institutional Summer: Accelerating Digital Asset Market Maturity" on 3 June. The session ran from 17:15 to 17:40 on the Hecto Main Stage at the Louvre Palace. The programme also listed Kathleen Wrynn. In that edition’s roster, Kathleen Wrynn was billed with Invesco.