Many systems treat on-chain state as a "shared database,"

all computations revolve around this public state.

@0xMiden's account model is distinctly different.
Here, accounts are more like constrained state machines,
each state change itself is a computational process that needs to be proven.

This leads to an important result:
State growth no longer necessarily means verification costs spiral out of control,
because state changes are inherently verifiable units by design.

This doesn't make development easier,
but it makes the long-term operation of complex systems more manageable from an engineering perspective.