Adrian Kwon Midnight 🕛

Midnight’s developer ecosystem is gaining momentum, and the latest Electric Capital report highlights the growth. The real story is what’s driving it: AI tools, mainnet primitives, builder programs, and ecosystem sprints.

Charles Hoskinson: "Cardano has a two-layer throughput model." ⚡ "With extended UTxO, the core ledger gets faster with Leios, while Hydra provides dedicated throughput for individual apps." Leios and Hydra are essentially two complementary scaling approaches.

💥#Cardano is about to go parabolic and 20$ per coin is coming 🚀

We're hosting a live AMA tomorrow at 15:00 CET with @F_Gregaard, 5am.Earth and @trivolvetech. From farm records to police evidence, both projects are putting real transactions on Cardano. Let’s dig into how. Drop your questions and set your reminders below.

I genuinely don’t understand the whole discussion about why Charles is being criticized for delivering. The man is pushing the boundaries of innovation with a new programming language for $NIGHt, and people are complaining? 💀 Sometimes I really don’t understand this space.

Midnight is now the first privacy-preserving blockchain supported by @dynamic_xyz, a @FireblocksHQ company. For normal users, this changes how you enter the ecosystem: ▫️Embedded Midnight wallets from an email or social login; non-custodial, MPC-based, no browser extension to install. ▫️One wallet, three surfaces: unshielded (public), shielded (private), and DUST (the resource that pays transaction fees). ▫️Transfers route by address prefix: send to an mn_addr... address and it draws from the unshielded pool; send to mn_shield... and it's a shielded transfer. Why this matters to me: Privacy infrastructure only counts if ordinary people can reach it. Most people I teach meet Web3 on a mid-range Android phone. Removing the extension download and the 12-word ritual removes the biggest drop-off point, without the keys moving into someone else's custody. One detail builders should not miss: The docs confirm cross-pool transfers (unshielded to shielded in one send) are not supported yet. If you're building, plan your shield/unshield UX around that now. Check out doc in CS ↓ @MidnightNtwrk @midnightfdn #Night

Next Midnight $NIGHT target are gonna be corporate, financial institutions and world economy but what if Midnight was merely made for human traders?? Thats where Midnight City comes in. Home to all AI agents. Think about that for a moment. Today, we open wallets, approve transactions and interact with blockchain applications ourselves. But imagine a future where AI agents do much of that work. An AI agent paying for services, managing business payments, verifying credentials and more Thousands of automated transactions happening without someone manually approving every step. Now here's the challenge. Would you give an AI agent unrestricted access to your wallet, identity and financial information? Probably not. And that's where Midnight's programmable privacy becomes interesting. Private information - Sensitive data doesn't have to be publicly exposed. Zero-knowledge proofs - Applications can verify rules without revealing everything. Controlled permissions - AI agents could operate within predefined limits. NIGHT + DUST - NIGHT generates DUST, the resource used for Midnight network transactions. Importantly more AI agents means more applications. More applications means more transactions and increase demand for DUST-generating capacity. That's where the long-term $NIGHT valuation discussion gets interesting. We keep asking how many people will adopt Midnight. But perhaps we're asking the wrong question. What happens when AI agents become blockchain users? Millions of transactions will be made before your open and close a single transactions. The next wave of blockchain adoption will not be entirely human.

PRIVATE TRANSACTIONS NOW START WITH JUST AN EMAIL SIGN-IN Dynamic, the wallet company owned by Fireblocks, now supports Midnight, its first privacy blockchain. Users can go straight from email login to a shielded (private) transaction. Dynamic has onboarded 50M+ users. $NIGHT

🏙️ Midnight City Opens the Door to 4 Meme Coin Communities @MidnightCitySim, the living city run by autonomous AI agents and powered by @MidnightNtwrk, says it is exploring ways to welcome meme coin communities into the city. It asked which of 4 communities feels like home: @crawju, @hoskytoken, @NikePig_ADA and @snek. Meme communities bring people, energy and culture. Midnight City is the most visible window into Midnight, so inviting these neighbours could pull a lot of new eyes toward privacy tech. This is an open question to the community, not a launch. No format or date has been announced. Not live yet. Vote for your neighbour. discord.gg/gzFxgFSh9

$ADA Cardano’s treasury is facing a question that goes far beyond copper. Should a blockchain treasury diversify into real-world assets, or should its capital stay focused on growing the ecosystem? Toto Finance’s proposed 22M ADA Strategic Copper Reserve could be a bold step toward RWA adoption. But diversification only makes sense if the risk, execution and potential return justify it. Is this smart treasury management or a risk Cardano doesn’t need? $ADA #Cardano #RWA

UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "if you're a VPN for DeFi, you click the button in your wallet, go through Midnight, do your DeFi on $SOL, $ETH, or $ADA, and from their perspective it's Midnight doing that TX on your behalf—you've added privacy, safety, simplicity, universality."

UPDATE: $NIGHT aims to merge "TradFi and DeFi. The large institutions control liquidity—to attract that, you need solutions with privacy, selective disclosure, the ability to trade privately, dark pools. Offer Files on Midnight gives you dark pool trading solutions in crypto."

Cardano’s next scaling chapter is approaching. Ouroboros Leios is planned to arrive with the Dijkstra hard fork. 📈 3–5× initial throughput target 🚀 10–15× targeted through later upgrades The rollout will be gradual, guided by real mainnet results and governance approval. More capacity. More room for Cardano to grow. Scaling with a plan. #Cardano #ADA #Leios

UPDATE: Nightmode can "extend Midnight's privacy to other chains—Ethereum, Bitcoin, many others. Through a multi-signature MPC, you're able to bridge those tokens into a private vault in Midnight. You get all the shielded privacy and selective disclosure benefits of Midnight."