Stake w/ Zeit to Earn $Night

@MidnightNtwrk $night token will be a Top 10 coin within 1 year?! Agree or Disagree?

Hydra 1.3.0 is here. Hydra is a scaling solution unique to Cardano that Ethereum and Solana simply can't build. I personally have massive expectations for Hydra. It's the single biggest reason I believe in Cardano's future. It's only been six months since v1.0 last October, and we're already at 1.3.0. Head initialization costs cut by ~4x. Cardano's L2 is quietly getting to production level. Hydra doesn't just deliver an insane user experience. I think it's a perfect fit for the agent economy that's about to blow up. Cardano is moving fast on all fronts!

For nearly a decade, Cardano has been one of the largest, most reliable, and secure blockchains, with zero downtime since its launch in 2017. Cardano runs on eUTXO, an extension of Bitcoin’s UTXO accounting model, with native programmability. Transactions execute in parallel. Multiple assets settle in a single transaction. Fees are known before you submit. Smart contract outcomes are deterministic at the protocol level. There are no failed transactions that eat fees. What you model is what executes. Cardano also handles tokens differently. Native Assets inherit the same properties as ADA itself, secured directly at the ledger level. No ERC-20 style smart contracts sit between users and their tokens. Given these architectural differences from EVM chains, a major limitation has always been connectivity: Cardano didn’t speak the same language as the rest of crypto.

All of crypto, connected to Cardano

Midnight 🤝 @Worldpay_Global The network of federated node operators continues to grow as @MidnightNtwrk moves toward mainnet. Now part of one of the world’s largest merchant services providers, serving 6M+ merchants and processing $3.7T in payments annually across 175+ countries, Worldpay joins as a federated node operator — bringing global-scale payments infrastructure to Midnight. Their proof of concept will explore stablecoin payment infrastructure using USDG, demonstrating how merchant networks can adopt DeFi-native settlement rails while maintaining AML/KYC compliance and transaction confidentiality across B2B and B2C flows. Their participation strengthens Midnight’s launch network as the protocol prepares for stable early mainnet operations. 🔗 Read more about Midnight’s mainnet and federated node partners: midnight.network/blog/worldpay-…

Amazing move

@balance_canada Stake with Zeit to earn $night - it rhymes so do it now folk's

We're pleased to announce that institutional clients can now delegate their #Cardano (#ADA) wallet balances to third-party staking pools of their choice. This update allows for the addition of Cardano Staking Pool addresses as external accounts, enabling clients to earn protocol rewards from their ADA held in custody at Balance. Cc. @Cardano_CF @Cardano

Self Disclosure Privacy using ZK Proofs, Demonstrated & Executed Directly on Cardano Preview I built a demo where a customer buys a beer and proves they are 18 or over, without ever showing their ID. No name. No birth year. No photo. Just maths. Two beers were ordered. Two separate transactions. The same proof, reused, no re-verification needed. The blockchain recorded "age verified" both times. That's all it knows. No name. No address. No date of birth. No photo. No personal data of any kind. This runs entirely and directly on Cardano. No sidechains. No L2s. No off-chain verification. The ZK proof is checked by the Plutus V3 validator itself, on-chain, using Groth16. And this isn't just for bars, it works for shops, website signups, any age-restricted service. One credential, reused anywhere. Self disclosure means you choose what to share, and in this case, the customer chose to share nothing except "yes, I'm old enough, give me a nice cold beer." 🍺 Massive shout out to everybody involved in the below! Aiken smart contract language on Cardano (please don't judge my Aiken... I know it's bad 😂) ak-381 by Modulo-P, Groth16 SNARK verification library for BLS12-381 on Aiken Circom + snarkjs, ZK circuit design and proof generation MeshSDK, transaction building and wallet management Blockfrost, blockchain data provider A basic demo to set the stage for further privacy enhancements that can occur directly on Cardano. Self disclosure privacy on Cardano Cheers Cardano 🍻🍻 Beer 1 preview.cardanoscan.io/transaction/23… Beer 2 preview.cardanoscan.io/transaction/65…

@AThrouvalas Give them a loan instead...if p ofita Le pay back if not pay back

My two cents on the Cardano "spending" debate... 🔵🧵 I think Cardano's confusion around deploying capital correctly and fostering real adoption stems from a lack of a dedicated VC arm. There are no VCs in the Cardano ecosystem that are investing meaningful capital into projects with a true mind for *profit.* All of Cardano eco's support has come from public funding (Treasury / Catalyst), supporting infrastructure and commercial products alike with free grants rather than loans or investments. Public funding has a place, especially in the realm of infrastructure that often isn't going to make money on its own. But commercial products? Public funding is quite inefficient for that. Just like in the real world, the private sector delivers higher quality results than big government can. It's about incentives: if I'm spending money that isn't mine, and if my bottom line isn't impacted by how I deploy it, I'm just not motivated to deploy it as efficiently and wisely as possible. So I may find myself throwing good money after bad, toward projects that aren't getting results, because voters / DReps don't reap the reward of a good investment, nor the punishment of a bad one. Not in the same way that a business-minded investment firm would. Do commercial products that attract users need funding? Yes, without question. But the mechanism for funding them needs to change dramatically. Less socialism, more capitalism.

We expected to have it done via Charms in 2025, but it was delayed due to 1) some technical hurdles dealing with Cardano and 2) our team's priority splitting time to form our Cast Bitcoin DEX. Thankfully, we found a workaround for the Cardano roadblock now, and the backend of the DEX is now built. So we're back to full speed on this, and AI is making it soooo fast. All our work on Cardano stuff is open source on our GitHub: github.com/CharmsDev

IOG promotes a brilliant strategy to make Bitcoin DeFi pop on Cardano in a way most other chains can't. 🟠🤝🔵 A P2P Bitcoin credit ecosystem, built by @__fallen_icarus, where Bitcoiners can borrow against their BTC *without liquidation risk.* I'm a Bitcoiner. I would use this.

@MinswapIntern @IOHK_Charles Wen wen wen wen

BREAKING NEWS: CARDANO HAS A MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE ADVANTAGE FOR BITCOIN DEFI 😱😱🔥🔥 @IOHK_Charles says we have a great infrastructural advantage for #Bitcoin DeFi. We have a program called 'Pogan' that we've been working on for a while, to implement that Bitcoin DeFi, led by Omer Husain.

@grok @johannesmkx @MarzzNyc Why do they suck bad at winter Olympics....anyone ever succeeded coming from Iran? @grok

@zeitgeistpool @johannesmkx @MarzzNyc Yes, Iran has about 20-34 ski resorts, thanks to its Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges. Dizin is the largest in the Middle East (18+ km slopes, up to 3,846m altitude), with solid snow and lifts near Tehran. The topography shown in those maps supports excellent skiing terrain.

I just learned that Iran is an extremely mountainous country. If anyone in Tel Aviv or Washington thinks they can beat Iran, they are mentally unwell. It's textbook impossible to defeat a mountainous country because ground troop movements will exhaust the invader. You'll be attacked by guerrillas coming down the hills, killing you all. This is going to be the US Army's Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. You are going to lose this. Mountains are why countries such as mountainous Switzerland also cannot be invaded. To know anything about military strategy, read Von Clausewitz's On War. The German military genius extensively discussed mountains as a 'retarding principle'—mountains slow down military movement. Mountains favor guerilla warfare and make decisive action impossible. Mountains favor the defenders. The invading armies are fighting literal uphill battles. Everyone at the Pentagon has lost their minds. I'm truly stupefied at the lack of functional brains among Western military strategists. What on Earth are you doing? I'm stupefied that anyone thinks the West can defeat Iran. No, you won't. Iran is protected by mountains. It cannot be defeated.

@DennisXKV12 @RocketCrypto69 @grok @AshCrypto $night will be here to save the world soon

@RocketCrypto69 @grok @AshCrypto it means the paper con is now a digital con (infinite) that can monitor your enthusiasm (or not) in real time, and make that decision about you going home from the store with that bag of chips, or even leaving your house in the first place. have a great day.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The US just quietly gave banks the green light to hold tokenized securities and this is a BIG. The Fed, OCC and FDIC just released a joint statement. Three of America's most powerful financial regulators speaking with one voice. The message was simple. Tokenized securities get the same capital treatment as traditional securities. Same rules. Same collateral recognition. Same risk weighting. Blockchain or no blockchain makes no difference. This is bigger than most people realize. Banks were previously sitting on the sidelines waiting for regulatory clarity on crypto assets. That excuse just disappeared. A tokenized Treasury bond is now treated exactly like a regular Treasury bond on a bank's balance sheet. A tokenized stock is treated exactly like a regular stock. Permissioned blockchain or public blockchain. Doesn't matter. Same treatment. What this means in plain English. Every major US bank can now hold, trade and use tokenized assets as collateral without any regulatory penalty. Trillions of dollars in traditional assets are about to find a new home on blockchain. The Wall Street just got permission to move into Crypto on a much bigger scale.

Good lord. ..this is the real deal

@ADA_Stakepool @BrickTowers @leontumatar @SuperSolow @Cardano_CF @DFX_swiss @el__perdido @urbleapp @urbleapp

@BrickTowers @leontumatar @SuperSolow @Cardano_CF @DFX_swiss @el__perdido @urbleapp was ist das für eine ADA Payment app? Oder geht da eine Webseite auf?

You can now pay with $ADA at 137 SPAR stores across Switzerland. In partnership with @DFX_swiss and @BrickTowers, we are helping bring blockchain into everyday commerce through real-time, low-cost retail payments. Read the full press release: cardanofoundation.org/blog/ada-accep…

@mert @elonmusk $night train incoming and I am in...

@elonmusk will the money have privacy guarantees

𝕏 Money

@elonmusk @MetaFinancialAI within @WhatsApp (friends) vs @XMoney (few real friends)- who will win? For me both need $night to remain private

@Teslaconomics Sounds great but only if crypto such as $night will be used. Not sending money in public. Also Whatsapp is where all my friends are....so we will see who is doing it best. Meta or x?

I don’t think people truly understand what’s about to happen with 𝕏 Money. This is Elon going back to his roots - back to x.com - and building what he always wanted in the first place: one place that runs your entire financial life. When he rebranded Twitter to 𝕏 in 2023, he said straight up that we’re adding the ability to conduct your entire financial world. He even said you may not even need a traditional bank account. Most people brushed that off. And now it’s becoming real. 𝕏 Money has already been live in closed beta internally within the company. A limited external beta is expected soon, and they’ve already secured money transmitter licenses in over 40 states plus DC. 𝕏 Payments is registered with FinCEN. Visa is officially partnered. You’ll be able to fund your wallet instantly, send peer-to-peer payments, move money to your bank, and eventually use a debit card. And I think this is just the beginning. This will probably start as a simple wallet where you can send money as easily as sending a DM. With this technology, you can pay creators, pay subscriptions, pay whatever bills, shop inside the app, get paid inside the app, and much more. Then, there will be high-yield savings, you can invest, you can get loans, have money market accounts, maybe even treasury access, cool smart cashtags that let you see live stock prices in your timeline and execute trades seamlessly, crypto integration, potentially full asset management… the list goes on and on… Elon literally said this is meant to be the central source of ALL monetary transactions. Bro… think about that for a sec. Your 𝕏 profile becomes your financial identity. Everyone you follow is already there. Everyone you interact with is already there. That social graph becomes your distribution engine. Like, you won’t need a separate banking app, no need for a separate investing app, no need for a separate payment app… this all lives where you already spend your time. Right here on 𝕏. Look at WeChat in China, which Elon always alluded to. Payments, messaging, shopping, investing - all integrated in one app. It handles $ trillions in volume and became deeply embedded in everyone’s daily life. Now 𝕏 is building the Western version of that, but with a more global reach, and xAI’s AI layered on top of all this. Before you call me crazy, you have to understand how big this opportunity is. Digital payments globally are measured in the tens of $ trillions of dollars annually. Even just capturing a small slice of that across hundreds of millions, and eventually a billion, users can change everything. 𝕏 already has the audience. That lowers customer acquisition costs significantly. Add fintech revenue on top of ads, plus float, plus lending, plus investing tools, and we’re talking about a completely different valuation profile. Now, $44B for this company looks like the bargain of the decade… this was one of the main reasons I invested in 𝕏. And if they execute the way they’ve executed at Tesla and SpaceX, this could truly fundamentally redefine how people handle $ . Most people today still see 𝕏 as just a social media app. I see it as the foundation of a financial system layered on top of a global network. Ultimately becoming the “everything” app. And this I believe is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Elon is calling this a game-changer. I believe him.