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Midnight is live, and so is midnight.fun, and it's worth understanding what it actually is: - Explore live dapps and games - Track what's being built as the ecosystem expands - This is where you can start to experience privacy built directly into apps This is the first wave, not the full picture; more are coming. Explore what's already live: midnight.fun

Don’t sleep on this 1 node today Multi-client future loading… Not live yet, but this is where real resilience begins. 👇

@AdaBrooksie SOL 2018?

Cardano needs to stop spending so much and invest only in things that produce a return. Hook up with a pension fund for advice.

@CardanoG1 SOL didn't exist in 2018

This is pure manipulation and data cherry-picking, designed specifically to make Cardano look bad. Bitcoin NOV 2021 = 67700 USD MAR 2026 = 67700 USD Ethereum FEB 2021 = 2040 USD MAR 2026 = 2040 USD x.com/AdaBrooksie/st…

🔥HOSKINSON: CRYPTO HAS BEEN SOLVING THE WRONG PROBLEMS Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says crypto failed to break into the real-world economy and points to his $200M privacy-focused project Midnight that went live today, as the solution.

@CryptoWatcherOG @midnightfdn @MidnightNtwrk That’s an entry you may regret later.

@midnightfdn @MidnightNtwrk Congratulations

Midnight is live 🥳 Today marks the launch of the @MidnightNtwrk, a defining step forward in blockchain infrastructure and the realization of a fourth-generation architecture. Rather than forcing a trade-off between transparency and privacy, Midnight allows both to coexist. Developers can build applications where user data remains private, while key conditions can still be proven on-chain, unlocking entirely new design space across financial products, identity systems, and decentralized applications. Welcome to privacy by default, and disclosure by choice. Read the full announcement, including details on the network’s phased rollout designed to ensure stability, security, and long-term resilience as the ecosystem expands: x.com/MidnightNtwrk/…

@cryptorover Same guy who was promoting FTX?

💥BREAKING: Kevin O’Leary says Bitcoin and Ethereum capture 98% of crypto. Calls the rest of crypto “poo poo.”

🔖 NEW ARTICLE The walls between Cardano and Bitcoin are slowly coming down. This month two teams shared meaningful updates on connecting the blockchains together. Read about the Progress on Cardano-Bitcoin Interoperability in this article 👇 cexplorer.io/article/progre…

I disagree. It’s clear we have insufficient controls and are exposed to unnecessary risk. Taking a position of voting everything down if the submission is substandard will put more pressure on those seeking funds for clarity and creates a high standard with more transparency. If #Cardano is to improve in its development quicker, it needs to update its internal controls. Do it once, do it right.

@WylanCoffman Mastery of governance is the ability to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary. Voting NO to everything is an oversimplification that can only bring about the collapse of the ecosystem.

If you are a Cardano DRep, I highly suggest we take a break from funding BULLSHIT!

We are actively working on integrating Cardano into Fireblocks. The integration has been ready & publicly accessible since 3 weeks ago. It is open source. We are further optimizing the integration and looking forward to showcasing a demo video for you. You can check the link below: github.com/fireblocks/car…

Gosh, so much negativity in the Cardano timeline. Let’s clear the air here: Coinmarket rankings don’t matter. Not anymore. This is due to: 1. If you look at the top whatever, 2 of them are stables, and 4 are fake, centralized chains where the numbers are manipulated. Remove these and $ADA ‘s pretty much in the top 10. 2. If you’re worried retail won’t see Cardano because it’s not top 10, take note: retail is no longer relevant. Mcaps are too high for retail to ever leave a mark. 3. Institutions are now the name of the game. The ones with approriate capital do not look at rankings to decide. They’re not idiots. Instead, the metrics that matter are: 1. Look at the tech and its development. Cardano’s still undergoing scaling? Good. Governance, while annoying, is still pretty much working? We’re on the right track. 2. Government legislation is still underway to give clarity to all this. Soon you’ll find there will be 2 lists in coinmarketcap, one for securities and one for proper decentralized commodities. 3. Cardano still attracting devs and institutions? This one honestly is a bit weak at the moment. Thankfully, Midnight’s attracting the right attention, which has a halo effect to Cardano given it’s a CNT. 4. Are the Cardano ecosystem projects still going? Yup, at least the top ones are still humming alongz $SNEK $IAG $FLUID $SURF $STRIKE and many more are still building. Don’t bother with the rankings, they don’t matter anymore.

Change your mindset to better understand what you see. The tech is undervalued and it’s not priced in. Once other L2s like Midnight build on it… People need to be patient and play the long game with #Cardano Its still in its infancy, but the technical foundation as it is today is solid; it will naturally evolve over many years.

I was here the first time Cardano fell below the Top 10. It came back roaring. Before it dropped below again. The good thing is that crypto is very forgiving. The bad thing is that time is running out.

Something you see a lot in this industry is foundations handling everything from protocol development all the way to building end-user products and marketing them. This is especially common with Cosmos SDK-based chains and general-purpose L2s. The most ideal structure in this market is one where the foundation focuses solely on the protocol, and builders focus on products built on top of it. But achieving this kind of ecosystem is extremely difficult. It's really hard to attract builders who voluntarily build products and participate, and it's even harder to create a market where those builder-made products can actually survive and thrive. So when a foundation is doing everything from protocol development to shipping end-user products, that's not something to brag about. It means they're in a difficult position where they have no other choice. And the moment the foundation stops, the ecosystem collapses. Personally, I think that's less of a blockchain network and more of a single solution built entirely by the foundation from start to finish. L1s with this kind of structure aren't sustainable. And that's exactly why growing an ecosystem where many builders emerge and diverse dApps are born is such an incredibly difficult thing to pull off.

@dori_coin We’re currently experiencing some challenging times and some people dislike uncertainty during bear markets. We have exceptional technology and just need to adopt a long-term strategy similar to Bitcoin. I have total faith in #Cardano and its future.

@CardanoTruth yeah, spot on. I think cardano has the kind of L1 ecosystm I see as ideal.

On Vitalik: He didn't abandon the L2 concept. He said generic copy-paste scaling chains are becoming irrelevant because Ethereum L1 is now scaling itself. He explicitly said L2s offering privacy, specialized VMs, and non-financial use cases are exactly what's needed going forward. That describes Midnight almost perfectly. Citing Vitalik as a critique of Midnight is actually the opposite of what he argued. On "building behind the community's back": Midnight was publicly announced at Consensus 2022. It's been discussed openly for years. You can disagree with the direction, but the secrecy narrative doesn't hold up. On liquidity: Yes, new tokens create temporary rotation. That's true of every new asset launch in crypto history. The question is whether the underlying value creation justifies it long term. If Midnight attracts enterprise and privacy use cases that couldn't exist on Cardano L1, that's net new demand, not just reshuffling the same pool. On timing: Fair criticism honestly. Launching a new token in a bear market is rough optics and rough for price action. On "the charts don't lie" cuts both ways. Correlation isn't causation. ADA underperformed well before NIGHT existed.

More tokens spread across the same community and users without attracting anyone new impacts ADA price bc this holders are selling ADA to buy NIGHT. I believe Vitalik is abandoning the L2 concept per the below. Charles was likely planning/building Midnight behind community’s back using resources funded by ADA while launching NIGHT token very quickly in the worst bear market in crypto history and delivering slow on the Cardano side. 😂. Ofc people are not going to be happy Night token was launched at the worst possible time sucking liquidity from ADA and the rest of the ecosystem bc holders are selling other CNTs and ADA for the new shiny NIGHT. Charles tries to deny this, but the charts don’t lie.

Mostly bc Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles launched his new blockchain by pandering to existing ADA holders and diluting their liquidity and discretionary income between NIGHT and ADA. He attempted to pull in new people to NIGHT by air dropping and marketing to other chains, but it failed miserably and now his only hope for NIGHT price appreciation comes at the expense of ADA price as he continues to poach holders, influencers, devs, etc from Cardano and not from any other community bc they are not interested as they have seen many holders lives financially ruined by Cardano while the devs have thrived.

The relevance of Cardano can be ensured by spending Treasury ADA. Nobody cares about the "moneyness" of coins. Only utility ensures relevance. We must think about each ADA and choose the best projects. We must not be afraid to vote NO and insist on improving proposals.

ICYMI: Smart contracts with Scala 3 on Cardano. 🏗️🚀 Alexander Nemish & Oleksii Khodakivskyi (Lantr) showcase how the Scalus framework optimizes on-chain execution for builders. Watch the recorded Session 👇