Stake with Pride 🌈 Midnight + Cardano

Monero is a privacy legend and @IOHK_Charles says Midnight has an open door to collaborate as $XMR infrastructure layer for private DeFi. "Monero is what Bitcoin should have been...And they've been pioneers in a lot of stuff. And we have an open door and would love to collaborate with them on a lot of stuff or if anything, just to help them with liquidity and DeFi and these other things and be really excited to bring that to bear in that ecosystem."

Crypto is actually the solution to the insanity of the world. In this video, $ADA founder @IOHK_Charles explains how @MidnightNtwrk brings privacy and sovereignty to the world in a time it’s much needed. 00:00 Intro 1:32 Cardano Updates 6:17 Simplifying Crypto for Users 9:17 Developing with AI 16:08 Governance on Midnight City 19:29 Transparency Through Blockchain 22:45 Midnight Privacy 12:24 The Complexity of Crypto 31:16 XRP Price Appreciation 35:07 Distractions and Clarity 44:11 Anti-Crypto Government 1:04 Outro

@davidgokhshtein 😆 my first few captions were NSFW before I settled on this one.

@StakeWithPride He broke it down in Layman’s terms.

Web 2: they'll freeze your stuff. Web 2.5: they might freeze your stuff. Web 3: good luck freezing my stuff. Midnight gives you more control. $NIGHT

It’s Midnight… Not literally, but it’s @MidnightNtwrk who is striving to help onboard the endless list of Fortune 500 companies that flop massively when trying to adopt crypto. Here’s why $NIGHT could be a key player in 2026 and beyond…👇

Should we host a Cardano Memecoin leadership summit at the IOG office?

Filecoin, Cardano, and Midnight are connecting decentralized storage with privacy-preserving infrastructure.

I’m quietly buying as much $NIGHT at .03 as I can afford. Call it a hunch.

At @blockworksDAS, Mintoo Bhandari, Founder of Monument Bank, breaks down how Monument became the first bank to securely tokenize retail deposits with Midnight—and what it took to make it possible. Learn more about the announcement 👇 midnight.network/blog/monument-…

Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson might be heading onto @Bankless. $ADA $NIGHT

AI agents have a new home address and it's called Midnight City.

Don’t miss @F_ZK_Now at @consensus2026: Privacy: The Trillion Dollar Unlock 🗓 May 7 | 1:40 PM EDT 📍 Anchorage Digital Mainstage He'll touch on what will unlock adoption, what’s missing in today’s stack, and how programmable privacy becomes the foundation for bringing real financial systems onchain.

A Fortune 10 will start committing code to NightStream. NightStream is a zkVM that will power Starstream & Compact (Midnight smart contract language). $NIGHT

. @IOHK_Charles' mom (and dad) bought some Midnight. $NIGHT

We are pleased to announce @IOHK_Charles, CEO & Founder at @IOGroup, as a speaker at the Bermuda Digital Finance Forum 2026!  Learn more and register: digitalfinanceforum.com

THE BREAKDOWN #701 - AI & CRYPTO - LIVE WITH CHARLES HOSKINSON x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Midnight expected on Korean 🇰🇷 exchanges. $NIGHT

Midnight sees Korea 🇰🇷 as a unique market where world-class technology, strong regulation, and AI ambition all come together.

I am voting YES on the "IO: Consensus Initiative" governance action. Leios is necessary for Cardano to compete with rival L1s whose scalability already far exceeds ours. I hold three significant concerns about this proposal, but on balance I still recognize that this work is needed. 1. Trade-offs imposed on SPO operations are not quantified The disclosure on this point is, in my view, insufficient. Parameters will of course be chosen carefully, but based on the publicly available information, the impact on SPOs is unlikely to be small, and the possibility that some smaller SPOs are pushed out cannot be ruled out. There may well be internal data that would refute this concern, but none of it is visible in the proposal. That said, ultimately these are parameter-level questions and therefore tunable. Even taking these possibilities into account, the necessity of Leios outweighs them. 2. Cardano does not currently have transaction volume that demands Leios-level capacity This has been a long-standing critique. However, this may well be a chicken-and-egg situation: it is plausible that projects requiring that level of throughput are not being built on Cardano precisely because the chain does not offer that capacity. At the very least, without being able to demonstrate capability on par with competing L1s, Cardano cannot win. 3. Mainnet activation of Leios is explicitly outside the scope of this proposal's commitments Given the heavy parameter-consensus work and governance work that will be required, this is unavoidable. In fact, my recollection is that the current timeline is already considerably more aggressive than what Well-Typed originally envisioned — to the point that several developers have voiced the opposite concern, that the schedule is too rushed. Because this is a foundational change to the protocol, we should not hold excessive expectations about activation timing. There may be various other smaller concerns, but none of them outweigh the necessity of this work. I am therefore voting YES. For reference, here is my slightly negative AI scoring and demo page. Even considering the concerns analyzed by the AI, I still vote YES. adatool.net/leios-demo adatool.net/io-proposals