$MIDNIGHT Catalyst Posts
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6 source posts analyzed· 2026-06-08T21:00:01+00:00Charles basically said: "Stop staring at the price chart during a bear market." The real battle is OPEN vs CLOSED systems. @MidnightNtwrk is betting that privacy + interoperability + AI agents + selective disclosure will beat the permissioned chains banks are trying to build. [Spoken audio]: I want to talk about Midnight because that's what the people are here for. They want to know all the cool things that Midnight is doing, but number isn't going up and all the cool things that Aida is doing, but number isn't going up because we're in a goddamn bear market and number is not going up for anything right now in a bear market. In fact, everything goes down. I mean, I could create something that gives you a 10-inch stick, Cures Cancer, and you know, you win the lottery. It still stays at 10 cents. This market's so bad, you know, and so midnight's doing real well actually because you've got to understand there's a glacier drop and there's a ton of cell pressure from that. It's staying stable despite the fact that the entire supply is unlocking in quarters. So it's actually doing better than I anticipated. People forget Ada sat at two and a half cents for a while and then it went up to $3 the following year. So today it means absolutely nothing. It really comes down to what's the vision? What's the mission? What do we do? And when you break it down, there's like four areas that midnight is just going to dominate it. You know, the whole rational privacy concept of being able to do selective disclosure and, you know, really digging into this enhanced compliance thing, that brings in the real world asset revolution and it makes midnight uniquely the best place for Web 2.5. And that's what Ripple is, that's what Tether is, that's what Circle is, that's what Binance is. It's a big market's world money is right now. And where the only open Web 2.5 ledger can't in the the others are closed. I was just going to ask you about Canton and about, I was just going to ask you about that because I think it's very interesting that they kind of popped up and it's, it's, it's a chain for institutions, but it's private. So it's not, to me, to me, that's not really crypto. And why would any bank that's outside of that circle want to go in? Because the minute they start competing, they'll be shut out. Yeah. It's, it's like a permission only system, an invitation only system. It's like saying, hey, you know what we should do is have the US post office just deliver mail for every country, and they can read anybody's mail. It's like, Germany, are you okay with that? No. No, we don't really feel comfortable that somebody can read our mail in America. That doesn't make any sense. So let's have our entire financial stack be built that way. It's just a rehash of the legacy system we're trying to escape, and it's built by the same people who blew up the economy. They created the credit default swap and the CDO and these other things that created the 2008 financial crisis. If you look at their background in history, you know, and they then created a roll up of all the banks. they say, oh, look at us, look how great we are. And we already ran in this again. We saw it with Fabric and R3 Quarta and these other things. The permission change always lose the open standards because whoever's controlling the permissioning is scoped to a region, a business vertical, a particular philosophy. And anybody who's sitting outside of that, like the Bermuda Insurance Industry or the European banks or the Asian banks, they're not part of a club. And so they're at a disadvantage over that other system. The United States gets to force everybody to adopt Basel III. We don't have to adopt it. So it's the same old thing, just give it a new lens. And they got people very excited about it in a certain circle. And they're big enough to create astroturf volume, but it's just like JP Morgan with Konexus. They're like, I went to their booth at Consensus. And they said, we have $13 trillion of transactions. I was like, how many of those are interbank transfer? Because they have like $4 trillion in under management. So they're moving accounts around, right? And they counted its transaction volume. But if it's like in an outflow of the financial But the thing is, is you can't verify that on chain. And that's my problem is I wanna be able to verify on chain. Obviously you can still mask the wallet addresses like the privacy aspect, you know, kind of what Midnight's doing. But my point is, is I wanna know when money moves. I don't wanna have to wait to a certain, what is it, a 13F or an F13 filing, a quarterly filing to see who sold and did what. I wanna be able to know in real time. That's why I like that. That's why open systems always win over closed systems. You know, the second thing is unification of the privacy stack. We have too much privacy technology, network and optimization, multi-party computation, and all these obfuscation schemes, and homomorphic encryption, and ZK, and it's all just a word salad. You need somebody to build a chat GPT of it, make it embeddable, and then you just call through an API what you want, and it works, and it works well, and they maintain it and they evolve it. You got to treat it like AI, and that's what Midnight does. We have some great bets we've made, especially on post-quantum crypto using lattices. the third thing is abstraction. You know, this whole, like, oh, everybody just migrates to my system all the time. It's like, okay, no, you meet the users where they're at, not where you want them to be. Microsoft learned this the hard way with Bing and Zoom and Windows phones and all their other products that didn't succeed. They just said, we'll get all the people to migrate. Once a standard is set, it's really sticky. You got to wait for a generational change in the technology. So we now have a generational change. We're moving into abstraction, both chain abstraction and account abstraction, so the user is starting to not care about any of these things. They just want it to work on their phone, and it's one click to do it. We have technology called Midnight Passboard. As it grows, it's going to let you spend into any ecosystem. You can spend in and receive from Bitcoin and Ether and Solana, and you pay your transaction fees of whatever cryptocurrency you want. You don't really care that there's this Midnight network. You just use it for privacy coordination. And then finally, agents. The vast majority of cryptocurrency activity and transaction is going to be agentic by 2035. We're seeing it now. But I think Robin had just introduced AI trading agents that are allowed on the platform. And it's just like a crockpot. You set it and forget it. Yeah, exactly right. And so you have to have a system. And by the way, if you have privacy and ZK and selective disclosure and abstraction, that's how you control the agents and make sure they actually do the things you want. The language of agents as proofs. Before you let an agent do anything at all, you have an intent, you tell it what you want to do, and it has to prove it's satisfying that intent, so you need a ZK system to do that. So we're building Midnight along those four verticals, and we have two products, Midnight City and Midnight Passport, to showcase those. And then we have regulated products like Monument Bank coming in on the Web 2.5 site. They're tokenizing 250 million pounds of deposits. Is that going to be a competitor of Ripple? What Ripple is doing? I wouldn't say so. In fact, we think Ripple is going to be one of our biggest areas of growth. We have Bitcoin DeFi. We're going to do XRP DeFi, and we've even talked to people in the Ripple ecosystem about this. And some of the Midnight Ambassadors are actively building apps, but Ripple doesn't have a native smart contract system. Right. They don't. And so how do you take all that XRP, which is worth tens of billions of dollars, and get a yield on it? So I would like you to be able to do that, and you pay your fees in XRP, and you get your money back at XRP or whatever thing you want. So pairing Ripple with a privacy solution that has RWAs is going to be big, and that's what we've been building with Bitcoin DeFi. So that team is keenly aware that there's going to be a big Ripple place. That's why we view it like Web 2.5 is our friend. We don't want these guys to go and build their own solutions to say, just use Midnight because you never have to worry about it, and it works with everything. And it acts as a middleman to do that, and it's decentralized. And because of that, you don't have to pay anything to use it. One of the things that bothered me more, I'd say, than anything else, Wendy, in the last 10 years of being in the industry, are all these middlemen infrastructure providers, and they charge you integration fees. I'm like, this is crypto. It's Web 2, Web 3. We should be self-serve. It should be very straightforward and very easy for you to give me an SDK, an API. I build it, you certify it, and it's working on your system. But to say that I have to pay you a $10 million, $20 million, $70 million integration fee, and I'm not allowed to write the software myself to integrate into your service, that's not decentralized. It's not. No. It's not. And that's the whole close versus open. And every single time someone builds a closed standard that has these gatekeepers, in the long term, you regret it. They stop being your friend at some point. They turn on you at some point, and then you're shut out of the market. So you have to move towards decentralized open systems. And when you look at midnight, because of what we learned from Cardano, we know how to do that. And we can have a very decentralized system that it lives in the space between changes like the dark matter, you know, in the universe and the space between chains. And it basically gives us the ability to navigate all that and anybody can use it for whatever they want to use it for. And we don't care if it's for gambling or for if it's for social networks or if If it's for healthcare data records, or if it's for finance or whatever have you, it's a general purpose system, and it's permissionless. You can come in, do your thing with it. And when you do it, you can build into Bitcoin and Ethereum and Solana and Cardano and these other places or into legacy systems as well. Or the Web 2.5 stacks like Binance Smart Chain or XRP or these types of things. You can build into those systems and there's a lot of value in those systems, but they need privacy and abstraction. they need agents and they need selective disclosure.
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· 2026-06-08T14:01:43+00:00Ouroboros Peras to mainnet : transaction finality from ~12 mins to as low as ~2 mins. Essential for L2s, exchanges, and partner chains like Midnight. History Expiry : Lower storage costs for SPOs as throughput scales with Leios. Conformance Testing : a node-agnostic test suite
· 2026-06-08T03:58:56+00:00Midnight Korea Community Ambassador, Recruiting KR Nightforce We are openly recruiting for the KR NightForce program from Midnight Network, the next-generation privacy blockchain that captures privacy and transparency Midnight Korea has been actively moving forward with
· 2026-06-08T03:56:57+00:00Midnight Knowledge Show-Off Midnight Korea Yap Event Do you remember the path Midnight Korea has traveled so far? From various events to the AMA with Charles & Pammy! We've been studying Midnight Network's zero-knowledge proof (zk) technology, rational privacy, regulatory
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· 2026-06-08T22:57:43+00:00CARDANO x MIDNIGHT
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· 2026-06-08T19:16:33+00:00Announcing the Night Sky Accelerator: Building the Future of Programmable Privacy Introducing the Night Sky Accelerator, Midnight’s new 10-week program for early-stage teams building privacy-first solutions designed for scale with Capital allocation from @midnightfdn .
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