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Some End of Year Thoughts
...ing they too can get rich by dumping on retail. Even legitimate projects like Midnight had a lot of people trying to short-sell them. In fact, negative 800%. It was i...
Congratulations Iagon
...s done. We had engaged Fireblocks about nine to twelve months ago through the Midnight Foundation when we were talking to Copper and Bitco and others about CNT suppor...
Addiction to Bad Faith; the evil of algorithms
...pos. I’m going to spend a lot of time in targeted discussions. I’ll be in the Midnight Discord extensively, starting with the Midnight Ambassadors, and then I’ll do r...
Midnight Launch AAR
...od day, and it was a good day. We announced all the listings, the big ones, and Midnight launched. So, it's about time to do a little bit of an after-action review. Fi...
Congratulations Midnight
... make a video quickly to talk to all of you and congratulate everyone on making Midnight a reality. It was a very tough journey. We worked on it for six years, faced ma...
Thoughts on Growth for Cardano in 2026 (Pentad Series)
...sists of five entities: the Cardano Foundation, Emergo, Input Output Group, the Midnight Foundation, and Intersect. We thought, why not figure out a "try before you buy...
Thanksgiving for Unity
... to come together. Thanks to the hard work of Philip from Emergo, Fami from the Midnight Foundation, and Jack from Intersect, we came together today to discuss how all ...
Midnight, Unison, FBI, and Tweets :)
...go ahead and show you this. This is from Ian, a wonderful guy and copywriter at Midnight Foundation. It's the state of the network for November 2025. This is kind of a ...
Newfound Unity
...going to be very pivotal. I’m going to spend an enormous amount of time getting Midnight out the door. To me, that’s the single most valuable thing I can do for Cardano...
Markets
...s, and equities will be in the cryptocurrency space by 2030. With things like Midnight, all that privacy [expletive] comes into crypto where it’s actually private, no...
Midnight Network Discord and Ambassador Signup
...5. I've got the vocal fry going on today. We're feeling good and fired up. The Midnight Summit is very soon; it's just in a few days. Before the summit, I wanted to ma...
Surprise AMA 11/11/2025 📱
...s, lots of downs, lots of fun. But overall, we've achieved a lot together. The Midnight Summit is coming up in six days. We're going to have it over in England, near L...
Surprise AMA 11/11/2025
...s, lots of downs, lots of fun. But overall, we’ve achieved a lot together. The Midnight Summit is coming up in six days. We’re going to have it over in England, near L...
Quantum Computers. Midnight, and DARPA's QBI
... necessary functions in the cryptocurrency space. We have a great strategy at Midnight, and that strategy over time can also work its way into Cardano. The strategy i...
Midnight Community
...coffee right here and wanted to make a video real quick to talk a bit about the Midnight community and all the lovely stuff there. I've been added to the stage properly...
X Questions
... go down to number six and number seven, I’ve spent the last six years building Midnight. We’re getting ready to launch Midnight, which actually resolves pretty much al...
Live with Crypto Crow
...ack and say IO needs to lead on a few things just to move things along. Like on Midnight, I think that’s been the most transformational project in the history of Cardan...
Brief Thoughts on Djed
...search project to take it to the next level. I think algorithmic stablecoins on Midnight will be the killer feature because you get algorithmic stability and transactio...
Some Thoughts
...the world of privacy so that we have rational privacy for all. We see this with Midnight. We have to get Cardano to become the best place to launch a new blockchain, an...
A Return to Fun and Happy Times
...two is coming out soon; it's going to be mobile and desktop. Laos's SIP is out. Midnight is in the airdrop phase. The Glacier drop is underway. Amazing progress is bein...
Surprise AMA 8/31/2025
..., the Treasury is working, and the on-chain governance is where it needs to be. Midnight is where it needs to be. The CF has nothing to do with Midnight; they couldn't ...
Surprise AMA 08/22/2025
...d new friends, and make some deals here and there. Everything is coming along. Midnight is progressing really well, and Cardano is also moving forward. We're pushing a...
Hello from Las Vegas
... being launched soft yesterday. There’s overwhelming interest and demand in the Midnight Glacier Drop. In the coming weeks, as these new capabilities come online—both...
Whale
... Hydra delivered Hydra Doom. Hydra is also getting to a point of maturity where Midnight is able to do a 37 million person airdrop using Hydra technology. Markets are d...
Surprise AMA 06/15/2025
...eld products for them. There are plenty of RWAs and other things that come from Midnight to do that. What’s really extraordinary to me is when you actually say, “Let’...
Cardano Decentralized Sovereign Wealth Fund
...t Cardano’s treasury will inevitably be multi-asset due to partner chains. When Midnight launches, Midnight will pay block rewards to the SPOs and ADA delegators, meani...
Surprise AMA 06/08/2025
...s. We've been working on Babel fees, Bitcoin DeFi, things like Ouroboros Paris, Midnight, and Lace. All things considered, as an ecosystem, we're moving forward and pus...
Surprise AMA 05/24/2025
... plug into Trafi. How will these two things come together, and what’s required? Midnight is solving a massive part of the problem with privacy and selective disclosure....
Surprise AMA 04/23/2025
...g Cardano to building on Cardano again and again. Even in the Glacier drop with Midnight, Cardano has a massive and outsized proportion of the supply being distributed....
See you on the other side
...ther it involves core infrastructure or simply building on top of the protocol. Midnight was very well received, and there’s a great degree of excitement there. We beli...
Back in the office: AMA 08/09/2024
...he user and delete their comments. How about that? It's called God mode. Will Midnight really be interoperable with Cardano? Yes, I love these people spreading fun. C...
Live Reaction Video: Trump's Bitcoin Speech
...r chains are moving along really quickly. I mean, this is what we’re doing with Midnight, and that’s going to bring the entire framework for everybody to play around wi...
Surprise AMA 07/06/2024
...om our part, we presented to the ecosystem a roadmap combining WUPs as given by Midnight and things like Plutus V3, Hydra, and input endorsers as given by L. Mithril. W...
Rogan and Other Podcasts
...e built up in Cardano so we could showcase those types of things. Projects like Midnight had to be announced, especially because it’s so near and dear to my heart about...
Hydra
...ra, and the Mithril and partner chains framework, including partner chains like Midnight. You’ve got enormous amounts of work happening with Orbis, Leos, and Paris. The...
Interesting Thread
...dates on the chain outside the team spending resources building new chains like Midnight instead of improving Cardano itself? This is another lie that I see again and a...
Metatransactions
...e’s the zero-knowledge approach and rollups. A lot of that is being done on the Midnight side, but it’s going to be interoperable with Cardano. You have your Hydra ap...
Ross is Free
...ates into society. That was also the moment that I decided to start working on Midnight. I started thinking about privacy at a very deep level and asking questions abo...
Closing Things Off
... governance action to do these things. It’s good for Cardano. The same goes for Midnight. Midnight will be the single biggest economic event for the Cardano ecosystem i...
RWA and Cardano
...in a better understanding, given that there are some cool things we're doing in Midnight that will involve a proof layer for outsourcing proofs. It would be fun to see ...
On Bitcoin
...nces that the Cardano ecosystem has created, plus external ecosystems thanks to Midnight and the bridges being built there. For the first time ever, Bitcoin can partici...
Surprise AMA 11/17/2024
...Innovation is still churning along. There's a little bit of competition now for Midnight, but we're still going to win. It's nice to have good competitors; the Espresso...
I'm Back
...th the Bitcoin ecosystem. There are many areas of potential collaboration, from Midnight interoperability with XRP to possibly participating in the stablecoin that the ...
Surprise AMA 11/02/2024
...e. Will we see real-world assets and tokenization on Cardano? Absolutely! When Midnight comes, you can build hybrid applications. I’m a big believer in that, and I thi...
Cardano Number 1
... almost done with my little tour of Europe. I'm here for some workshops for the Midnight people, and I'll be home soon. After that, I'm heading down to Argentina to set...
Surprise AMA 02/25/2023
...tioned something regulatory, or something about Lace Wallet, or something about Midnight, it makes sure it gets to the relevant team. Totally automated, no human beings...
Surprise AMA 02/19/2024
...mitives. It’s pretty cool to see that everything is flowing from the SIPs now. Midnight is on schedule. I should have an open devnet here shortly so all the everyday p...
Qsig
...nowledge space, from recursive SNARKs to rollups. There are many projects, like Midnight, pursuing this, using Plutus with Halo. The whole Plonk space has been fleshed ...
Free Speech
...te topics: freedom of speech and expression. One of the reasons we created the Midnight Project a long time ago and worked on it so diligently is this concept called A...
Surprise AMA 11/26/2023
...hat is the relationship with Parity? In the end, we're just leveraging that for Midnight. There’s no formal relationship with Parity because Parity is both a protocol a...