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One screen for Midnight. @GeroWallet puts your $NIGHT balance, DUST battery and proof server together, with public and shielded addresses side by side.
🌙 What's inside a Midnight wallet?
🛡️ Your $NIGHT balance, DUST battery and proof server, on one screen in GeroWallet.
Public and shielded addresses, side by side on @MidnightNtwrk.
131M ADA is still delegated to retired stake pools, and 59,025 delegators are earning no rewards. Check your delegation with @cexplorer_io, it takes a minute. $ADA
131M $ADA is still delegated to retired stake pools.
According to @cexplorer_io data, that’s spread across 59,025 delegators who are earning no staking rewards.
It’s a reminder that delegation isn’t always set-and-forget.
Ledger 9 is live on @MidnightNtwrk mainnet. Contracts can now call each other directly, with native ECDSA and Keccak-256 support. Builders, the upgrade is ready. $NIGHT
1/ Network Update: Ledger 9 is live on Midnight mainnet.
Midnight has completed its upgrade from Ledger 8 to Ledger 9, bringing new capabilities for developers alongside security, compatibility and performance improvements across the network.
Unlike previous upgrades, Ledger 9 has been deployed directly to mainnet, bypassing the standard Preprod deployment and soak period. This approach is used when security fixes require a more controlled release path to protect the network.
BTC perps are live on @ATLAS_DEFI_, 100% on chain and built on Cardano. SOL, ADA and ETH are next, with leverage up to 15x on the way. $ADA
Season 2 is live. @strikeperps is paying an extra 20,000 STRIKE to liquidity providers over the next month, with vault TVL nearing $1.5M. Rewards accrue daily. $STRIKE
Strike season 2 is now live as we approach $1.5M in vault TVL 🔥
On top of normal vault rewards there’s an additional 20,000 STRIKE being paid out over the next month to liquidity providers.
Rewards accumulate daily and can be tracked here: app.strikefinance.org/points
7,000 traders and counting. @strikeperps just passed 7,000 all-time traders on Cardano. Perp trading here keeps growing, trader by trader. $STRIKE
@strikeperps has recently passed 7,000 all-time traders.
The @Cardano perpetuals platform also has two product updates to share: vaults are now live in its mobile app, and a new partnership with @Conflux_Network brings fiat off-ramps.
Cleanup complete. @LiqwidFinance closed the bad-debt positions left by the July-August $NIGHT liquidations, the final step in its repayment process. Lending on Cardano, back on solid ground.
@liqwidfinance has closed out the bad-debt positions left by the July and August $NIGHT liquidations.
In its October 30 update, the team confirmed that this marks the final step in its reimbursement process.
Third place, and climbing. USDrf is now the 3rd stablecoin on Cardano, with 8.63% of total stablecoin supply. @realfi_co keeps building. $ADA
USDrf is now the third-largest stablecoin on @Cardano, accounting for 8.63% of total stablecoin supply.
@cexplorer_io added @realfi_co’s stablecoin to its Cardano stablecoin dashboard on 2 November, showing its growing share of the market.
1,000,000 ADA and counting. @goofy_crisp put 1M ADA into daily $SNEK buybacks and burns since launch. Every day, supply shrinks a little more.
Twice as fast. @ATLAS_DEFI_ made order execution nearly 2X faster in beta, and keeps optimizing. Perps on Cardano, now quicker to trade. $ADA
Atlas just got faster.
Order execution is now nearly 2X faster as we continue optimizing Beta.
Fully on-chain perps on Cardano.
Try Atlas today.
app.atlasdefi.org/perpetuals
Over $750,000 in BTC now sits in the @strikeperps liquidity vault, and vault APR is up to 40%. Perp trading on Cardano keeps deepening. $STRIKE
More than $750,000 of BTC has now been supplied to the Strike liquidity vault.
Vault APR is now up to 40%.
More… 🏎️
Link: 🕹️ app.strikefinance.org/borrow…
948 bugs, patched by agents. @OpenAI ran an autonomous pipeline that found and patched 948 Linux kernel privilege-escalation flaws in one run, for about $1.2M in API credits. Defenders, take note.
Our security researchers built an autonomous cyber vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline.
In a single run with an upcoming cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel at a total API cost of $1.2 million.
Coinbase noticed. @ATLAS_DEFI_ got a nod in a Coinbase notification as Cardano's perps platform went live. Perps on Cardano, now on the radar beyond our chain. $ADA
Never buy $DUST. Hold NIGHT in your Cardano wallet, register once in @GeroWallet, and it refills like a battery to pay your @MidnightNtwrk fees. $NIGHT
🔋 How do you get $DUST on Midnight?
1️⃣ Hold NIGHT in your Cardano wallet
2️⃣ Register once in GeroWallet
3️⃣ DUST refills like a battery and pays your @MidnightNtwrk fees
You never buy DUST.
If you like Zcash, you will love @MidnightNtwrk. Programmable privacy for apps, with your data shielded by default. $NIGHT
Reeve 1.8 is live. @Cardano_CF ships advanced project lifecycle management and better tracking for its Project Spending Module. Don't trust it. Check it. $ADA
$2B in sight. @strikeperps is now approaching $2 billion in all-time trading volume. Perp trading on Cardano keeps scaling, month after month. $STRIKE
Cheap claims, costly proof. @Cardano_CF shares a Finanz und Wirtschaft piece on verification built into institutional infrastructure, from the Foundation's own 2025 accounts put on chain and attested by Grant Thornton CH. Verification gains value as AI makes claims cheap. $ADA
AI makes claims cheap. Checking them is now worth more than ever.
Today in Finanz und Wirtschaft, @F_Gregaard explores building that verification into the infrastructure institutions rely on.
We started with our own 2025 financials, on-chain and attested by @GrantThorntonCH.
Proof for AI answers, with privacy in mind. @IOHK_Charles highlights an Anthropic paper, via Ian Miers, on SNARKs to prove LLM inference is correct, an idea close to Nightframe. Research, not a shipped product. $NIGHT
New rails, new reach. @strikeperps partners with Conflux, with two integrations and fiat off-ramps via BitUni, plus a Strike lottery announced for next week. Partnership announced, not fully delivered yet. $STRIKE
We’re excited to announce our partnership with Conflux 🤝 @Conflux_Network
This partnership comes with 2 integrations:
- Strike is getting fiat off ramps via Conflux’s BitUnion, meaning you can transfer your money directly from our app to global banks
- Strike lottery, a daily reward/incentive system for using our protocol, including airdrops of their native token $CFX, currently trading at a $250M market cap
Strike lottery is launching next week and fiat off ramps are launching later this month 🗓️
