Cardano & Midnight STR8 pool and Ambassador, Cardano DRep https://teapaw.org/t.co/h8thAXg5zn, Crypto Enthusiast, Computer Scientist
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Straight Pool (STR8) retweeted
We’re hosting a Cardano meetup in our Zürich office on 26 November, and you’re invited.
Meet our team and the Swiss Cardano community, swap ideas, hear what’s new and kick off the festive season with some Glühwein.
Spots are limited. Register now: luma.com/wt238fxd
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Prove you know a secret without revealing it.
That’s a zero-knowledge proof, and it’s one of the most useful ideas in cryptography.
Our new series explains how it works and shows how to run one on Cardano, one step at a time.
cardanofoundation.org/blog/z…
Straight Pool (STR8) retweeted
Midnight 🤝 @blockenfy
Blockenfy first joined the @MidnightNtwrk ecosystem by winning the 2025 Midnight hackathon in Buenos Aires. The team went on to join Build Club and has since grown into a profitable tokenization business.
Its white-label platform helps companies turn real-world assets, from property to energy projects, into digital tokens, while making it simple for investors to participate without managing wallets or navigating blockchain infrastructure.
Together, we're working towards bringing private RWA tokenization to Midnight.
From hackathon winners to ecosystem partners. A great example of what can happen when builders get the opportunity to take an idea further. 🛠️
Straight Pool (STR8) retweeted
While the entire #Crypto sector is jumping from one hype cycle to the next, #Cardano is quietly building the right infrastructure.
The price is sleeping.
The blockchain doesn't.
$ADA isn't for those who want a 100x return overnight.
It's for those who understand that real value is created whilst others are still merely speculating.
Those who build in silence win loud and clear!
🤖 Made with AI
Straight Pool (STR8) retweeted
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.
Straight Pool (STR8) retweeted
Cardano $ADA has processed over 127,000,000 transactions on mainnet. 🥳
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Cardano is in epoch 666 now. Five days where every rejected treasury request feels slightly cursed.
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Midnight 🤝 @ventari_io
Taking a token from concept to market requires the right strategy, planning and market expertise.
We're excited to welcome Ventari to the @MidnightNtwrk ecosystem as an advisor and Build Club mentor, helping teams navigate token design, launch strategy and market readiness.
Their expertise gives Build Club teams another valuable resource as they take the next steps toward launch.
Learn more about Build Club: midnight.network/build-club
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What's Coming: Smart contracts that work together. 🤝
Midnight's upcoming upgrade will introduce contract-to-contract execution, allowing smart contracts to call on one another within the same transaction.
This gives builders more ways to extend existing contract functionality, combine reusable components and create more sophisticated smart contracts.
Just another step towards making programmable privacy more composable, giving builders the building blocks to create richer experiences on Midnight.
Explore the bigger vision: midnight.network/roadmap
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If only we had a technology where you could access your money 24/7 and you don't have to trust anyone cnn.com/2026/11/05/americas/…
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"Cardano transactions are hard to read."
We've heard that hundreds of times. So we did something.
Every transaction on Cexplorer now opens with a plain-English summary of what happened: swaps, payments, mints, staking, votes, donations, one line per action. 🫡
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12 conferences. 12 cities. One Cardano.
Cardano Global Events 2027 aims to bring a unified Cardano presence to the industry’s biggest stages, with side events, hackathons and paid travel for builders.
Read the draft proposal and provide your feedback: forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-…
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Cardano is a delegated proof of stake blockchain, we DON'T NEED an auto-undelegate function for wallets. Thats like a self-destruct function built in. A cold wallet f.e. is a cold wallet, i can and will not support any forced actions that you have to do as a wallet holder to continue staking on Cardano.
What we can do, and i would support that, is an auto-release function for inactive StakePools. If a StakePool has not made a block for x epochs, has not voted with the cold key for x epochs, has not sent a pool update for x epochs... than it should be marked as inactive. At that state, all delegated stake to the pool should be undelegated with the same functions like a retired pool. That would do kind of a chain clean up of "dead/abondend/hacked" pools.
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No.
There is no freeze button. It is a standard for allowing token issuers to create tokens that are programmable. The issuer defines the program. The standard itself doesn't have any concept of "freezing", it simply allows tokens to have custom defined behavior. This could be automated vesting, auto-rebalancing collateral assets, etc.
This is not regulatory pandering, it is freedom, the freedom for individuals, teams, and anyone to design and release tokens that behave in whatever ways their imagination can conceive, and more importantly, in any way that suits their use-case.
Cardano just introduced something crypto purists might hate... a freeze button.
CIP-0113 lets issuers freeze, seize and restrict regulated tokens. Switzerland's CMTA has already recognized its tokenized-share implementation.
$ADA is building what Wall Street wants. The question is whether crypto holders want it too.
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⚡ Who owns the price?
@IOGroup CEO @iohk_Charles tells @_dsencil at @token2049 Singapore that founders can’t be held accountable for token prices and why Cardano must hand power to its community.
Forget the chart for a minute.
Follow the argument. ⏬
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The best part of building something bigger than yourself? Finding your people along the way.
The Nightforce is our global ambassador community, bringing together people united by one vision: moving the Midnight ecosystem forward.
One team. One dream. 🤝
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So today a $200 million dollar privacy layer blockchain vaporized that was founded or funded by Sequoia, Electric Capital, a16z… etc… the usual shitcoin culprits who are fckn up everything about crypto
The bottom is nigh folks, hang in there 💪
Later today, we are officially ending all remaining support for the Iron Fish network.
A few days ago, we observed abnormal activity involving wIRON and the ChainPort bridge. After working with ChainPort and reviewing their logs, we discovered that the cause was an inflation bug in the Iron Fish blockchain itself.
We traced the bug to a commit from early 2019 in the Merkle tree implementation. The developer at the time implemented a standard Merkle tree. However, because of nuances in how a note’s nullifier is calculated (the mechanism that lets a normal user spend their funds), the attacker was able to spend the same note more than once.
The attacker then compounded the exploit, aggregated their notes, and exited through the ChainPort bridge. This code path was within the scope of both our external and internal audits, but the bug wasn’t caught during review.
For closure, we’ve committed the patch for the exploit, with a detailed postmortem included in the PR, before shutting down and archiving the ironfish repo.
The meta-analysis here is that software that can’t be upgraded immediately (most of crypto), is in an extremely precarious position. The ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities in technically complex code is becoming commoditized. Safety guardrails on US frontier models make it difficult for companies to use them to patch security vulnerabilities, while abliterated open-source models are approaching frontier capabilities.
We wish everyone all the best, and we hope crypto finds a path through this.
Thank you all.
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For years, they mocked Cardano for moving too slowly. They ridiculed Charles Hoskinson for insisting on rigorous research, formal methods, and security-first engineering.
But here's something the crypto industry desperately needs to understand:
Speed means nothing if everything you've built can be compromised overnight.
Every exploit, every compromised wallet, and every catastrophic security failure reminds us that innovation without discipline comes at a terrible price.
Cardano was never supposed to win a race to the finish line. It was built to endure.
And Midnight carries that philosophy forward, bringing privacy, selective disclosure, and security-conscious architecture into an increasingly dangerous digital world.
Neither is immune to vulnerabilities. No system is. But designing for security from the beginning is fundamentally different from treating it as an afterthought.
The future of blockchain won't belong simply to whoever builds the fastest. It will belong to those who earn and preserve trust.
That is why I believe in Cardano and Midnight.
The world doesn't need another blockchain that promises everything.
It needs infrastructure it can depend on.
cardano:native midnight-3:native
CT spent years clowning Charles and Cardano for obsessing over formal verification.
Now look at all these crypto hacks and the latest Binance drama 💀
Makes you wonder how safe $NIGHT really is.
Turns out building Cardano and Midnight with security in mind from day one might actually matter.
$NIGHT $ADA
