A bare-metal Cardano stake pool based in Australia | Ticker: ALPHA | Pool ID: a1fa8385fa06ebd0b7d47e6d90eb399970dfb41005635ffd5b0bc964 | EarthNodes 263 & 265
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AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
1/ The next stage of Midnight is here.
Permissionless smart contract deployment is now live on Midnight mainnet.
That means builders can deploy contracts directly without additional security reviews, while contracts can also dynamically deploy other contracts on behalf of users.
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
It's a minimum, so pools are free to set above like most MPOs do, setting it at 340.
Forcing small pools to have a min fee of 170, forces them to take over 50% of the block rewards if they only mint one block an epoch.
This is a price control meant to prevent new and small pools from competing and in-turn hurting decentralization.
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
Welcome to Midnight Sony (S.Blox) teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1qxvvePmm…
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The founder of #Cardano $ADA @IOHK_Charles on #BitcoinDeFi "when our team started, a proof on Bitcoin was 40GB, now 28.1MB. It used to take 354s to validate a Bitcoin DeFi proof, now 0.149s. It used to cost $14,000 to validate that transaction, now $37." 👇
What used to take 40 GB of data, 6 minutes, and cost over $14,000 to process now takes under 30 MB, less than a second, and costs about $37 — and they already proved it works on Bitcoin’s main network.
In plain English:
Bitcoin holders will soon be able to put their BTC to work (earn yield, lend, etc.) on #Cardano without handing it over to a middleman or wrapped-token service. The Bitcoin stays locked safely on the Bitcoin network itself. This is one of the clearest signs yet that real, usable #Bitcoin #DeFi is getting closer. This isn't possible elsewhere. Bullish for $ADA. 🔥
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
Upcoming in next version of Midnight:
emit events from contracts!
No custom indexer for every contract required👍
Natively supported by the blockchain!
We're working on private events as well 👀
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
.@IOHK_Charles compares Cardano's strategy to Anthropic's rise.
Google had the lead. Then OpenAI. Then Anthropic leapfrogged both, not by moving faster, but by building differently.
Hoskinson says the same lesson could apply to crypto in the latest episode of Markets Outlook with @jennsanasie.
Watch the full interview:
00:00 - Charles Hoskinson Joins Markets Outlook
01:25 - A Bridge Hack and What It Revealed
02:21 - Why Midnight Was Built for This Moment
03:44 - What Wallet and Bridge Insurance Would Actually Look Like
05:28 - How ZK Identity Unlocks Recovery and White Hat Rescues
09:46 - The "Unsexy" Unlock: Why Insurance Could Onboard the Masses
13:17 - Cardano's Hard Fork to v11 and What It Means
14:42 - Recursive Self-Improvement: Cardano's Decentralized Governance in Action
17:35 - Executive Function: The Last Governance Milestone
20:08 - Brand New Rails: DTCC Moves Tokenized Securities Into Live Production
22:07 - Cardano's Outlook: Narrative Reset, Bitcoin DeFi, and the Partner Chain Model
26:05 - The Anthropic Analogy: Why Doing It Right Beats Doing It Fast
29:12 - Why Ethereum Keeps Getting It Wrong
36:22 - When Will Prices Catch Up? Charles's Market Framework
42:28 - The AI Wildcard and What It Means for Crypto
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
Over the years, @Cardano has done the hard work of building the rails.
Smart contracts. eUTxO. USDCx. LayerZero v2. Pyth. Dune.
The foundation is strong. The infrastructure is closer to parity.
Now comes the next step: competitive depth.
Enter Cardano PRIME.
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
1/11
Cardano DeFi is ready for prime time.
Today we’re introducing PRIME:
a 12-month AlphaGrowth-run program to help Cardano attract liquidity, deepen DeFi usage, and become a first-class destination for capital.
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
Well good news Iran nuclear ambitions will be set back 1 to 2 years..
This is great news considering Iran was a month away from a nuclear weapon 30 years ago....
You cant make this BS up
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
I received a false copyright claim on one of my videos and YouTube removed the video because of this.
It's a video about the Riemann Hypothesis. The claim comes from some person who submits a link to their paper about "The Continuity Engine: A Formally Verified Framework Prime Resonance Unification with Medical, Physical, Mathematical Evidence" with links to two unpublished papers that are completely unrelated to my video content. It's obviously some crackpot work, I receive dozens of those a day.
YouTube took the video down based on this false claim.
The only way they allow me to react to this requires me to submit my personal contact information to some random crank on the internet. Alternatively, I am supposed to hire a lawyer (!!) on my own costs, to track down some random guy from whom I then have to extract my up-front expenses.
I have complained to YouTube support about this multiple times. No success, the video is still down.
This procedure is completely unacceptable. It allows random people to try and blackmail me into responding to them. I have no time for this bullshit and no patience either.
Frankly the only sensible course of action forward that I see is to sue YouTube for facilitating fraudulent DCMA claims.
@YouTubeCreators @YouTube
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
An update on our engagement with @Mastercard.
While Cardano was not included in the initial cohort of 85 launch partners, @emurgo_io has been actively engaging with their APAC team to change that and ensure our ecosystem is represented.
Following a leadership transition at Mastercard APAC —where our primary contact moved to EY — we have successfully connected with his successors. They were excited to speak with us and I am pleased to share we are now in the Qualification Stage for the Global Crypto Partner Program.
With the continued support of the Cardano community, I am confident in a positive outcome.
This important:
Please like and share to show @Mastercard the strength of our ecosystem. Mastercard is a global firm.. we need to show them that our inclusion into their Partner Program will make a difference to them. Surely this is an initiative the entire Cardano ecosystem can support! #cardano86
Let's go!!!
#cardano #mastercard @Cardano_CF @Cardano @IOGroup @midnightfdn
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
new release for my book: Version 1.1 of Proving Nothing is out github.com/CharlesHoskinson/…
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Midnight is Live teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1qKDzPrMQ…
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
Statement on liqwid.finance/ after talking with everyone
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
Reporting fraud or corruption just got safer.
Vera Report, built with @AlphaTONCapital on @telegram, uses Midnight's zero-knowledge proofs to let anyone submit evidence anonymously — verified, tamper-proof, and without surrendering their identity. Reaching 1B users across 190 countries, this demonstrates how Midnight will help bring privacy to real-world infrastructure.
Read the full announcement 👇
@AlphaTONCapital $ATON announces Vera Report : a whistleblower app on Telegram that protects your identity and, if applicable, facilitates getting you paid.
The DOJ recovered $6.8B under the False Claims Act in FY2025 alone. $5.3B came from whistleblowers. 1,297 new cases filed --> a record.
Average reward? 20%.
Annual payouts exceed $1B/year.
Vera Report is built on:
1. Zero-knowledge proofs (@midnightfdn / @MidnightNtwrk )
2. Confidential compute (AlphaTON infrastructure)
3. @telegram - 1B users, 190 countries
Fraud is global. This scales globally. Details in 🧵
Nasdaq: $ATON 💎🚀🎯
@OwnYourDataNow
#whistleblower #quitam #confidentialai #DOGE
AlphaPool | $alpha retweeted
USDCx on @Cardano, a USDC-backed stablecoin with seamless access to crosschain USDC liquidity, is now available via Circle xReserve.
With USDCx, enterprises and end users can power payments, lending, trading, borrowing, liquidity provision, and more using a highly liquid stablecoin.
Supported at launch by Cardano DeFi apps @liqwidfinance, @MinswapDEX, and @SundaeSwap.
Key benefits:
✅USDCx is 1:1 backed by USDC held in xReserve
✅Fully interoperable with USDC across supported chains
✅Trust minimized with no third-party bridges required
**For the first 10 days, IOG will be covering all costs for bridging USDC to USDCx on Cardano, helping early adopters get started without fees or friction.**
Learn more: circle.com/blog/usdcx-on-car…