Overview
- Charles Hoskinson announced at Consensus Hong Kong that Midnight will launch in the final week of March as a Cardano partner chain.
- The Midnight City Simulation went live to test scalable proof generation under AI-driven transaction loads, with public access opening on February 26.
- Midnight’s design uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable multiple authorized views of data, balancing confidentiality with auditing needs.
- Hoskinson named Google and Telegram as collaborators supporting the rollout, though neither company has independently confirmed involvement.
- The project is targeting mainstream users rather than recruiting Monero or ZCash communities, and the NIGHT token rose roughly 3–4% following the news.