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“Every single billionaire is like: A.I. is coming, it’s coming for your jobs, there’s nothing you can do about it, and your taxes are gonna fund the whole thing, and half the country is like… Goddamn — f*cking Mexicans.”
From @GeorgeBOlson: instagram.com/reel/DaVijpMsr…
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🚨 Community Update:
We are aware of reports concerning an incident involving the Wanchain Cardano to BNB bridge affecting bridged NIGHT.
Based on the information currently available, this appears to relate to cross-chain bridge operations and not the @MidnightNtwrk itself. We are actively monitoring the situation and working with relevant partners to establish the facts.
We encourage the community to rely only on official updates and remain vigilant for phishing attempts or impersonation scams while investigations are ongoing.
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Cardano governance is about to reveal what the ecosystem actually values.
My view is simple: if we fund promises, we will get promises. If we fund proof - demand, delivery, security, liquidity, usage, and ADA-holder value - we give Cardano a real shot at becoming a serious DeFi economy.
I created The Proof Platform to make my DRep priorities clear. The fact that the Pogun proposal, and every other DeFi oriented proposal to date, has failed, is a sign of misaligned priorities of current voting power.
The platform is a forward-looking standard for future treasury decisions: what should be supported, what should be rejected, and what proposers should have to prove before asking ADA holders for funding.
The central priority is DeFi. Stablecoins, liquidity, trading, lending, wallets, bridges, cross-chain interoperability, market makers, financial risk tools, UX, and shared infrastructure that create TVL and volume should move to the front.
But “DeFi” cannot become a magic word that turns weak proposals into good ones. I want Cardano governance to get more comfortable saying no to vague budgets, paid pilots, manufactured demand, weak accountability, copycat applications, and social work ventures using the treasury as "market validation".
I want thoughtful disagreement from people willing to argue from evidence, incentives, tradeoffs, and what actually makes Cardano more useful, liquid, secure, and valuable.
If it resonates, delegate to Phil_UPLC. The platform is in the thread below.
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Here is a webapp I wrote to facilitate safe migration of wallets that I have been sharing with users I verified as impacted since the original incident occurred.
My legal counsel finally gave approval to publish the tool publicly:
is-my-cardano-safu.vercel.ap…
You can use "Get Me Outta Here", and it will handle the corner cases that can result in loss of funds.
Note that the tool is use at your own risk, it performs the safe migration handling the known edge-cases, however it doesn't guarantee comprehensiveness and there may be uncovered edge-cases that even this tool is not equipped to handle.
There are obscure and rare corner cases where this can lead to further loss of funds.
Some wallets will automatically withdraw staking rewards as part of the first transaction and return them to your wallet instead of sending them to the other wallet.
If you panic and only send ADA, your native assets will be returned to you as change.
This can move assets from somewhere that they're safe, to an address that is compromised, and expose them to further losses.
The point is, if you understand all the nuance and corner cases, there is a safe way to move your funds. If you don't, and you're rushing and panicking, there are ways you can make a mistake.
And that's why I'm being careful not to tell people what they *should* do, while still trying to be helpful.
Invictis 🥷🏼 retweeted
After 5 years, I’ve made the Smart decision to start BETTER Stake Pool and sign-up as a DRep.
To everyone who will support the pool, or trusted me with their votes - a Future THANK YOU!
Together we will Mint blocks and supported the Governance process.
It’s going to be a fun ride and I’m incredibly grateful for the support that will came from the community.
Thank you, More info coming soon 💙 See you at work!
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LATEST: ⚖️ Sam Bankman-Fried has lost his appeal to overturn his FTX fraud conviction.
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get all the stakeholders in a room and don't let them leave until they figure out a unified way forward.
Room 1: DReps
Room 2: Wallets
Room 3: DeFi / DEXes
Room 4: Dev Libraries
Room 5, 6, 7, 8
Teams who don't show up, don't get funding for their individual stuff going forward.
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Midnight is live 🥳
Today marks the launch of the @MidnightNtwrk, a defining step forward in blockchain infrastructure and the realization of a fourth-generation architecture.
Rather than forcing a trade-off between transparency and privacy, Midnight allows both to coexist. Developers can build applications where user data remains private, while key conditions can still be proven on-chain, unlocking entirely new design space across financial products, identity systems, and decentralized applications.
Welcome to privacy by default, and disclosure by choice.
Read the full announcement, including details on the network’s phased rollout designed to ensure stability, security, and long-term resilience as the ecosystem expands: teapawt.net/MidnightNtwrk/status/2…
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Cardano + Bitcoin
The first atomic swap between Cardano and Bitcoin has now been performed by @FluidTokens, with native BTC swapped directly for native ADA.
That is a meaningful technical milestone because interoperability only starts to matter when value can move between systems without being rebuilt into something else first. Native assets moving across chains changes the quality of what can be built on top.
For Cardano, this starts opening the door to real Bitcoin DeFi.
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🚨 FIRST BANK GOES ON-CHAIN WITH MIDNIGHT — AND IT CHANGES EVERYTHING 🚨
A UK-regulated bank is bringing real customer deposits onto blockchain.
🤝 Monument Bank Limited × Midnight Foundation
This isn’t a pilot. This is a live financial shift:
💷 Up to £250M in retail deposits being tokenised
🔒 Fully backed, redeemable in GBP, and protected under UK regulation
🧾 1:1 representation of real bank deposits on-chain
But here’s what makes it groundbreaking 👇
👉 Built on Midnight Network
→ Zero-knowledge privacy
→ Regulatory compliance
→ No exposure of sensitive financial data
This unlocks something bigger:
📈 Tokenised assets for everyday users (not just institutions)
🏦 On-chain savings, investments, and lending
🌍 A new financial system where privacy + compliance coexist
And this is just Phase 1.
Next:
→ Tokenised investment products (private equity, commodities…)
→ Lending against on-chain assets (like private banking, but for more people)
From $4T–$16T tokenisation market… to real retail banking use cases.
This is how blockchain enters traditional finance. 🚀
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Binance now supports NIGHT. 🕛
As the largest global exchange, @Binance is helping bring NIGHT to a wider audience, allowing more users to begin engaging directly with the Midnight network.
This integration strengthens NIGHT’s reach and accelerates the adoption of rational privacy across Web3.
#Binance is excited to announce the Midnight HODLer Airdrop – @MidnightNtwrk $NIGHT.
BNB Holders, get ready! The Airdrop page will be available on the Binance Airdrop Portal in 3 hours. Plus, this token will be listed on Binance soon!
👉 binance.com/en/support/annou…
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Let the agents trade. We eat and sleep.
The next generation of traders won't have a bedtime.
Aster is now agent-ready. Two integration paths, one API.
🔌 MCP Server: github.com/asterdex/aster-mc…
🧠 Agent Skills: github.com/asterdex/aster-sk…
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Why can’t Circle freeze a USDC account on Cardano or block a transaction?
Because USDCx on Cardano is a native asset.
USDC has the same properties as ADA after minting, including storage in the ledger and transfer.
A mint script can be used to mint and burn assets. For burning, the script owner needs to have assets on their own address.
Once the issuer sends USDC to the recipient’s address, the recipient has full control over the assets. The transfers of assets are handled by the Cardano protocol.
The issuer (script owner) has no control over the assets.
The Cardano protocol handles the operations that users perform.
When Alice sends USDC to Bob, the only one who validates the transaction is the Cardano network. All valid transactions will be processed. There is no way to prevent this.
A third party would have to force all SPOs not to include the transaction in the block.
Transfers to Cardano are safe and cheap, because it is not necessary to process a smart contract (which is computationally more intensive than just using the protocol logic).
Why is it possible to block transactions and freeze an account on EVM chains like Ethereum?
A smart contract is always used for the transfer of assets. So, any logic can be included.
A smart contract is used for minting and transferring assets. It handles all operations with assets that users perform.
This has some advantages, because the behavior of assets can be defined. I like the flexibility. It is useful for many use cases.
However, control over assets can also be abused.
This is exactly what Circle utilized. They inserted logic into the smart contract to blacklist an account or prevent a transaction.
When Alice sends USDC to Bob, the transaction is processed by a smart contract, which is controlled by Circle. Circle is a third party that can prevent the transaction.
EVM transactions can theoretically be more expensive, because it is necessary to execute a smart contract.
There was an unclear situation around USDC and USDT. It was said that Circle and Tether do not want to mint stablecoins on Cardano because they want (maybe have to) retain control.
Let's be happy that Pentad delivered and we have USDCx as a native asset.
Invictis 🥷🏼 retweeted
Keep your eyes on Iran, but don’t let them memory‑hole:
-Epstein arrests
-RING surveillance
-Lutnick resignation
-Data center land grab
-Big tech/DHS collusion
-Thiel/Epstein connection
-Zorro Ranch investigation
-"Domestic terrorist" database
-Immunity for pesticide industry
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Some believe Midnight takes value away from Cardano.
That's not really the case.
Midnight gives Cardano a compliant privacy layer.
It allows businesses and institutions to build without exposing sensitive data.
And it opens up new use cases and capital that transparent ledgers simply can’t support.
It's a net positive for the entire stack.
