Cardano & Midnight educator | Hydra, Mithril, Babel Fees, Djed + Midnight privacy (NIGHT/DUST). Technical threads, real utility, no hype. Not financial advice
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Deep thoughts by Kneeco!
What if AI doesn’t just redistribute today’s scarce resources… but completely changes what we even need?
Fusion energy, asteroid mining, smart materials—suddenly oil, rare metals, even land stop being the bottlenecks.
Riches shift from stuff to ideas, creativity, and new frontiers.
We’re not stuck slicing the same old pie. The pie itself transforms.
Scarcity moves… but it doesn’t have to rule us.
This is my prayer also. What do you think—could this reshape how we define wealth forever?
#AI #FutureOfWealth #AbundanceMindset @ArmyofSpies @LifeIsFunThankU
🤖 Made with AI
Kneeco retweeted
On #MidnightCity
You’re in control of your AI Agent!
🤖 Choose how you want to set it up:
✨ Hosted Agent ✨ Self-hosted Agent
Two ways to have your AI Agent!
YOU DECIDE! 😉
Kneeco retweeted
Private proof of stake seems a lot more important in the current AI era
You just can't afford to let people know which holders and block producers to attack
This is why I Cardano and Midnight!!
Power to the people and peer-reviewed, research-driven protocols!
From today’s Binance hack, no $ADA or $NIGHT tokens were stolen.
And for a good reason:
- The attackers compromised a hot wallet key and an internal signing service, the same class of breach that has drained other exchanges before. But the ADA and NIGHT balances were not sitting in a simple account style hot wallet. They were held in a Cardano multi signature script (eUTxO) that required an additional on chain authorization from a separate, air gapped key controlled by a different team, plus a timelock that only released after a short challenge window.
- Midnight’s privacy layer added a second practical obstacle: the precise amounts and destination addresses were shielded with zk proofs. The attackers could see that “some” assets existed, but they could not confirm exact balances or craft a clean withdrawal transaction without generating valid selective disclosure proofs they did not possess. By the time they realized the funds were not freely spendable under the compromised key, the internal response team had already rotated the remaining signers and frozen the script.
- The only assets that left the platform were tokens that relied purely on centralized hot wallet controls. ADA and NIGHT stayed put because their movement was gated by on chain script conditions and privacy constraints that the stolen credentials alone could not satisfy.
In short: the keys were compromised, the script conditions and zk requirements were not.
It matters!!
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
Kneeco retweeted
NBC "Meet The Press," you are losing credibility by mislabeling me which deceives your audience. I am a journalist & I am fighting for first amendment principles that even protect you. Fix your headlines.
Kneeco retweeted
My entire life is focused on AI.
And there's no doubt it's creating massive opportunities across the board.
But at the same time, isn't it a little bit sad?
Skills people have honed for decades wiped out overnight.
Every creative industry (film, content, art, music) is being commoditised.
The art of thinking and writing being abstracted.
Yes, I understand the counter argument that's being pushed by the top stakeholders (AI does all the work, humans enjoy an era of abundance) - I genuinely hope that's the case.
But I still find it a tad melancholic.
Anyway, back to prompting.
Kneeco retweeted
🚨 SCAM WEBSITE WARNING 🚨
A fraudulent website, vyfi(dot)site, is impersonating VyFinance and promoting fake rewards.
⚠️ This website is NOT affiliated with VyFi.
Our official platform is app.vyfi.io
Always verify URLs before connecting your wallet or signing transactions.
Stay safe!
Watch out for a VyFi lookalike.
A site called vyfi(dot)site ('VYFI Reward Event') showed up in my search claiming a 12.31% VYFI rate. It isn't VyFi's official address.
Only use app.vyfi.io, typed in yourself. I didn't open it.
How can we have this vyfi(.)site taken down?
Kneeco retweeted
So, as part of my daily routine, I log into Midnight.City and notice that something really interesting is going on... 👀
I immediately rushed to tell my friends 😂
I just hope I’m not imagining things 😅🫣
Watch out for a VyFi lookalike.
A site called vyfi(dot)site ('VYFI Reward Event') showed up in my search claiming a 12.31% VYFI rate. It isn't VyFi's official address.
Only use app.vyfi.io, typed in yourself. I didn't open it.
How can we have this vyfi(.)site taken down?
Kneeco retweeted
MIDNIGHT just hit 1 MILLION transactions! 🚀
🚨BREAKING: MIDNIGHT MAINNET SURPASSES 1 MILLION TRANSACTIONS!
A major milestone for the @MidnightNtwrk ecosystem! 🎉
According to Midnight Explorer, Mainnet has now recorded over 1,019,963 transactions.
📈 Daily transactions tell an even bigger story:
• Sep 27: 128 transactions
• Oct 26: 47,714 transactions
That's a 372x increase in daily activity in just one month! 🔥
A remarkable sign of growing on-chain activity as Midnight's privacy-first ecosystem continues to evolve.
Kneeco retweeted
The Gummiworm specification, funded by Catalyst Fund 11, is complete ✅
Gummiworm is a layer 2 for Cardano with fast finality, high throughput and decentralized custody of your funds. The community voted for us to document it in full, so anyone can understand how it works and build with it. Thank you to everyone who voted!
Here’s what we delivered: a whitepaper with 51 articles, 50,000 words and 40+ diagrams, from the protocol design to how your funds are protected.
📄 gummiworm.net/whitepaper
Then we put it to the test. @SugarRushDEX, an orderbook exchange built on our L2, ran a 14-day trading competition on Cardano mainnet and processed 660M+ L2 transactions.
The spec is done, but Gummiworm keeps evolving: over a quarter of the whitepaper maps out what comes next.
Watch the full story in our closeout video:
🎥 youtu.be/htfaffzqW4E
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Did you say $8 is too ambitious for Midnight $NIGHT ? Read this and answer at the end.
Why would a global bank choose MIDNIGHT over other privacy blockchains?
Banks manage billions. Global financial institutions manage trillions (plural) .
But they can't expose every client's balance, transaction, investment strategy or business relationship on a public blockchain.
And they can't operate without regulatory oversight either.
This is where Midnight's PROGRAMMABLE PRIVACY gets interesting.
Keep sensitive financial information private.
Prove transactions follow predefined rules.
Allow authorised disclosure to regulators and auditors.
Build privacy-enabled applications across connected blockchain ecosystems.
And we're already seeing institutions explore this opportunity (see previous posts, too many already working with Midnight)
Monument Bank is working with Midnight on a programme targeting up to £250 MILLION in tokenised deposits starting November.
Now imagine that model expanding beyond one bank.
Private lending.
Tokenised assets.
Institutional DeFi.
Cross-border finance.
Here's where $NIGHT comes into the picture.
More real applications could create greater demand for Midnight's DUST-powered transaction capacity.
And NIGHT generates DUST.
Don't even get me started on NightMode, Solana and Tron will be undergoing privacy mode starting December.
But if programmable privacy becomes essential financial infrastructure, the valuation conversation could look very different.
Midnight will become infrastructure that institutions actually depend on.
$8 will just be the beginning to price in for next round.
Kneeco retweeted
🚨TRON will be implementing Nightmode from Midnight for private yet compliant payments!
It already works on Ethereum & is expanding to Bitcoin, Solana, and more.
Midnight is bringing shielded privacy to major crypto ecosystems.
midnight-3:native
Kneeco retweeted
Cardano Ada is a digital commodity and not a security, and I am glad the Cardano Foundation, Stellar, Aptos, Ava Labs (Avalanche), Hedera and Chainlink are seeking to get official comment on our specific coins to cement the understanding. Definitely a good idea 💯
Earlier this year, the SEC classified $ADA as a digital commodity, not a security.
However, this classification only appears in the explanation of the new crypto rules, not in the rules themselves.
Six blockchain organizations have asked the SEC to write it into the rules. We co-signed the letter, alongside @StellarOrg, @Hedera, @AptosLabs, @AvaLabs and @Chainlink.
