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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "bridges have to go, they're just bad. What Midnight wants to do via Nightstream is the ability to fold a chain—including a proof with the spend. LayerZero is pursuing this with Jolt. It's the future of bridges, you won't have these hacks anymore."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "do you want to live in a world where a small group of people decide how your world is gonna be from cradle to grave? Or do you want to live in a world where it's a negotiation, and you have some say and agency over you?"

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "every decision for Midnight City, we say "what do we need to get to a million users, a million agents, and a commercial success? This is going to be our biggest bet in 2027, it's our fastest-growing product, there's already 12,000 people in it."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "how do you do data provenance? Of what you created, you own, you earn? That's a blockchain. A blockchain is a system of records, showing when it was created, and how it transferred from person to person; it's the supply chain of the knowledge."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "I just want people to have their privacy back, and I want people to enjoy what Satoshi intended."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "I think Cardano's great, I'm still one of the largest $ADA holders."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "I was just at a Solana event, they were very gracious. We added Solana support into Midnight."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "I'm happiest when I have something to build, that's why I love the AI revolution—it made everybody a builder. Every time I talked to somebody, I said don't bring me an idea, bring me a product—then we can work together and engage with each other."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "it's a golden age for building, and I love solving hard problems, there's a reason I studied mathematics—I love this idea of a puzzle, and pulling it apart and solving the whole thing. Markets are puzzles, systems are puzzles, AI's a puzzle."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "society cannot work if we don't trust each other. Why we're having so many problems right now, is the technology and globalization are moving too quickly, and we're not able to adapt enough to trust everyone, so we're regressing to tribalism."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "the consumer revolution is finally here—we're gonna see hundreds of millions of new people enter. They won't know they're using crypto or crypto rails. It'll be a natural extension of AI tools and financial infrastructure they're already using."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "the Pentad brought in LayerZero to have a Tier-1 bridge partner to work with, but long term, the only solution is gonna be to have folding proofs and PCD (Proof-Carrying Data), so trustless bridges."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "the VPN for DeFi is understandable for everyday people. Under the hood, there's so much more to it. Nightframes combine trusted execution environments, MPC, and ZK—it gives you a computational black box, an intelligent cross-chain smart contract."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "there's gonna be more people on the Internet who are agents than human beings. That's a firm thesis that we have, and we've been constructing an online civilization."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "this idea of frontier maps with Midnight City, once those are matured and working well, get those into the Midnight roadmap, so Midnight users can vote on the direction and focus of Midnight, and we get a much more productive governance system."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "we gotta get the last mile of governance put in, reinforce the institutions we have—to a point where they can recursively self-improve things, get the roadmap and vision done, and make sure year after year the budget process continues to improve."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "we have a very cooperative, collaborative relationship with Midnight Foundation. I have weekly calls with Fahmi Syed. We work with them very closely, we're already planning TOKEN2049 and Abu Dhabi Finance. We're lockstep on many different things."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "we have to take our privacy back, our wallet, our identity. Just through a game, I can solve most of the problems of AI. ZK makes it deterministic—it has to complete a proof. You put money, everybody's gonna try to hack it, which makes it secure."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "we're walking into a world of digital ID—so how do we restore constitutional controls, give you a right to privacy, your freedoms back, and ensure those liberties are revitalized and brought in? That's the purpose of the blockchain industry."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "why AI, exponential technologies are so interesting and difficult for us, is they improve themselves—they get faster and dramatically better. Why is it then, that regulation doesn't do that? Everything fixes itself and the system is self-healing."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "you today can send a transaction on Midnight, using SNARKs, to send a transaction without revealing an address. You can do this today on the Midnight Network. Try it out, go to the preview network, get some testnet $NIGHT, and send it."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "you're a human being, you're entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You can trust code if it's well audited, the incentives are constructed the right way, and enough people get involved in it."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says $AZTEC does "good work." Zac Williamson, Co-Founder of Aztec, the "leading privacy-first L2 on Ethereum," says "that means a lot coming from you. I've read a lot about Midnight and its architecture—happy to share what we've learned building Aztec."

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UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says $NIGHT is making privacy "as easy as possible—to work on iPhone, Android, 1 click to do stuff, thumbprint, use trusted execution devices in the phones—easy to get your value, identity, and data in 1 place, then go cross-chain and do stuff with it."

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