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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation CTO Sebastien Guillemot says "smart contract deployment is soon going to be enabled on Midnight mainnet. Excited for private smart contracts, including the ability to mint private custom tokens."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation CTO Sebastien Guillemot says with "contract deployment soon on mainnet, it doesn't stop there. Testnet has the next version of smart contracts with a lot of extra new features (events, composability, etc.) Working hard to get those to mainnet next."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed on the CLARITY Act, says "crypto is surviving without it, and it will continue to survive without it."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed says "Dune, LayerZero, conversation around USDCx, a lot of those permeated and originated from within the Midnight Foundation, which we then brought into the #Cardano $ADA ecosystem."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed says "institutional adopting is coming. The blockchain industry has a choice, it can either fight it, or it can try to surf that wave, and build the best surfboard ever, but it needs some unity and for us to align as an industry."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed says "Nightmode is about how Midnight extends privacy to other chains, like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and many others."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed says "the $NIGHT token is a Cardano Native Asset. What we've shown, is that Cardano Native Assets can launch successfully and widely, not only within $ADA's ecosystem, but across multiple global exchanges, CEXs, DEXs, and beyond."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed says "we want to be able to help Cardano rise. For me, the real focus is Midnight, and ensuring Midnight succeeds, and if we can take our friends and partners with us, that's also a benefit for us."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed says "Web2.5 will be the convergence of blockchain data supporting existing institutions that are bridging legacy or new private blockchain databases to each other—it's taking advantage of 24/7 trading, tokenization, stablecoins."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed says they're speaking with "some of the largest banks globally, regional banks, banks in Europe, and beyond."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed teases making "Bitcoin private on Midnight."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President says "Monument Bank is regulated by the Bank of England. Midnight allows them a permissionless private network. Clients will see an ability to tokenize deposits on their bank app with extra yield, they don't even need to know it's Midnight."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President says "we have a consortia of 6 banks in Canada looking at this use case to build similar solutions. We have a bank in Japan doing the same." Monument Bank is set to tokenize a "highly achievable" target of $330M of deposits on

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation President says "when you combine (agentic trading) with private Offer Files, and the Collateral Warehouse, a single private vault, suddenly—Web3, Web2, and TradFi come closer together, and that merge and convergence is what's happening on Midnight."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation Product Director Karmel Elshinnawi says "you can create a Midnight Passport account through your favorite wallet. We're meeting our users where they are."

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation says "partners like Monument Bank are the ones speaking to the regulators, they are the regulated entity. We are solutions people—backgrounds in finance, data, technology. We listen to them, saying how does our technology fit into your requirements?"

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UPDATE: Midnight Foundation says $NIGHT is a "permissionless public blockchain that allows individuals, institutions, to build a private sovereign zone within our network—no backdoor keys. Midnight can operate in a very private way but allow programmable selective disclosures."

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UPDATE: Midnight is "speaking to some of the largest banks in the world, because they recognize that they built private blockchains, which is great for internal use cases, but then you become siloed. How do you create connective tissue to other chains without leaking metadata?"

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UPDATE: Midnight Passport "allows you to control your identity, data, and money—through cryptographic proofs, who sees that, and what's available. You can also delegate it to your agent—to trade or act on your behalf without exposing any sensitive data to that agent or the web."

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UPDATE: Midnight's Collateral Warehouse "creates one private vault for holding all your assets, both on-chain and off-chain. It gives you control—you get to decide how to utilize that for private trading, private clearing, private lending and borrowing, and many other features."

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UPDATE: Midnight's Nightmode allows users to "deposit funds like you would in a CEX, and use DeFi protocols in an entirely permissionless way. There's no KYC, no heavy regulatory burden of starting an exchange. You just get going and everyone's assets and trades become private."

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UPDATE: Monument Bank and Midnight are "working very closely on doing the tokenization of deposits for retail. It's the first time that retail will be able to access programmable money. Security and privacy are vital."

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UPDATE: Monument Bank says tokenizing deposits using Midnight's privacy-enhancing technologies is a "natural intersection between DeFi and TradFi. This is the most practical, safe, realistic first step into the digital asset world." $NIGHT

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UPDATE: More than $4 billion in assets have reportedly been withdrawn from Binance since withdrawals resumed following the $6.3 billion hack.

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