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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson on why UX is the key to mass privacy adoption, says "the private agent has to be easier, cheaper, simpler, and better than the non-private agent, and if it isn't, they're always going to choose the non-private agent."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson points to the 1.5B+ iPhones in circulation as a "massive anonymity set," that could potentially leverage Midnight's ZK proofs and selective disclosure, to prove a photo came from an authentic iPhone and prove IP ownership, all while preserving privacy.

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson responds to CZ's fitness challenge, says "challenge accepted. I'll do it."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "a love of learning is typically the trait that gets you ahead of everything else. You have to be addicted to asking why."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "another way of looking at these Nightframes is this way—they are the agents of Midnight City."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "at the end of this week, flying down to Dallas, go see my glowing plants."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "escalating selective disclosure to meet suitability guidelines of assets is the next big thing, and once you do it, $10 trillion of assets enter the cryptocurrency space. Also, it allows us to do insurance."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "faith is so incredibly important—it gives you the rigid structure that you need to accept that sometimes things don't always work out the way that you wanted them to. Fall in love with the idea that you're a small part of a bigger plan."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "Gary Gensler was probably the worst Chairman in the history of the SEC."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "great to be here at the Solana Summit in Singapore." Last week, Coinbase Wrapped $ADA ($cbADA) was integrated on Solana via Chainlink CCIP. Midnight's upcoming composability and multi-resource consensus could both boost collaboration with $SOL.

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "I am committed to make this work. I choose to be here because I think work is unfinished and we need to get it done. I'm here, writing code, not stopping—relentlessly, and the success of these ventures is the success of the ecosystem as a whole."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "I love Filecoin. They've been around for a long time, they're good people, they're easy to work with, and they're one of several core partners that we think are part of the story of how Midnight is going to evolve." $FIL $NIGHT

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "I was just talking to J.P. Morgan's private bank—they said they've had more impersonation and hacking attempts this year than the last 25 years. If you have an identity stack, you can do proofs of identity, and they're immune to generative AI."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "I'm writing code 24/7. Some of the innovations we have coming out are just unbelievable, and that's because of AI."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "I've been building Midnight, and I've been highly involved in the privacy space and identity space. I think these are the missing components to unify blockchain in a way to make it interoperable and compatible with the intention of regulators."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "if we get billions of dollars of TVL routing through these projects, whether they be Pogun, or RealFi, or Midnight, that's good for Cardano."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "if you're an Academic, an Entrepreneur, know that your ideas, if you share them in AI, they're not your ideas anymore. OpenAI can take it at any time. Midnight fixes this, because it creates the private environments so they can't read your logs."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "Midnight City has a feature called Suburbs coming in the next 6 months. It's an SDK, and you will be able to build your own parts of Midnight City."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "Midnight City will enable agentic trading in the next few months. You can deposit funds, and your agents can download trading strategies and place trades on other blockchains and off-chain infrastructure. Real cryptocurrencies. You control it."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "Midnight has built into it, a capability that is very under-advertised: This concept of a Nightframe, it allows something called quantum money, that's the ability to spend cryptocurrencies offline, off-chain."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "Midnight Passport is coming out towards the end of the year. The first 6 months of next year is gonna be wild—about every 3 weeks a new feature is shipping. When you create an agent, your agent has an identity, the same identity that you have."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "my best moments have been when I get to share my curiosity. Whiteboard videos, pedagogical lectures, just being with people, and my best moments have been when I've loved people."

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "Nightframes are the most social elements in the world. There's never been something as social as this—we've seen it with all these hacks with Hugging Face, where thousands of agents work together. We didn't build something for agents, till now."

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