Midnight is a privacy-enhancing layer-1 blockchain that uses zero-knowledge cryptography to deliver programmable data protection and selective disclosure for real-world applications. Midnight's Twitter Score is 83 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #10,653 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Midnight operates as a fourth-generation blockchain combining a hybrid ledger architecture that supports both shielded and unshielded assets, allowing applications to mix public and private data as compliance requirements demand. The network was developed initially by Input Output, with Shielded Technologies subsequently taking on the role of core protocol developer and technology partner, and the Midnight Foundation assuming responsibility for network stewardship and ecosystem development, both entities having been established in May 2025. Midnight is designed as a Cardano partner chain, and Cardano stake-pool operators may elect to become Midnight block producers.
Midnight launched its genesis block on March 17, 2026, and the network was officially declared live on March 29, 2026. The project's native utility and governance token, NIGHT, launched on Cardano as a Cardano Native Asset on December 4, 2025, with a stated supply of 24 billion tokens. Holding NIGHT generates DUST, a shielded, non-transferable resource used to pay transaction fees and execute smart contracts, forming a dual-component tokenomics model that separates capital and governance from network resource consumption. The Glacier Drop token distribution opened its claim portal on August 5, 2025, with nearly 34 million wallet addresses across eight blockchain ecosystems, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP Ledger, BNB Chain, Avalanche, and Brave, declared eligible; claims were processed via Hydra, Cardano's layer-2 scaling protocol, to limit main-chain congestion.
Midnight offers developers Compact, a statically typed domain-specific smart-contract language based on TypeScript, intended to lower the barrier to building zero-knowledge applications. At network launch, Midnight identified Worldpay, Bullish, MoneyGram, Pairpoint by Vodafone, eToro, AlphaTON Capital, Google Cloud, Blockdaemon, and Shielded Technologies as federated node partners. Midnight has 79,052 followers as of July 2026 and has published 2,870 posts. Midnight has been mentioned by 313 accounts a total of 979 times.
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The accounts that follow Midnight include 242 founders, 33 angel investors, 276 influencers and 10 VCs. Among them are CoinDesk, Mario Nawfal, Emin Gn Sirer, DEGEN NEWS, OKX and wale.moca.