@IOHK_Charles Hey Charles - heading to Boulder next summer. Two week vacation. First visit. Any recommendations on where to stay please. Love the outdoors, trails, hiking etc.
Midnight 🤝 Monument Bank
Monument is set to become the first UK-regulated bank to tokenize retail customer deposits on a public blockchain — representing interest-bearing savings as digital tokens while remaining fully backed, redeemable in GBP, and protected under existing regulatory frameworks.
Built on Midnight’s privacy-enhancing blockchain infrastructure, this approach ensures that transaction data remains shielded and accessible only to authorized participants — enabling the use of blockchain technology while maintaining the confidentiality and compliance required in regulated financial services.
The initiative begins with a target of £250 million in tokenized deposits and represents the first phase in a broader rollout to expand access to tokenized financial products. Over time, this includes enabling exposure to asset classes such as private equity and structured products, and introducing more flexible lending models — capabilities historically reserved for institutional and private banking clients.
Together, this partnership demonstrates how regulated financial institutions can bring traditional financial products on-chain — unlocking a more flexible, accessible, and programmable financial system without compromising privacy or regulatory standards.
🚨BREAKING: Google Cloud has just published the hash metadata of its stake pool to the Cardano testnet blockchain!
👉Big tech companies are gradually entering the Cardano and Midnight ecosystems.🔥
JUST IN: Midnight Foundation Senior Developer Relations Engineer Stevan Lohja says "there's more" behind Google Cloud running a #Cardano node, and its path towards a Midnight validator, signaling more collaboration for $ADA and $NIGHT with Google.
The launch of Night has been an incredible success. It's amazing how well the ecosystem is developing and holding up. It's on it's way to be the first true 4th generation cryptocurrency and bring in a new era to our industry.
I'm so proud of everyone!
JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "we met with Cardano Foundation, Intersect, and EMURGO. I would like to thank them for their professionalism and attentiveness. We all worked together as one team. Hopefully this can lead to a new chapter of collaboration."
I couldn't be more confident in Cardano after today. What I witnessed was decentralization in motion, people from every corner of the world, from founding entities to SPOs, individual builders, businesses, and DReps, all working together in real time. No central coordinator, just a resilient blockchain and a passionate community aligning on a common goal.
And while all of that collaboration was happening, the blockchain continued to operate, no outages, no downtime, a testament to Cardano’s engineering, architecture, and the strength of a truly decentralized system.