Radu Micle

Challenging the status quo one day at a time.

[Midnight Explorer @midnightexplr]

🚨 MIDNIGHT EXPLORER v2.0.0 IS NOW LIVE 🚀

The upgrade is complete, with near-zero downtime.🔥

Midnight Explorer v2.0.0 has been successfully deployed - marking a major leap forward for the Midnight Network ecosystem.

This isn’t just a redesign. It’s a transformation.

✨ A completely new UI/UX — cleaner, faster, more intuitive
⚡ Smoother performance — built for real-time, real-world usage
🧭 Better navigation — making on-chain data easier to explore than ever

But the real shift is deeper 👇

Midnight Explorer is no longer just an explorer, it’s becoming a modular infrastructure layer and ready to be integrated into wallets, dashboards, and dApps across the ecosystem

@MidnightNtwrk @midnightfdn @IOHK_Charles @IOGroup

[TapTools @TapTools]

JUST IN: Cardano now has 4,500 farmers with Syngenta live on the blockchain in India, onboarding another 150 every week.

The farmers use satellite data to help improve harvests, anchor educational identity, and access digital assets.

[Cardano Foundation @Cardano_CF]

Agentic AI. Quantum-secure identity. Stablecoin micropayments.

Cardano Foundation CEO @F_Gregaard sat down with @GBBC_io at the @NYSE to discuss where blockchain infrastructure is heading next.

[Input Output Group @IOGroup]

Funds on Midnight are Quantum-Safe.

Welcome to the future. ⚛️

[Midnight @MidnightNtwrk]

The moment is here. Midnight is live.

Welcome to the era of privacy by default, and disclosure by choice.

Read the full announcement article 👇

[Midnight Foundation @midnightfdn]

Midnight is live 🥳

Today marks the launch of the @MidnightNtwrk, a defining step forward in blockchain infrastructure and the realization of a fourth-generation architecture.

Rather than forcing a trade-off between transparency and privacy, Midnight allows both to coexist. Developers can build applications where user data remains private, while key conditions can still be proven on-chain, unlocking entirely new design space across financial products, identity systems, and decentralized applications.

Welcome to privacy by default, and disclosure by choice.

Read the full announcement, including details on the network’s phased rollout designed to ensure stability, security, and long-term resilience as the ecosystem expands: https://t.co/OTc7RRtVzq

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

JUST IN: UK challenger bank Monument to tokenize up to £250M in retail deposits on @MidnightNtwrk, marking the first time a UK-regulated bank has tokenized deposits on a public blockchain while keeping them FSCS-protected and interest-bearing.

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

This is one of the largest deals we've ever done and could bring hundreds of millions to billions of TVL to the Midnight ecosystem. I'm extremely proud of @F_ZK_Now and his team at the @midnightfdn for the hard work they put into the negotiations with Monument.

Midnight is the home of Web 2.5 ventures.

[Midnight Foundation @midnightfdn]

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.

[lace.io @lace_io]

🚨 Scam alert

Fake website: lacedesktop. io

Phishing emails mentioning “Lace Desktop 2.0”

We will never ask for your recovery phrase or private keys!

Stay safe. Please use official channels only: https://t.co/wt4HMdprtU

[Andrew | Charms 🟠💎 @AThrouvalas]

Cardano, meet Bitcoin! 🟠🤝🔵

Incredibly proud that this connection is finally complete. The whole "UTXBRO" saga took way longer than we all expected. Can't blame anyone for being frustrated by the wait. I know I was.

Thankfully, the final form is about as beautiful as we'd dreamed of. @CharmsDev has put BTC on Cardano, but it has also aligned both networks in almost all meaningful ways.

Shared liquidity base. Shared programmable asset standard. Shared smart contract protocol for cross-chain, cross-deployable applications.

You can deploy a dapp or a token on Bitcoin using Charms, and it will also work on Cardano out of the box. Dapps can interact with off-chain systems too, including Web2 payments. You can even write your application in a mainstream language like Rust or WASM, which neither chain typically supports.

Charms is simple elegance. A blend of new and old. It takes both Bitcoin and Cardano into the future of scalable programming via zkVM, while being tailored to their classical UTXO DNA.

I encourage every Bitcoin-curious Cardano dev to dive into this protocol. The codebase is open source (under MIT license). Sniff around our docs (those need work - we're on it!). Ask us questions, provide input, and get building.

Charms is your best chance to build on Bitcoin using a framework directly inspired by Cardano's eUTXO model that you understand best. You are now the best-equipped ecosystem to bring programmable functionality to the largest digital asset and the hardest money on Earth.

I'm not technical. I can't build. But I've owned, studied, and written on Bitcoin for years.

My simple goal is to leave my handprint on the Bitcoin network before I walk away. To move the needle on Bitcoin adoption and help advance the mission for global sound money and property rights.

Cardano now looks like the best pathway for me to do that. Not only for its technical synergies with Bitcoin, but for its massive, Bitcoin-loving community that has proven to share my enthusiasm.

We are UTXBros. We are a force to be reckoned with. Today, we've gained a magic tool to make our chains shine together. 💎

Let's win.

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

Who's ready for Midnight?

[Cardano Foundation @Cardano_CF]

Cardano just got programmable tokens at scale.

With CIP-0113, token issuers now have a standard to enforce compliance logic directly to native Cardano assets.

The framework is modular, open source, and live on the Preview testnet.

Learn more:
https://t.co/KYSq3yOXGx

[Input Output Group @IOGroup]

Bridging USDC to Cardano is still $0 👀

We’re extending $0 deposit fees on the USDC → USDCx bridge deposit and relay services for the next 90 days as USDCx momentum continues to grow. Any future changes to the fee strategy will always be communicated transparently.

https://t.co/Sm6Brykccw

[Input Output Group @IOGroup]

🎉 USDCx on Cardano is now available via @Circle xReserve!
For the first 10 days, IOG will subsidize bridge fees for USDCx transfers to Cardano to help you get started with lower costs. All other network and DEX fees remain the responsibility of the user. See the FAQs for details.

USDCx is a Cardano-native asset fully backed 1:1 by USDC held in Circle’s xReserve smart contract. It’s designed to make moving and using dollar value across supported blockchains seamless, providing streamlined access to crosschain USDC liquidity.

With USDCx, users can easily engage with DeFi liquidity, lending, payments, and real-world asset settlement.

Thank you!

This integration was delivered through the Cardano ecosystem’s Critical Integrations program, funded by the community.
Your support has helped bring tier one stablecoin infrastructure to Cardano.
We would also like to thank Pentad and Midgard Labs for helping build, operate and secure the USDCx infrastructure.

Why USDCx:
✅ 1:1 backed by USDC held in xReserve
✅ Simple connectivity across supported chains
✅ No third-party bridges, keeping things straightforward and secure

Learn more:
https://t.co/SXLTblHXnE

[Circle @circle]

USDCx on @Cardano, a USDC-backed stablecoin with seamless access to crosschain USDC liquidity, is now available via Circle xReserve.

With USDCx, enterprises and end users can power payments, lending, trading, borrowing, liquidity provision, and more using a highly liquid stablecoin.
Supported at launch by Cardano DeFi apps @liqwidfinance, @MinswapDEX, and @SundaeSwap.

Key benefits:
✅USDCx is 1:1 backed by USDC held in xReserve
✅Fully interoperable with USDC across supported chains
✅Trust minimized with no third-party bridges required

**For the first 10 days, IOG will be covering all costs for bridging USDC to USDCx on Cardano, helping early adopters get started without fees or friction.**

Learn more: https://t.co/yOA12hJQDk

[Frederik Gregaard @F_Gregaard]

Getting the question a lot lately. Yes UDSA is on BitGo, and is supported in native wallets a lot.

[Frederik Gregaard @F_Gregaard]

Looking forward to Paris Blockchain week

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

Circle and Pentad https://t.co/qSfF1D7bcM

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: CME Group to launch Cardano & Chainlink futures.