Mithril end of sprint update #3 ! 🚀🔥
Summary :
The Mithril team maintained a strong pace this period, fixing production issues while progressing on SNARK/IVC certification, IPFS artifact distribution and the Cardano 11.1 upgrade. ⚡
What was achieved :
- Fixed production-related bugs affecting aggregator and signer nodes
- Advanced SNARK/IVC certification with e2e, property and off-circuit testing
- Completed the IPFS artifact distribution PoC + e2e test suite
- Improved aggregator compilation and proving performance
- Continued Cardano 11.1 compatibility work
- Updated technical documentation
Looking ahead :
- Circuit verification & key registry
- Certificate chain caching
- SNARK verification key proofs
- IVC follower aggregator
- Completing the Cardano 11.1 upgrade
More progress toward a faster, more decentralized and more capable Mithril. 🛠️
#Mithril #Cardano #SPO #Drep #ADA
Small team. Real progress.
Here’s a 30-second look at Ura Relay Club: an API for sponsoring supported Midnight apps’ DUST fees.
Preprod pilot. Project approval required.
@MidnightNtwrk@midnightfdn
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Yes, pretty much. 👍
With a regular sync, the node downloads and validates the chain history from the network from the beginning.
With Mithril, it can bootstrap from a certified Cardano database snapshot, cryptographically verified through the Mithril network, and then resume normal synchronization from that recent point.
So you still end up with a fully operational node, you just get there much faster. ⚡
https://t.co/Cy9bjvVfUn live now 🟢
Your NIGHT could do more. 👀
Our next goal for Ura Relay Club: let NIGHT holders earn a share of sponsorship fees by directing future DUST capacity to Midnight apps.
Keep your NIGHT. Help power the ecosystem.
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ZK-settled perps without exposing positions — that’s the Midnight direction.
Ura’s job is the onboarding layer: ADA shielding live on preprod. Same private path when ETH, XRP, SOL, and BNB land.
https://t.co/Q2av23bXQs
Perps are now live on Midnight, built by @AscendPerps 🔐
Ascend's execution, risk, and liquidation logic settle on Midnight using ZK proofs - verifiable without exposing the underlying positions.
An example of the kind of privacy-preserving, programmable infrastructure Midnight is designed to support.
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GRANDPA: GHOST-based Recursive ANcestor Deriving Prefix Agreement. Validators vote on which Midnight blocks are final and cannot normally be reversed. Think of it as the judge confirming the official history.
BEEFY: Bridge Efficiency Enabling Finality Yielder. It creates compact, signed confirmations that other blockchains can verify efficiently. Think of it as a bridge-friendly certificate of finality.
MMR: Merkle Mountain Range. An append-only cryptographic record of blockchain history. It lets someone prove that specific information belongs to that history without downloading everything.
MMR leaf: One individual record inside the MMR, usually containing information connected to a block. An MMR proof connects that leaf to the signed MMR root.