Vern

Intern @nocy_io Private DeFi on #Midnight

[Vern @skunku5]

Been spending a lot of time looking into @MidnightNtwrk lately.

The more you understand it, the more one thing becomes obvious: public #DeFi doesn’t really scale.

Not for serious capital. Not for real-world use.
Everything is visible - wallets, strategies, positions.

That works… until it doesn’t.

Midnight is approaching this differently: programmable privacy

Not hiding everything, but controlling what gets revealed.

And that changes a lot.

What’s interesting is that most people are still focused on the tech itself, very few are looking at what’s being built on top of it.

That’s where nocy stands out. They’re not building one product.

They’re building the core layer: wallet, explorer, DEX, launchpad.

• all designed for private DeFi from day one.

Feels like one of those moments where things are obvious in hindsight… but not yet in real time.

Worth paying attention.

$NIGHT

[nocy @nocy_io]

Today we’re releasing the nocy Wallet + nocy DEX to the community for testing.

This isn’t a teaser, it’s the first real front door into privacy-first #DeFi on @MidnightNtwrk

nocy has been built from the ground up to match Midnight’s rational privacy model: private by default, provable when it matters.

What’s live now:

🛡️ nocy Wallet - native #Midnight wallet supporting shielded + unshielded balances, clear UX for privacy flows, and DUST fee generation via registered $NIGHT UTXOs.
🛡️ nocy DEX (MVP) - a central limit order book spot market designed for shielded trading with real buy/sell orders and tight execution.

We’ve built these tools not just as products, but as the interfaces people actually use in a privacy-native environment.

Get started:
🔗 Wallet: https://t.co/NseZqgPBxR
🔗 DEX: https://t.co/Jnfe1L2gcg
🔗 Faucet (test tokens): https://t.co/R0yc7Ll3Cz

💡 We’ll be dropping setup guides, best practices, and beta updates in Discord and we want feedback (and bug reports) from early users.

Details + guides: https://t.co/E1PgUpEA8P

If you’re building on Midnight: come break this with us.

[nocy @nocy_io]

The most underrated part of Midnight is not only privacy.

It is control.

• Control over what is public.
• Control over what is private.
• Control over what gets disclosed.
• Control over how applications interact with sensitive data.

That is a very different design space.

$night

[nocy @nocy_io]

Private #DeFi needs more than swaps.

It needs:

• a wallet that understands shielded flows
• an explorer that respects privacy
• markets that reduce information leakage
• infrastructure builders can verify

That is the direction. @MidnightNtwrk

[nocy @nocy_io]

There is a difference between building for a test environment and building for real network conditions.

Midnight is moving into the part where products matter.

We have been preparing for that.

$nocy

[nocy @nocy_io]

https://t.co/FJnbGg4LJI

[Vern @skunku5]

@nocy_io

[nocy @nocy_io]

The protocol gives you capability.

The product gives you access.

Midnight brings programmable privacy.
nocy brings the interfaces around it.

Soon TBA 👀

[nocy @nocy_io]

Privacy is not a feature you add at the end.

• It changes the wallet.
• It changes the explorer.
•It changes the DEX.
• It changes the way users think about ownership, activity and disclosure.

That is why nocy is a full stack, not a single app.

[nocy @nocy_io]

We have been quiet because the stack matters more than the timeline.

Midnight is different infrastructure.

Different infrastructure needs different products.

The first products people use will define how they understand the network.

midnight-3:native

[nocy @nocy_io]

https://t.co/5OpSTZkODk

[nocy @nocy_io]

Midnight is not hide everything.

It is closer to:

• prove what must be proven
• disclose what must be disclosed
• keep the rest protected

That is a much stronger foundation for real financial applications.

midnight-3:native

[nocy @nocy_io]

Explorers on privacy-first networks are different.

They need to make public activity understandable, support verification, and respect the parts of the network designed to stay private.

That balance is where #Midnight gets interesting.

That’s also where nocy Explorer is focused.

[nocy @nocy_io]

Most public orderbooks were not designed for privacy.

Visible order flow leaks intent. ➜ Intent leaks strategy. ➜ Strategy gets monetized by someone else.

Private #DeFi needs markets that understand privacy from day one.

$night

[Vern @skunku5]

@BTCFrogsMerch @nocy_io 🤷‍♂️
https://t.co/J0uIs9gbNa

[nocy @nocy_io]

Most #DeFi was built for public execution.

@MidnightNtwrk changes the assumptions.

• Private state.
• Selective disclosure.
• ZK verification.
• Predictable execution resources.

That needs a different stack.

So we built one.

[Vern @skunku5]

@BTCFrogsMerch @nocy_io Waiting for the Midnight network to be fully usable on mainnet and available to every builder who wants to launch dApps.

[nocy @nocy_io]

nocy is built for that layer 👇

$night

[nocy @nocy_io]

A wallet is not just a place to hold assets.

On #Midnight, the wallet becomes the interface for:

• shielded balances
• unshielded balances
• DUST
• proof-based interaction
• selective disclosure
• private execution

The UX matters more than ever. $night

[Vern @skunku5]

People forget that Nocy is the first to everything on #Midnight

Just sayin’.

Let’s see who’s got the best products, but my bet is on these guys.

[nocy @nocy_io]

Today we’re releasing the nocy Wallet + nocy DEX to the community for testing.

This isn’t a teaser, it’s the first real front door into privacy-first #DeFi on @MidnightNtwrk

nocy has been built from the ground up to match Midnight’s rational privacy model: private by default, provable when it matters.

What’s live now:

🛡️ nocy Wallet - native #Midnight wallet supporting shielded + unshielded balances, clear UX for privacy flows, and DUST fee generation via registered $NIGHT UTXOs.
🛡️ nocy DEX (MVP) - a central limit order book spot market designed for shielded trading with real buy/sell orders and tight execution.

We’ve built these tools not just as products, but as the interfaces people actually use in a privacy-native environment.

Get started:
🔗 Wallet: https://t.co/NseZqgPBxR
🔗 DEX: https://t.co/Jnfe1L2gcg
🔗 Faucet (test tokens): https://t.co/R0yc7Ll3Cz

💡 We’ll be dropping setup guides, best practices, and beta updates in Discord and we want feedback (and bug reports) from early users.

Details + guides: https://t.co/E1PgUpEA8P

If you’re building on Midnight: come break this with us.

[Vern @skunku5]

@nocy_io 🚀 We ready!

[nocy @nocy_io]

We have been quiet.

• Midnight has been moving.
• The network has been changing.
• The window is opening.

And Nocy was never gone. 👀

midnight-3:native