A brother bought 30,000 DUST as a shitcoin, and now it's all rotting in his wallet.

Last week, I saw a true story in the Midnight developer group. A guy thought the community was always talking about DUST, thinking it was the next hundredfold shitcoin, and directly invested 30,000 into it. He probably didn’t read the white paper—DUST can’t be transferred at all, nor can it be listed on exchanges, and it automatically returns to zero after seven days. Now that "asset" is still moldy in his wallet, and he can't even give it away.

This sounds like a joke, but it actually reveals the logic of the bottom pants of @MidnightNetwork . $NIGHT is the ticket that lets you enter the market, with a total supply of 24 billion, 40% given to the community, and if you hold it, you can continuously farm DUST. DUST isn’t for trading; it’s meant to be burned as Gas, and once burned, it’s done; if you don’t burn it, it disappears automatically after seven days. Friends who have been burned by high and volatile Gas fees on other chains should understand that this design means that even if the price of $NIGHT skyrockets, your fuel cost for running applications remains stable.

The logic behind Midnight choosing this path is actually quite simple—completely separate the attributes of assets and consumables. Those who trade coins can play with $NIGHT , while those who use the chain can earn DUST to work; no one gets in the way of anyone else. When the mainnet goes live, I would like to see if the owner of those 30,000 DUST will be the first person to successfully run a privacy contract. #night