Mainnet Countdown: What to Watch in the Final Days
March 26 is the date I have circled. That is when Kūkolu, the first mainnet phase, goes live with ten hand picked operators including Google Cloud and MoneyGram. After months of reading docs and watching testnet activity, we are about to see whether Midnight’s selective sharing model holds up in the real world.
The next few weeks will tell us two things. First, whether the federated launch gives institutions the confidence to actually start building. There is already a Turkish healthcare pilot running on testnet with three million patient proofs. The question is how fast that moves to production. Second, whether the transition plan to decentralization, Mohalu in Q2 and Hua in Q3, stays on track. That is the part that still makes me nervous, because hand picked nodes are not the same as community run validators.
I will be watching the node operator announcements, any developer activity on mainnet, and most importantly whether the DUST Capacity Exchange launches on schedule. This is the moment where theory meets practice. No more whitepapers, just real chain data.