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The 2 million U vulnerability bounty officially starts today! This is not just talk; it is a bounty offered by the DDA Foundation for CST. A project that dares to set this prize must have solid technical foundations—DDA Foundation was established in 2019 by several core technology companies and has participated in several well-known projects on GitHub, their strength is beyond doubt. Tomorrow, they will also participate as a silver sponsor at the Thailand summit (hosted by Non-Small Number), showcasing CST. Tech giants, go for it! #CST #DDA基金会 #200万U漏洞悬赏

Last week someone asked me, what is the difference between Midnight's privacy protection and VPN, and why should ordinary people care.
I was taken aback for a moment because this question is more fundamental than most technical discussions.
I gave him an analogy. A VPN puts a coat on your data; no one on the road knows what you're wearing, but when you reach your destination, you still have to take it off, and the other party can still see everything. Midnight's ZK proof is different—you don’t need to take off the coat; you just need to prove to the other party, "I am wearing compliant clothing underneath," and once the other party verifies, the interaction is complete, but no one ever sees exactly what you are wearing.
After hearing this, he said: then what use is this for ordinary people? Ordinary people don’t need to prove compliance to others.
This reaction struck me as interesting because it precisely pointed out the most real market education problem that $NIGHT is currently facing—its core users are not ordinary crypto users at all, but those institutions and developers caught between data protection and compliance verification. Just because ordinary people are unaware of this pain point does not mean it doesn't exist; it just means it is still in the B-end and has not yet penetrated the C-end.
This is a double-edged sword for @MidnightNetwork . B-end market purchasing decisions are slow, but once they come in, there is real and stable demand for use that won't disappear because of fluctuations in market sentiment. The C-end market comes quickly but cannot be retained; once an event ends, it disappears.
What I am focusing on now is whether the B-end has truly landed, not how lively the C-end is. I have seen too much liveliness; what is valuable is the quiet run.
#night $NIGHT @MidnightNetwork

I tried to deploy the simplest private contract on the Midnight test network, and got stuck twice.
I’m not here to criticize the project; I genuinely tried it out.
The first time I got stuck was during environment configuration. The contract with @MidnightNetwork used the Compact language, which is neither Solidity nor Rust, but a DSL designed by them. I thought I could get Hello World up and running in half an hour, but it took almost an afternoon just to figure out the local compilation environment—the documentation listed the steps, but didn't clearly state the pitfalls with dependency versions, and the error messages weren't straightforward enough.
The second time I got stuck was even more interesting. I wanted to write the most basic scenario: the user submits a private value, and the chain only verifies "whether it is greater than a certain threshold," without exposing the specific number. Logically, this is precisely the most typical use case for ZK proofs, but I spent a long time understanding the boundary of "how private states interact with public ledgers." The descriptions in the documentation were quite abstract, and there weren't enough example codes for comparison.
In the end, I managed to get it running after some stumbling. The chain indeed only output a boolean value; the raw data did not go on-chain, and the logic of ZK proofs itself is solid.
But what I want to say is: the technology behind $NIGHT needs to improve its documentation and developer experience significantly if it wants more developers to actually use it. The underlying technology is correct, but the threshold is still a bit high.
This is not a defect; it's the current real state.
#night $NIGHT @MidnightNetwork

Most people buy tokens but do not realize that they are actually buying "voting rights"
In the crypto market, there is a type of holder who does only one thing after buying: wait for the price to rise.
They treat tokens as a "pure stock price game", completely ignoring the matter of on-chain governance. And this may be the most underrated holding right in the Web3 era.
NIGHT is not just a tool for generating DUST; it is also the governance credential of the Midnight network.
@MidnightNetwork has designed a set of on-chain treasury mechanism: a portion of $NIGHT tokens belongs to the protocol, locked on-chain, specifically used for funding ecological construction projects. This funding is not unilaterally controlled by any centralized team, but is collectively decided by $NIGHT holders through an on-chain decentralized governance mechanism.
In other words, whoever holds NIGHT holds a part of the decision-making power of this network's "financial budget".
This is not a conceptual game. The source of funding for the on-chain treasury is real—part of the block rewards will continuously flow into the treasury, and as the capacity market matures, cross-chain transaction fees of non-NIGHT tokens will also enter the treasury. This means that the treasury is not a one-time startup fund, but a diversified asset pool that will continue to grow with the network.
The scope of governance is also not small. From protocol parameter adjustments, block size settings, to ecological project funding, and network upgrade plans—these decisions will ultimately be made by NIGHT holders through on-chain voting.
Of course, the white paper honestly states this: a complete decentralized governance mechanism is still under development, and the mainnet will initially be managed by a federal committee in a transitional manner. But the roadmap is clear, the code will be open-sourced, and each step of the transition will have a verifiable on-chain mechanism as a guarantee.
Most people buy tokens and then anxiously wait in front of the K-line.
While a few understand: holding $NIGHT is like obtaining a long-term shareholder certificate for a privacy infrastructure network that is under construction—not only sharing prices but also sharing the decision-making power of where this network will go in the future.
These two holding methods may yield completely different long-term returns.
$NIGHT #night @MidnightNetwork

I have been focusing on a detail for a long time: the Midnight team, braving the blizzard in Hokkaido, went to give lectures on ZK proofs to dozens of local developers before the mainnet launch.
It's not a Twitter Space, it's not a YouTube live stream, it's an offline workshop in the blizzard.
This event itself is small, but it has helped me clarify a previously vague question: the long-term value of $NIGHT is not supported by the white paper, but by the developers who learned to write privacy contracts in Compact language at workshops. The difference between these two things is: a white paper can be written overnight, while a developer community needs to be built city by city.
In simple terms: they are seriously doing a slow thing, rather than doing something that looks fast. In the crypto industry, this choice itself is a signal, because most projects will invest all their resources in marketing before the mainnet launch, instead of pouring them into offline workshops in the blizzard.
I believe the quality of the developer ecosystem of @MidnightNetwork is deeper than what most analytical articles reflect, and the reason is this — they are building it in a way that is hard to replicate, one city, one workshop, one developer who has truly worked with Compact language. This accumulation will not suddenly become an obvious number on the day of the mainnet launch, but it will manifest in the quality and density of real applications on the chain six months later, a year later. The kind of accumulation represented by #night is the part that is hardest to catch up with in the long-term value of $NIGHT . (Real professionals · Life-saving first)
The mainnet of $NIGHT will launch in the last week of March. The builders are ready.

I've been focused on a detail for a long time: the Midnight team, braving the snowstorm in Hokkaido, went to give dozens of local developers a talk on ZK proofs before the mainnet launch.
It's not a Twitter Space, it's not a YouTube live stream; it's an offline workshop in a snowstorm.
This event itself is small, but it made me clarify a previously vague question: the long-term value of $NIGHT is not supported by a white paper, but by developers learning to write privacy contracts in Compact language at workshops. The difference between these two things is: a white paper can be written overnight, while a developer community needs to be built city by city.
In plain terms: they are seriously doing a slow thing, rather than doing something that seems fast. In the crypto industry, this choice itself is a signal because most projects would pour all resources into marketing before the mainnet launch, rather than into offline workshops in a snowstorm.
I believe the quality of the developer ecosystem of @MidnightNetwork is deeper than what is reflected in most analytical articles, and the reason is this— they are building it in a way that is hard to replicate, one city, one workshop, one developer who has truly worked with the Compact language. This accumulation will not suddenly turn into a noticeable number on the day the mainnet launches, but it will be reflected in the quality and density of real applications on the chain six months or a year later. #night That kind of accumulation is the part of the long-term value of $NIGHT that is the hardest to catch up with. (Real professional · Safety first)
The mainnet for $NIGHT is launching in the last week of March. The people building are ready.

Last weekend, I went to a friend's house for dinner. At the dinner table, his dad asked me what I had been researching lately. I said the privacy technology of blockchain.
His dad is in foreign trade, over sixty years old, and doesn't have much of a concept about blockchain, but when he heard the words "privacy," he put down his chopsticks and asked me: Can it be done in a way that my payment terms and client information are not visible to competitors, but still accessible to banks and tax authorities?
I was taken aback for a moment.
This question is not one that a person who understands blockchain would ask; it’s one that someone who is doing real business every day has accurately described in his own language about a dilemma he faces daily. He doesn't know about ZK proofs, doesn't know about DUST, doesn't know about @MidnightNetwork , but the need he described is logically identical to Midnight's "prove what's necessary, keep the rest private."
I explained for about ten minutes, and when he finished listening, he said one thing: If this can really be used, there are many people in our industry who need it.
Not "sounds good," but "many people need it." The meanings of these two sentences are very different— the former is politeness, while the latter is a confirmation of real demand, coming from someone who has been in this industry for decades.
I believe this kind of confirmation is more persuasive than any institutional node announcement. Institutions entering nodes are assessing feasibility; real users saying "many people need it" are describing the existence of demand. The long-term value of $NIGHT ultimately relies on the second type of confirmation, not the first. (Real professionals · Life-saving first)
After dinner, he asked me what this project is called. I told him. He took out his phone to write it down and said he would ask his son to help him research it later. #night

The Middle East is increasingly unstable, and the market will understand what 'geopolitical infrastructure' means

Many people view the situation in the Middle East as risky;
but I have recently felt more and more that the market will eventually see another layer from the risks—an infrastructure premium.

Why? Because the more complex the situation, the more people will realize that what is truly scarce is not the surface heat, but whether the underlying systems can continue to operate. Will capital flow, can cooperation be realized, how to confirm cross-regional trust, how to connect the rules—these things usually do not reveal themselves, but once the environment becomes complex, the value immediately emerges.

This is also the reason I have recently revisited @SignOfficial .

Many projects talk about growth, about traffic, about narrative diffusion; but the more noteworthy point about $SIGN is that it corresponds not to a single hotspot, but to a deeper direction: as geopolitical uncertainty rises, who can become the new collaborative interface.

The Middle East is not a place that only needs 'faster'; it needs 'more stable'.
Stable connections, stable confirmations, stable trust transmission.
These capabilities might not seem the most attractive during stable times; however, during reconstruction periods, they often get revalued.

So I believe that the focus on $SIGN has never just been a token story, but whether it has the opportunity to be embedded in the new framework of future regional cooperation.
The truly large space does not come from a slogan, but from whether it can become 'irreplaceable' in a complex situation.

Ultimately, the market will understand:
The more turbulent the place, the more order is needed;
The more order is needed, the higher the geopolitical infrastructure premium will be.

I feel that this line is far from being finished.

@SignOfficial
#sign地缘政治基建 $SIGN

Last week, someone in the group asked me: Is $NIGHT worth buying?
I didn't answer directly because I think the question was wrong. "Is it worth buying" is a question about the current price, but the issue that @MidnightNetwork needs to solve is a proposition about the next three to five years—whether companies dare to move their core business onto the chain depends on whether the transparency issue has been truly resolved. Placing these two time dimensions within the same question framework will certainly lead to confusion.
I countered him: Do you think that in five years, more and more companies will put commercial data on the chain, or fewer and fewer? He thought for a moment and said: It should be more, but right now they are afraid. I said: Then our disagreement boils down to one thing—can the Midnight solution really solve the "fear" issue? If it can, the current price of $NIGHT is underestimated; if it can't, no matter how low the price is, it is still a waste.
My own judgment on this matter is: the technical direction is correct, the execution path is clear, but validation takes time, and time has a cost. Worldpay has entered the node, MoneyGram has entered the node, and the compliance teams of these institutions have already provided a preliminary answer through internal evaluation processes, but that answer is still far from "real business on the chain".
So my answer to him was: If your time dimension is three months, I have no answer; if your time dimension is two years, I believe this matter deserves serious consideration, but your position must match your tolerance for "execution risk". Don't use money you can't afford to lose to wait for a judgment without a certain timeline to materialize.
He finally said: I'll think about it. I said: This is the correct reaction. #night

The deflation logic of NIGHT is different from Bitcoin's halving, but I think it is more suitable for practical networks.
Many people compare NIGHT's deflation mechanism to Bitcoin's halving, believing they operate under the same logic—supply decreases, and prices rise. I think this comparison is inaccurate and can lead to false expectations.
Bitcoin's halving is a hard-coded time-triggered event that occurs every four years, reducing the issuance by half, and the market prices it in advance. NIGHT's design is not like that.
NIGHT's rewards come from the Reserve, with a fixed percentage of the current remaining amount of the Reserve allocated for each block. This means that over time, the amount of NIGHT allocated per block is continuously decreasing—not jumping every four years, but smoothly decreasing with every block.
This mechanism is called "continuous decreasing issuance," resulting in the Reserve theoretically lasting for hundreds of years without being completely exhausted, with a very smooth issuance curve and no sudden supply shocks.
For a project positioned as practical network infrastructure, this logic is more reasonable than Bitcoin's halving. Because you do not want the security incentives of the network to suddenly halve at a specific point in time, as that would create significant uncertainty for node operators. A smoothly decreasing issuance curve allows node operators to better predict long-term returns and make more stable operational decisions.
From the perspective of holders, NIGHT's scarcity is maintained not by a specific time point but by the natural decrease of each block. This does not have the "narrative inflection point" of Bitcoin's halving, but in the long-term logic, it is actually more solid.
You can't speculate on the halving story in the short term, but the long-term holding logic is clearer. It depends on what kind of person you are.
@MidnightNetwork $NIGHT #night