Cardano & Midnight educator | Hydra, Mithril, Babel Fees, Djed + Midnight privacy (NIGHT/DUST). Technical threads, real utility, no hype. Not financial advice
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Deep thoughts by Kneeco!
What if AI doesn’t just redistribute today’s scarce resources… but completely changes what we even need?
Fusion energy, asteroid mining, smart materials—suddenly oil, rare metals, even land stop being the bottlenecks.
Riches shift from stuff to ideas, creativity, and new frontiers.
We’re not stuck slicing the same old pie. The pie itself transforms.
Scarcity moves… but it doesn’t have to rule us.
This is my prayer also. What do you think—could this reshape how we define wealth forever?
#AI #FutureOfWealth #AbundanceMindset @ArmyofSpies @LifeIsFunThankU
🤖 Made with AI
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No.
There is no freeze button. It is a standard for allowing token issuers to create tokens that are programmable. The issuer defines the program. The standard itself doesn't have any concept of "freezing", it simply allows tokens to have custom defined behavior. This could be automated vesting, auto-rebalancing collateral assets, etc.
This is not regulatory pandering, it is freedom, the freedom for individuals, teams, and anyone to design and release tokens that behave in whatever ways their imagination can conceive, and more importantly, in any way that suits their use-case.
Cardano just introduced something crypto purists might hate... a freeze button.
CIP-0113 lets issuers freeze, seize and restrict regulated tokens. Switzerland's CMTA has already recognized its tokenized-share implementation.
$ADA is building what Wall Street wants. The question is whether crypto holders want it too.
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The world is actually the best it's ever been and it's getting better every day. We're all just overdosing our brains with negative information & not seeing the bigger picture. There's a million reasons to be positive right now.
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Giving you more reason to understand why institutions are choosing Midnight $NIGHT over any other privacy chain.
Bitcoin $BTC dropped to 77k, Midnight bounced higher. Feel free to browse yourself.
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After decades of studying human behavior, here are my 12 favorite go-to body language behaviors I rely on the most and everyone should know. youtu.be/a1vLFj8AMks
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My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
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So today a $200 million dollar privacy layer blockchain vaporized that was founded or funded by Sequoia, Electric Capital, a16z… etc… the usual shitcoin culprits who are fckn up everything about crypto
The bottom is nigh folks, hang in there 💪
Later today, we are officially ending all remaining support for the Iron Fish network.
A few days ago, we observed abnormal activity involving wIRON and the ChainPort bridge. After working with ChainPort and reviewing their logs, we discovered that the cause was an inflation bug in the Iron Fish blockchain itself.
We traced the bug to a commit from early 2019 in the Merkle tree implementation. The developer at the time implemented a standard Merkle tree. However, because of nuances in how a note’s nullifier is calculated (the mechanism that lets a normal user spend their funds), the attacker was able to spend the same note more than once.
The attacker then compounded the exploit, aggregated their notes, and exited through the ChainPort bridge. This code path was within the scope of both our external and internal audits, but the bug wasn’t caught during review.
For closure, we’ve committed the patch for the exploit, with a detailed postmortem included in the PR, before shutting down and archiving the ironfish repo.
The meta-analysis here is that software that can’t be upgraded immediately (most of crypto), is in an extremely precarious position. The ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities in technically complex code is becoming commoditized. Safety guardrails on US frontier models make it difficult for companies to use them to patch security vulnerabilities, while abliterated open-source models are approaching frontier capabilities.
We wish everyone all the best, and we hope crypto finds a path through this.
Thank you all.
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🚨 Charles Hoskinson has shared an analysis of the Binance wallet attack, bringing fresh attention to one of crypto’s biggest challenges: security.
What happened, and what questions does the incident raise for the industry?
Read the full story 👇
songmarketcap.com/cardanonew…
#Cardano #Binance #CryptoSecurity $ADA
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On #MidnightCity
You’re in control of your AI Agent!
🤖 Choose how you want to set it up:
✨ Hosted Agent ✨ Self-hosted Agent
Two ways to have your AI Agent!
YOU DECIDE! 😉
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Private proof of stake seems a lot more important in the current AI era
You just can't afford to let people know which holders and block producers to attack
This is why I Cardano and Midnight!!
Power to the people and peer-reviewed, research-driven protocols!
From today’s Binance hack, no $ADA or $NIGHT tokens were stolen.
And for a good reason:
- The attackers compromised a hot wallet key and an internal signing service, the same class of breach that has drained other exchanges before. But the ADA and NIGHT balances were not sitting in a simple account style hot wallet. They were held in a Cardano multi signature script (eUTxO) that required an additional on chain authorization from a separate, air gapped key controlled by a different team, plus a timelock that only released after a short challenge window.
- Midnight’s privacy layer added a second practical obstacle: the precise amounts and destination addresses were shielded with zk proofs. The attackers could see that “some” assets existed, but they could not confirm exact balances or craft a clean withdrawal transaction without generating valid selective disclosure proofs they did not possess. By the time they realized the funds were not freely spendable under the compromised key, the internal response team had already rotated the remaining signers and frozen the script.
- The only assets that left the platform were tokens that relied purely on centralized hot wallet controls. ADA and NIGHT stayed put because their movement was gated by on chain script conditions and privacy constraints that the stolen credentials alone could not satisfy.
In short: the keys were compromised, the script conditions and zk requirements were not.
It matters!!
CT spent years clowning Charles and Cardano for obsessing over formal verification.
Now look at all these crypto hacks and the latest Binance drama 💀
Makes you wonder how safe $NIGHT really is.
Turns out building Cardano and Midnight with security in mind from day one might actually matter.
$NIGHT $ADA
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NBC "Meet The Press," you are losing credibility by mislabeling me which deceives your audience. I am a journalist & I am fighting for first amendment principles that even protect you. Fix your headlines.
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My entire life is focused on AI.
And there's no doubt it's creating massive opportunities across the board.
But at the same time, isn't it a little bit sad?
Skills people have honed for decades wiped out overnight.
Every creative industry (film, content, art, music) is being commoditised.
The art of thinking and writing being abstracted.
Yes, I understand the counter argument that's being pushed by the top stakeholders (AI does all the work, humans enjoy an era of abundance) - I genuinely hope that's the case.
But I still find it a tad melancholic.
Anyway, back to prompting.
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🚨 SCAM WEBSITE WARNING 🚨
A fraudulent website, vyfi(dot)site, is impersonating VyFinance and promoting fake rewards.
⚠️ This website is NOT affiliated with VyFi.
Our official platform is app.vyfi.io
Always verify URLs before connecting your wallet or signing transactions.
Stay safe!
Watch out for a VyFi lookalike.
A site called vyfi(dot)site ('VYFI Reward Event') showed up in my search claiming a 12.31% VYFI rate. It isn't VyFi's official address.
Only use app.vyfi.io, typed in yourself. I didn't open it.
How can we have this vyfi(.)site taken down?
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So, as part of my daily routine, I log into Midnight.City and notice that something really interesting is going on... 👀
I immediately rushed to tell my friends 😂
I just hope I’m not imagining things 😅🫣
Watch out for a VyFi lookalike.
A site called vyfi(dot)site ('VYFI Reward Event') showed up in my search claiming a 12.31% VYFI rate. It isn't VyFi's official address.
Only use app.vyfi.io, typed in yourself. I didn't open it.
How can we have this vyfi(.)site taken down?
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MIDNIGHT just hit 1 MILLION transactions! 🚀
🚨BREAKING: MIDNIGHT MAINNET SURPASSES 1 MILLION TRANSACTIONS!
A major milestone for the @MidnightNtwrk ecosystem! 🎉
According to Midnight Explorer, Mainnet has now recorded over 1,019,963 transactions.
📈 Daily transactions tell an even bigger story:
• Sep 27: 128 transactions
• Oct 26: 47,714 transactions
That's a 372x increase in daily activity in just one month! 🔥
A remarkable sign of growing on-chain activity as Midnight's privacy-first ecosystem continues to evolve.
