What’s new at Midnight

Meet the Aliit: Midnight’s inaugural technical fellowship. Discover the global builders in Cohort 0 shaping the future of programmable privacy and Web3.

The Midnight Foundation presents The History of Secrets, an animated short charting the evolution of cryptography from 1500 BCE to the post-quantum future. This series is an accessible entryway for anyone to learn the fundamentals of cryptography.

NIGHT is live on Cardano. Explore the Hilo roadmap phase, understand the Glacier Drop thawing schedule, and follow the guide to collect your allocation.

November 2025 update: Scavenger mine recap, NIGHT token distribution, Midnight Summit, hackathon, and more.

Project Catalyst serves as Cardano’s decentralized grant mechanism, and for the first time, Catalyst includes a dedicated category for Midnight Compact DApps

The "opt-in by default" model exposes too much personal data. Learn about rational privacy, a new approach using programmable tools and selective disclosure.

Financed by the Midnight Foundation, the new fund track will help developers create open-source DApps that drive adoption and demonstrate real-world applications of privacy technology on the Midnight network.

October 2025 update: Over 3.5B NIGHT tokens claimed, new partnerships, record-breaking hackathon activity, and Scavenger Mine launch details.

Midnight Foundation partners with Alchemy, Anastasia Labs, BitGo, Blockdaemon, Input Output Engineering and SundaeLabs to scale Glacier Drop distribution. Partners will operate Hydra Heads for a fast, secure, and scalable token distribution.