What’s new at Midnight

Catch key announcements from Rare Evo 2025 for the Midnight network. Learn about the Glacier Drop launch, the concept of rational privacy, and the dual-component model (NIGHT/DUST) designed to provide predictable costs for Web3 applications.

After the first week of Glacier Drop, over 1 billion NIGHT tokens have been claimed. Learn about the significance of Glacier Drop for the Midnight network and what comes next.

Fireblocks to offer institutional custody for $NIGHT token, which powers transactions and smart contracts on Midnight—a privacy-first blockchain. This strategic integration advances institutional access to privacy-enabled Web3 infrastructure while ensuring secure, compliant onboarding for enterprises.

Midnight’s privacy-first solutions can be integrated into existing blockchain ecosystems, enabling open participation for individuals, builders, and organizations with rational privacy.

The Glacier Drop portal is now open for claims, find out everything you need to know about the NIGHT token distribution and learn how to claim.

Discover Midnight's July updates including NIGHT token distribution phases and details, new open-source DApps and Compact contracts, ecosystem partnerships, plus updated guides for block producers.

Learn how to become a testnet-02 block producer, including setup for Cardano SPOs, dependency services, and node configuration.

Meet the winners from the Ecosystem Tooling Challenge. Builders created new CLIs, dashboards, and integrations to make building on the ZK ecosystem faster, more powerful, and more accessible for everyone.

Midnight tokenomics and incentives whitepaper was launched ahead of Permissionless IV, outlining a user-first model for fair distribution and rational privacy.