Whitepapers

Research from the Midnight community

Learn more about Midnight’s technology and explore its technical, financial, and business applications through regular whitepaper contributions from engineers, industry leaders, and community contributors.

December 01 2025

Midnight Tokenomics and Incentives

The Midnight Tokenomics and Incentives whitepaper describes the novel functions, utilities, and properties of NIGHT, Midnight's native utility token, and DUST, the network resource used to pay for transaction fees.

It also describes Midnight's approach to incentives and the cooperative tokenomics for multi-chain access and participation. Lastly, the NIGHT distribution mechanisms and token allocation are described as part of the Midnight Glacier Drop.

Whitepaper: Midnight Tokenomics and Incentives
September 16 2024

Nightpaper: A litepaper introducing Midnight

Midnight is a new generation of blockchain technology. It enables apps that protect user, commercial, and transaction metadata. Its zero-knowledge (“ZK”) proofs offer utility without compromising data protection or ownership.

This is an introduction on how Midnight can remove the barriers preventing organizations and service providers from leveraging blockchain technology and resolves the business challenge of choosing between data protection, ownership, and utilization.

Nightpaper: A litepaper introducing Midnight