What is Midnight (NIGHT)?

Deep Dive

1. Purpose and technology

Midnight aims to give developers selective disclosure: an app can confirm something is true—such as a user meeting an eligibility rule—without revealing the personal information behind it. It uses zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic method for checking validity without disclosing the underlying data.

Midnight is an independent blockchain connected to Cardano as a partner chain, rather than a Cardano layer 2. It has its own ledger and smart-contract environment. CMC’s overview

2. NIGHT’s role

NIGHT is public and transferable; it is not spent directly on transaction fees. Holding NIGHT generates DUST, a private, non-transferable resource consumed for transactions and smart-contract operations. Separating the token from the fee resource is intended to make network costs less directly dependent on NIGHT’s market price. CMC’s token guide

Conclusion

Midnight is privacy infrastructure for blockchain applications, and NIGHT supports its network through DUST generation. How effectively can developers use its privacy tools to build practical apps?