Massive #Cardano news update from @TOKEN2049 🇸🇬 Hacked Ledger devices are turning up worldwide, and now Trezor devices too. If you didn't buy yours directly, consider it tampered with. Full video on YouTube, link in bio. What's in it: ✅130 of the 200 devs at the Origins Hackathon submitted to the Cardano track ✅ FluidTokens has merged with Minswap ✅ Veridian spins out of the Cardano Foundation ✅ Fireblocks brings institutional custody to Cardano ✅ The .ada domain application moves to the next ICANN phase ✅ Butane Synthetics V2 is live on testnet ✅ The hardware wallets I'm using right now Cardano's big #TOKEN2049 push (the booth, the UTXO Pitch Night and the Origins Hackathon) was paid for by a treasury withdrawal. Was it worth the money? Tell me below. Disclosure: I hold the title of Cardano Ambassador (currently unpaid). The Midnight Foundation paid for my attendance at TOKEN2049. Here is a teaser 👇

The @MidnightNtwrk team had a massive #Token2049 week, and many updates are starting to feel less like future roadmap talk and more like things going live. In this video, I go through what changed, what was announced, and what I saw on the ground in Singapore. Timestamps: 0:00 Midnight mainnet opens up 1:39 Solana privacy support 3:26 NIGHT access in Japan 4:48 Collateral warehouse use case 8:12 Midnight Ambassador network 12:16 Midnight City and AI agents 15:14 Token2049 side events 17:32 Startup pitches on Midnight 19:56 Tokyo activation 21:07 Hokan escrow plans 22:10 Chatsoon event CRM 23:43 Wrap up and next updates The big one for builders is permissionless smart contract deployment. Before this, deploying on the Midnight mainnet required extra checks and gates. Sensible early on, but also a bottleneck. Now builders can deploy directly, and we’re already seeing mainnet activity pick up. There's also the @solana angle. Making Midnight privacy available through existing Solana wallets is interesting because it lowers friction. Users should not have to install a whole new stack just to access private swaps or private DeFi flows. Then there's Japan. NIGHT access through @OKCoinJapan is a useful step, especially given how much long-term Cardano support Japan has provided over the years. The Collateral Warehouse example was probably the most practical enterprise-style use case from the week. ✅ Private asset movement. ✅ Private trading flows. ✅ Compliance proofs when needed. That is the difference I keep coming back to with Midnight. It is not just "hide everything". It is programmable privacy, with selective proof where it actually makes sense. The @MidnightCitySim stuff was a bit more theatrical, but I think that was the point. AI agents, passports, rentable trading strategies, agents "hiring" humans to walk Token2049. Some of it looks gimmicky at first, but underneath it is a useful way to show how agents, identity, private execution and payments could fit together. I also talk about the ambassador side of the event, the Singapore activations, the Tokyo follow-up, and a few teams building around Midnight that caught my attention. And at the end, I give a quick update on what I’m building with @UseHokan and @ChatSoonApp after testing a few ideas at the event.

After years of going to events and workshops with @IOHK_Charles this is my first selfie with the guy Good to see you again Charles. Hope you can rest for a bit before the next event.

We’re ready. Me and @LearnMidnight Singapore @token2049 bound. Here we come!

While on the plane ✈️ to #Token2049 🇸🇬, I finished a presentation about Gov blockchain transformation. I'll do a vid about this next week. Also released a language update for @chatsoonapp. It now supports, simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese. Zero rest days. 💪

You can now apply custom branding to your @ChatSoonApp profile. Add a background, upload a logo, and change the background and accent colours. Make your profile YOURS! Free feature for BETA testers and Founding members.

I started a referral program for @ChatSoonApp First 100 people that hit the target of 10 referrals become founding members. chatsoon.app/r/TN267SWN

🔥New video is up: Cardano and Midnight Are Getting More Usable This week was packed across @Cardano and @MidnightNtwrk. I cover @alphagrowth1, @emurgo_iostake pools, @secondfiapp recovery, @ODATANO_V4, @ChatSoonApp, ADA agent payment flows, @Noctis_Zone, Midnight at Token2049, @FCBarcelona Fan Lab, @FireblocksHQ, @Catalyst_onX Pilot 2026, Cardano Venture Hub, and the k parameter debate. Full timestamps: 0:00 Cardano and Midnight week 0:30 Alpha Growth RFP 1:10 EMURGO stake pools moving to Shunsuke Murasaki 3:21 SecondFi recovery update, staking rewards and Midnight claim questions 6:02 ODATANO, Max Weber and Cardano/Midnight API tooling 9:03 Chatsoon testing, contact scanning, follow-ups and privacy identity ideas 13:01 ADA agent payment flows and where small software payments could fit 14:25 Noctis launchpad and private token launches on Midnight-style rails 16:56 Midnight at Token2049 17:54 Barça Fan Lab and Cardano user-facing experiments 21:10 Fireblocks support for Cardano Native Tokens 23:31 Catalyst Pilot 2026 teams across stablecoins, payments, lending, identity, healthcare and supply chains 27:23 Cardano Venture Hub and the next builder cohort 29:26 K parameter debate, k=500 to k=1000, small SPOs and ADAOZ delegators 34:43 Wrap up A lot is happening at once, but the common theme is usability. Better custody, better APIs, better recovery paths, better apps, better builder support and more real users.

New @AnthropicAI Opus 5.5 is truely impressive. 👏 Asked it to generate a 15sec explainer animation of my new app @ChatSoonApp. Pure HTML/CSS/JS. Retained 100 page speed score and web accessibility. One shot prompt on ultracode. Brilliant job.

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