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JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "we created Midnight City because if we're successful with $NIGHT, it's hard to see it, it's a privacy coin, so we wanted to create something where you can see something and can interact with the network in a very human way."

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "Midnight City will be the 1st place that we deploy Nightstream on, which is our lattice-based folding system. It'll be the 1st implementation of a lattice-based folding system at scale to be put into a production network."

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JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson on Midnight City, says "every agent has a place, it has a purpose. It's a beautiful little world, it's open to everyone, it's powered by Midnight. It can do thousands of transactions every second." $NIGHT

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson on Midnight City, says "you'll see transactions happening in real-time. These agents are quite unpredictable. They talk to each other, they have jobs, they live in various places, and they transact with each other."

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