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JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says with Midnight $NIGHT, "we can do private Bitcoin swaps."

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "we worked with David Schwartz to figure out how to do the $NIGHT airdrop to $XRP, and XRP can be XRP, but now they can do private smart contracts and all these other things as a consequence of the existence of Midnight."

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "I had dinner with Lily Liu (Solana Foundation President). We talked about Solana and actually found common ground. We airdropped $NIGHT to Solana, and there's a lot of Solana applications we think we can do something with."

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "Midnight City already uses some partners. We have Microsoft Azure running Midnight City with confidential compute, so all the transactions are actually in trusted attestation. We're layering privacy technology there." $NIGHT

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "with mainnet at the end of March, Google is one of the nodes, a very stable basis upon which we can rapidly deploy." $NIGHT