Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson Pitches Midnight as a Privacy Layer for Bitcoin and XRP

Charles Hoskinson is pitching his latest venture, Midnight Protocol, as more than a sidechain for Cardano. Instead, the Cardano founder is positioning the privacy-focused platform as a shared infrastructure layer that could extend programmable privacy to rival blockchain networks, including Bitcoin and the XRP Ledger. Hoskinson Moves Beyond Cardano With a Cross-Chain Privacy Play In a December 27 post on X, Hoskinson argued that Midnight’s zero-knowledge proof architecture could enhance the capabilities of competing ecosystems rather than displace them. He said that integrating Midnight with the XRP Ledger would allow the network to challenge legacy banking systems by enabling private, compliant decentralized finance source: https://beincrypto.com/cardanos-hoskinson-targets-bitcoin-and-xrp-for-midnight/