Midnight’s Nightmode Brings Private DeFi Across Chains

0:00 Hi everyone, I've got a massive midnight ecosystem update for you all. Everything that is happening in the midnight ecosystem around privacy, selective disclosure, and all that really good stuff. But first off, before we get into any of that, just a word of warning here. The internet seems to be falling apart at the moment. Vulnerability is being discovered everywhere in every single aspect of our daily lives online.

0:26 So if you're interacting online, just be extra vigilant because things could very well be compromised at the moment. So we don't know how much or how big these compromises are going to be, but it's overall really big. So just be careful guys of what's being going on online at the moment. Now let's get into the news updates around midnight for you guys. So first off, we're looking at the roadmap that has been delivered. So this came out last week and there's a lot of really exciting things coming out. A lot of technical things as well.

0:57 over this quarter Q4 of 2026 and also Q1 of 2027 next year. So let's have a look at some of these things here. You can look at the roadmap website and break down each one of the verticals and see what's coming out for each one of those aspects, everything from night mode to institutional on-chain liquidity and assets.

1:19 Let's have a look at the X thread here, which will take you through each one of these pieces here. So first off, the institutional issuance and settlement. So this is really important because this is where a lot of the on-chain activity is going to come from. This is where blockchain and cryptocurrency is going. So when we see Midnight bring in the required infrastructure for tokenized deposits, stablecoins, RWAs, we're in a really good position. So this is all the things that are needed to bring all this data and on-chain information but also keeping it all private. Now they're doing this also for the retail side of things.

1:57 So people that are doing trading, lending, collateral, liquidity, provisioning, payments, keeping that all private is really important. And they're bringing that all on chain as well with transactions and histories all being shielded. So that's really important, really good to see that retail users aren't being left behind there too.

2:17 The other aspects here is around identity and disclosure there. So we're bringing in the passport SDK that we have access to right now. So if you are building on midnight, you can have access to the passport SDK and start integrating that in. But it's all about proving something without giving someone too much information. So let's say you have your identity, your passport, or your driver's license. You want to prove how old you are, but you don't want to show that person your address where you live. And that's a level of privacy that's quite important. So you go to a nightclub, for example, and you show the bouncer your driver's license. It has all that information there, your name, your birth date, your address. And at a glance,

3:01 the bouncer can go, great, I know exactly where you live and who you are now. When the only thing they should need to know is how old you are and that you are the actual person or holder of that driver's license. So selective disclosure, very important for privacy and protection of the various people that are needing that level of privacy. So we're going to see more of that and we're going to see implementations of that. It's going to be really cool. Next, we have the scaling sovereignty, which is always important that reach cross chain and developer growth.

3:31 So it will make it easier to build these types of daps within the midnight ecosystem across all different chains. And then these two aspects here, star stream and night stream, These two are extremely important in that one, Starstream will allow you to have a consistent runtime environment for applications.

3:50 So you build it within Starstream and work across any chain. So that's really important there for cross-chain compatibility. And then you have the Nightstream side of things, which makes it all quantum proof. Next era of computing is coming and we want to ensure that everything is as safe and secure from quantum computers. they are going to be able to break into a lot of these other chains that aren't quantum proof and having midnight quantum proof is really important.

4:17 So we're going to see that come into play as well with nightstream. So I'm really excited about that. Now, if you want to go further and deeper into the roadmap links down below for you guys, so you can dig into it and learn about what's happening there. Now, the next aspect here is night mode though. They've been talking about this for a little while, but night mode is essentially a switch. that you can toggle within any ecosystem that you're in and have private transactions and selective disclosure.

4:46 So imagine you're using a VPN and you want to protect your internet activity. Whatever you're doing online, no one should actually know what's happening. Your ISP, your internet service provider, shouldn't be tracking that either. So turning on a VPN by toggling a switch hides all that activity. and keeps your online activity private. And I think that's a good thing. Now, to be able to do that within the DeFi space and blockchain space is also going to be really cool.

5:17 So imagine being able to connect your Metamask wallet, your Cardano wallet, whatever it is, and be able to toggle a switch and turn on night mode and have everything that you do from then on private. It may take a little bit longer because it's being routed around through the midnight chain and having all your transactions privatized there.

5:40 But because of that, you have that level of privacy. And to be able to do it this way is really important too because it's just a toggle of a switch. makes that user experience really easy. So this is the type of experience that we're going to see with night mode and bring it onto all sorts of different ecosystems.

5:58 If you want to learn more about it, I'll put a link to this video here by David Miller Durant, the founder of Sig Network, and talking about night mode there as well. Now, you may have seen Charles post this video about Midnight and Tron. Now, this is essentially what you're going to see. So how would you see that today? This is a Tron wallet. You've got that light mode there. Toggle that switch. There we go. And now, whatever you're doing within that wallet is private. VPN for DeFi.

6:29 That's right. So I'm really excited about that whenever it's going to come out. Apparently, this will be ready for Tron December this year. So about a month and a half from the recording of this video. So stay tuned, guys. We're in for a very interesting update with Night Mode and what it's going to bring to the entire cryptocurrency space. Now, if you want to learn more about it as well, I've got this blog post here that you can read into Night Mode, how it works and all that stuff.

6:57 So do check that out, too. Now, the next one here I want to talk about is Dynamics by Fireblocks and this partnership between Midnight and Dynamic. Now, Dynamic is an integration of non-custodial wallet infrastructure and what it delivers for Midnight. Now, if you are using various dApps, applications, whatever it is, you may see something really simple as in login with Google or login with Facebook or login with Microsoft, whatever it is. That's called single sign-on, and it's made the logging into various websites really easy with one click. And if you're already logged into your Gmail account, your Google account, it will log you into this application, that website, whatever you're using, within a couple of clicks.

7:44 And you don't need to create a brand new password or an account or anything. It just shares it from Google over to the application that you're logging into. So it makes it really easy. Now, that same experience is what you can get within the crypto and DeFi space. So you log in with your Metamask wallet, you log in with your Cardano wallet, and it gives up just your public key, which you can see on chain anyway, and uses that as your identification. And then your signing password, which you sign on your side, on the client side, will allow you to log into that particular application with your wallet. So this brings in... A whole lot of integrations that are available to all these different ecosystems. So

8:28 Dynamic works across the EVM space, Solana, Bitcoin, Stellar, Sui, Ton, and Allo. So all that is automatically enabled with this integration with Dynamics and Fireblocks. So this partnership with Fireblocks that happened this year has opened up so many doors for the Midnight ecosystem as not just Midnight, Cardano is taking advantage of that as well because they paid for the integration with Fireblocks. So we're going to see more and more cross-chain compatibility because of all that. Now, why didn't it exist before? I think it all came down to cost and who was going to pay for the integration. Now, with a lot of the other chains here, the EVM space, Solana, Bitcoin, et cetera, et cetera, they have massive amount of users.

9:14 So for Fireblocks to not integrate them, would be at their disadvantage. But the Kadana ecosystem is smaller. It's isolated and it's only itself. For example, like the EVM space is a replication of itself and is multiplied across multiple different chains. So integrating one EVM chain, which means you integrate all of them. So that's why EVM had first preference because it had the most reach. But with the Kadana side of things, with Midnight side of things, we have to pay to play. And as a result, we had to fork out more money to actually get integrated in.

9:51 But as a result, we now have a lot more cross-chain compatibility with this login with Midnight capability now. So because of that... we can now integrate in with Solana, Bitcoin, Stellar, Sui, and any other EVM chain out there. Ton, or even Tron, I'm assuming, is integrated in there as well. So we're going to see more of that, and we're going to see more chains come in and say, hey, this midnight thing.

10:15 How do we integrate it? Oh, it's already integrated with Dynamics. All we have to do is turn it on as an option within Fireblocks. And there we go. So really good partnership there. And that's why it's so important to get more of these partnerships, even if we do have to pay for them to be able to get this cross-chain compatibility. Now, this one here I thought was quite important.

10:36 And this is the presentation that Farme did at Token 2049. So there was a lot of really cool stuff that came out of this presentation. I already talked about the collateral warehouse in one of my previous videos, and we talked about Midnight Passport, AI agents, and all that stuff. But he also talks about night mode, offer files, and the Midnight Roadmap as well. So if you want to get a rundown about his presentation here at Token 2049, links down below in the show notes for you guys.

11:06 Do check it out. Do watch it. It will give you a really quick summary, and it's only 16 minutes long. Okay? So do watch that video. Now, the last one here I have for you guys is a brand new campaign that is coming out from the Midnight team, and this is Freedom Fighters. This is all about Leopoldo Lopez and his quest for democracy in Venezuela. So Venezuela is descending into an autocracy and his years of imprisonment and a fight to protect freedom. So it talks about his fight for freedom in Venezuela and what Midnight could possibly bring in terms of privacy for its users. and challenging autocracies around the world. So this is a very, very broad view of what selective disclosure, what midnight and what privacy

11:55 can actually bring to help users within the democratic space. So if you want to watch that, it's online at the moment. You can watch all the episodes there. It's got episode one. I'm wondering if they are releasing each episode sequentially over time. No, it's online now. So you can watch all those episodes. Again, I'll put links down below for you guys. You can watch it. They aren't very long episodes, but you can go through episode one to four, binge watch them. But you can watch all the videos and learn about Leopoldo's fight for freedom and democracy in Venezuela. All right, guys, that's all I have for this particular video update. If you liked it, make sure you hit that thumbs up, like, subscribe, notification bell

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13:14 down below. Maybe not Ledger at the moment, but Keystone is definitely a really good wallet. So do check that one out. Try and stay positive, guys. I'll see you in the next video.