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Midnight Updates

Get Scavenging!

In case you missed the news the Midnight scavenger hunt is now underway, and it’s off to a roaring start. What a start. 🧩 In just the first 12 hours of Scavenger Mine, over 3.2 million solutions have been submitted — a massive show of participation and belief in what we’re building together with @MidnightNtwrk.…

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Cardano Updates

x402 25 years later…

You probably forgot about HTTP 402 Payment Required nestling between HTTP 401 Unauthorised, and 403 Access forbidden. We did. But now it’s getting resurrected for the crypto age and it may be the payment rails we’ve been waiting for. x402 is an open-source payment protocol developed by Coinbase in 2025, designed to enable instant, automated…

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Cardano Updates

Sustainability

The Cardano Foundation have been focussed on sustainability applications for blockchains for some time with a number of pilots up and running. They’ve got a cool clip with a very strong brand identity, that captures some of the applications they have been exploring. They note: Today’s businesses face rising sustainability demands. As the focus on…

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Midnight Updates

Ctrl Wallet partners with Midnight

Another Midnight partnership just announced. These are rolling in at pace which is definitely good news if you have collected those $NIGHT tokens from the first phase of the Glacier Drop. 📣 PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT We’re excited to announce a new partnership with @MidnightNtwrk! Bringing $NIGHT to Ctrl Wallet so our community can enjoy stronger privacy,…

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Cardano Updates

Hydra v1 release

There’s a comprehensive update on the IOG blog covering the v1 release of Hydra, which enables a copy of the main ledger state to be modified among selected participants in a state channel or head. The hydra head allows fast and low cost transactions that can be periodically settled (or flushed) back to the Cardano…