- The Midnight Foundation has
signed a definitive agreement with AlphaTON Capital to
integrate its zero-knowledge blockchain into the TON
ecosystem.
- The partnership will enable
privacy-preserving AI agents on Telegram through “Cocoon
AI,” allowing users to keep financial and personal data
confidential.
- The native NIGHT token fell 5.7% in the last 24 hours to
$0.058, amid a broader cooling period for privacy-centric assets.
Midnight, the privacy-focused blockchain developed
by Input Output and Charles Hoskinson, is
moving to capture Telegram’s massive user base through a strategic
partnership with AlphaTON Capital. The agreement,
announced this week, marks the first-to-market integration of a
zero-knowledge (ZK) blockchain with the TON
ecosystem. The collaboration aims to provide a “privacy layer”
for Telegram’s emerging AI infrastructure, specifically the Cocoon
AI platform, which facilitates automated tasks like shopping and
financial management.
Under the terms of the deal, AlphaTON Capital
will operate one of Midnight’s ten federated nodes,
providing the computational backbone for decentralized, privacy-first AI. The integration leverages Midnight’s programmable privacy
features, ensuring that while AI agents process user requests, the
underlying messages, credentials, and financial metadata remain invisible
to third parties, including Telegram and the developers themselves. This
move comes as Midnight enters its Kūkolu phase, a
development milestone signifying a stable network environment for
decentralized applications (dApps).
Despite the
high-profile partnership, the project’s native token,
NIGHT, has faced short-term sell pressure. At the time of
writing, NIGHT is trading at approximately $0.058, down
nearly 6% over the past 24 hours. This decline follows a volatile week for
the privacy sector, where established assets like Monero
(XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) have also seen pullbacks. However, the token recently gained significant liquidity through a listing
on the social trading platform eToro, which expanded
access to over 35 million registered users.
“The next great leap
for the internet isn’t more speed or more content, it’s the restoration of
personal agency,” said Charles Hoskinson, founder of
Midnight. “Utility should not come at the expense of privacy, and this
integration demonstrates that ZK-proofs can scale to meet the demands of a
billion-user ecosystem.”
Looking ahead, the Midnight roadmap
includes the Mōhalu and Hua phases
scheduled for the second and third quarters of 2026. these updates are
expected to introduce hybrid dApps, which will allow
Midnight’s privacy features to be embedded into other chains, including
Cardano and Ethereum, further expanding
the utility of the NIGHT token beyond the TON
integration.
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