Cardano has become the latest member of the Linux Foundation Confederation of Confidential Computing (CCC), a move that will position open source blockchain alongside heavyweights like Microsoft and Amazon in a fast-growing market for hardware-based data protection standards. The announcement came in a consensus-based “midnight stall” Fireside chat, Charles Hoskinson, CEO of the IO of Midnight Development Company and how the confidentiality calculations of Midnight will anchor Cardano Cardano’s Privacy-First Sidechain, Midnight explains how the confidentiality calculations of Midnight will outline how it outlines.
“You know, we just joined the Confidential Computing Alliance for Linux Foundation, and we use Nitro with Microsoft and Amazon. They’re talking about confidential computing and trusted hardware enclaves, as well as GPUs, and GPUs, for outsourcing AI data,” Hoskinson told the audience. CCC sets cross-industry specifications based on enclave-based security; its membership indicates Cardano intends to align Midnight’s zero-knowledge roll-up and decentralized identity locators (DIDs) with emerging hardware standards rather than relying solely on purely cryptographic shields.
So, basically, midnight can click on all these different things, it enables you to reason and think about how I share, who I share with, what I have, what I have, what they have, what the semantic value of the data I carved is, and then what kind of market is, and how I become my economic agent in that market, I’m actually in what I’m giving, I’m actually in what I’m saying, I can only share my scope, I can be the opposite of me, and it’s everything I give, I can be like what I’m mastering. Get it,” Hoskinson added.
Cardano’s next step in secure blockchain
Hoskinson traces the origins of midnight to the “Tel Aviv Bar” during the European Union in 2018, describing the late-night debate about zero-knowledge proofs, and ultimately matures into a side chain, combining a programmable Stark-based execution engine (“kachina”), “kachina” (Kachina) is a dual economic model (for government and “dust for “duster”), and chose “snacks” and chose “snacks” and chose “snacks” paint. However, according to Barack, technical creativity alone is not enough. Corporate adoption depends on the trust of the hardware roots. Confidential computing provides the last layer, he said.
“When you think about protecting data, you really need to think about two parts – protecting the data itself and protecting the metadata,” Barack explained. “Midnight hopes to be the structure that allows AI to access personal private data in the right way that does not infringe on our rights.” By joining the CCC, Cardano obtained a seat on the table, and these fabric lines were braided into chipset specifications, enclave proof protocols and open source reference codes.
Much of the entire meeting was focused on the midnight two-country design that separates volatile, value-ac governance (“Knight”) from stable, non-particle capacity units (“Dust”). Hoskinson argues that split consensus incentives for charging predictability evade what tension regulators see in completely blocked currencies such as Monero. “You get the cake, too, and it can be eaten… Developers can pay in Bitcoin, Ether or Solana through capacity exchange, and the end user doesn’t notice that they are using other systems.”
Confidential computing extends this logic to the hardware layer. The enclave sealing execution protects wallet keys, zero-knowledge circuits, and registers from side channel attacks, while satisfying the auditor’s cryptographic proof to ensure conditional embedded in the smart contract template. “Selective disclosure is absolutely necessary,” Hoskinson told the questioner, raising concerns about compliance. “You bake the disclosure at the smart contract level and then let the exchange decide its applicability guidelines based on the circumstances.”
As the conversation turned to marking real-world assets, Cardano’s CCC membership arrived – once small caps and border market issuers joined, today’s Hoskinson was priced at “ten plus trillions” and “one trillions.” He insisted that midnight must interoperate with two traditional venues, including the New York Stock Exchange and the on-chain liquidity pool. Hardware-verified privacy makes the bridge trustworthy. “You want broker dealers, compliance, circuit breakers, but you also need something like blockchain … Having an infrastructure like Midnight is the only way to really do that,” he said.
Barak reported over 2,000 early builders in midnight’s testnet, from dark pool prototypes and medical record pilots to carbon letter of credit for jet engines. Since the code and status are encrypted, the IO’s own developer relationship team cannot check what is being deployed; the team only volunteers information in the opt-in call. “I think if we end up bringing blockchain technology that contains the privacy elements that businesses need, then innovation is incredible,” Barack said.
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