Day 2 of the Midnight Hackathon in Buenos Aires is underway, with the winners set to be announced shortly. The Midnight Foundation (@midnightfdn) team shared some remarkable figures from the event: ⚫️ 87 hackers ⚫️ 59 participants new to the Midnight ecosystem ⚫️ 26 projects developed ⚫️ 100% code compilation rate, achieved for the first time at a Midnight event A strong milestone for the ecosystem and a great demonstration of the growing developer interest and technical talent around Midnight.

What makes Midnight different? Most networks burn or spend their native token to power transactions. Midnight doesn't. NIGHT generates DUST. DUST is the renewable network resource that powers transactions, while NIGHT remains the network's native utility and governance token. It's a different approach to network economics designed for predictable costs, preserved governance, and programmable privacy. Here's how it works. 👇

Amazing @MidnightNtwrk hackathon in Buenos Aires! 🇦🇷 It was great to connect with the community once again at this event organized by the Midnight Foundation (@midnightfdn) in collaboration with ETH Latam (@ethlatam), with the goal of bringing new developers into the ecosystem. It was also a pleasure to welcome our friends from the Midnight Foundation to Argentina: Alex Castillo, Jay Albert, Tom Humber, and Daniel Marquez. Vamos Argentina! 🕛⚫️

Midnight's momentum across LATAM this August is impressive. This August, @MidnightNtwrk is heading across LATAM, taking part in some of the region's premier blockchain events. Midnight is investing in the region through a series of ecosystem activations, including: 🇧🇷 (August 12-13), where Midnight joins as a Gold Sponsor, connecting with builders, founders, developers, and the broader Web3 community in Rio de Janeiro to showcase what's possible with programmable privacy. 🇦🇷 Hack Buenos Aires (August 7-8), the official Midnight hackathon, bringing together developers from across LATAM to build privacy-first applications. 🇦🇷 Midnight Connect Buenos Aires (August 18), an opportunity for builders, entrepreneurs, and community members to explore the Midnight ecosystem, connect with the team, and discover new ways to get involved. LATAM continues to be one of the fastest-growing regions for blockchain innovation, and the team is looking forward to meeting the people building what's next. 📍 If you're attending any of these events, be sure to connect and stop by.

Honored to be named a Cardano Ambassador for the United States. 🇺🇸 Huge thanks to @Cardano and @Cardano_CF for the trust. I've believed in this ecosystem for years, and I can't wait to help it grow here at home. More music. More building. More onchain.

Sometimes I forget to share what happens behind the scenes, but the truth is that I genuinely have a lot of fun at work. This clip is part of the behind the scenes footage from the promotional video we filmed for the RWA Leaders Kickoff, together with Blockenfy, Input Output, and other leaders from across the industry. I like it because it captures what working together is really like: plenty of laughs, spontaneous jokes, and a team that supports you and makes everything feel natural. At the same time, when it’s time to deliver the message, everyone comes together to communicate with clarity, leadership, and professionalism, even seamlessly switching between languages and speaking English naturally. I believe that balance between professionalism and a great team culture is something worth sharing. This video made me smile, so I wanted to share it with all of you.

"Agentic Commerce Needs Legal Infrastructure: A Case Study on Midnight City" I just made a LinkedIn post about a document that really caught my interest. Over the past few days I've been working with Luciano Oliva Bianco on one of the least discussed and most urgent problems in agentic commerce: what happens legally when two AI agents negotiate and close a transaction with no human in the loop? In "Agentic Commerce Needs Legal Infrastructure: A Case Study on Midnight City," we explore how the Legal Context Protocol (LCP) can give these transactions something they don't have today: a verifiable cryptographic record of the agreed terms, bound to the payment, and auditable afterward by either party, a court, or a regulator. The piece covers three areas: The legal diagnosis: which existing doctrines (ratification, consumer protection, liability cascades) are already poorly suited to a world of agents acting at machine scale. A framework of our own, the "Trust in Depth Framework," proposing layers of human identity, entity attestation, agreement integrity, and agent authorization. A concrete technical roadmap for implementing this on Midnight, leveraging its privacy architecture (selective disclosure, on chain settlement). One thing that mattered to me in closing the analysis: not everything cuts one way. We added a final section dedicated to the real limits and risks of the approach, including that "provable" is not the same as "enforceable," that standard adoption is never guaranteed, and that jurisdiction by jurisdiction regulatory uncertainty is real. A technical legal analysis is only useful if it's also willing to say where it can fail. If you work in compliance, Web3, or agentic commerce, I'd love to hear your take. #AgenticCommerce# #Web3# #LegalTech# #Midnight# #Compliance#

It looks like August will be Midnight's month in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 From the 7th to the 8th, there will be a Hackathon in Palermo organized by the Midnight Foundation, aimed at getting developers to compete and encouraging them to join the conversation around Midnight. On August 18th, Midnight Connect will take place in Puerto Madero, to talk about how the Midnight Network works, and to tell startups from the Build Club, NightSky program, Midnight City, and NightForce Leaders about it — teaching people how to work within the ecosystem of this privacy-focused zk blockchain. A set of interesting activities are unfolding in Buenos Aires this August. Come and be part of the #Midnight# ecosystem.

Midnight Connect in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 @MidnightNtwrk is bringing builders, devs & founders together to explore the future of programmable privacy. 📅 Aug 18th at the IO Office in Buenos Aires. 200+ already in. Come build with us 👇

This is a photo I truly value. 💙 It brings together representatives from the Cardano Foundation, IOG, Cardano ecosystem projects, and both Midnight and Cardano Ambassadors, all collaborating to teach students at the University of Zurich about the ecosystem. It is meaningful to see so many different parts of the ecosystem working together toward a common goal: education. Moments like this reflect the value of collaboration and the collective effort to support the next generation of builders, researchers, and professionals. I am grateful to have been part of it.

Midnight: selective disclosure, smart compliance, and rational privacy. 🕛⚫️ Today I return home, to my university and the place where I studied. Invited by our partners at Binance Argentina (@BinanceArg), I will be speaking with young students about Midnight (@MidnightNtwrk) and exploring some of the most fascinating concepts emerging in the blockchain industry. Inspired by the speeches of Charles (@IOHK_Charles), “the triangle man,” I will be participating in a panel discussion about privacy enhancing technologies and this new concept of smart compliance. See you today at the National University of La Plata.

Focus Group on Lace Mobile 🟣 The community is extremely important, and ultimately, they are the first end users. Their feedback is truly invaluable. That is why, together with the Lace Mobile engineering team in Argentina, we will be bringing the community together on June 17th at the Input Output offices to collaboratively gather ideas, suggestions, and improvements aimed at enhancing the user experience, while also evaluating the impact and feasibility of each proposal. Listening to users is, ultimately, a fundamental principle that must continue to drive innovation forward. We look forward to hearing your ideas and implementing them.