Hoskinson proposes integrating Midnight with Bitcoin and XRP Ledger

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has proposed integrating his latest project, the Midnight Protocol, with blockchains such as Bitcoin and XRP Ledger.

In a December 27 jobHoskinson argued that the platform’s privacy-focused zero-knowledge proof architecture could enhance the capabilities of these competing blockchains rather than displace them.

Midnight Could Help XRP Challenge Traditional Banks and Achieve Satoshi’s Vision for Bitcoin

Hoskinson said integrating the Midnight Protocol with XRP Ledger would give the network the computational capabilities needed to challenge traditional banks by enabling private and compliant decentralized finance (DeFi).

He added that Midnight could also help make Satoshi Nakamoto’s decentralization vision for Bitcoin possible.

“Adding Midnight to XRP DeFi is going to blow the old banks out of the water. Adding Midnight to Bitcoin delivers the world Satoshi imagined possible,” he said on X.

Returning to the Cardano network, Hoskinson added that Midnight could help increase the network’s monthly active users and total value locked (TVL) on the blockchain by expanding the ecosystem’s utility beyond its native chain.

This attempt to position Midnight as a cross-chain, interoperable privacy solution for competing blockchains marks a shift for Hoskinson, who has historically focused on building within the Cardano ecosystem.

Hoskinson criticizes Legacy Finance for using the Canton network

While defending Midnight on

He argued that Canton blockchain and other partial solutions do not meet what institutional adoption requires.

“There are no half measures or half technologies. You need an end-to-end strategy, great partners and great communities,” he said.

Tackling this $10 trillion RWA market. There are no half measures or half technologies. You need an end-to-end strategy, great partners and great communities.

You cannot fake Cardano or XRP Nation.

– Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) December 26, 2025

According to the Cardano founder, the XRP Ledger and Midnight Protocol are already operating at a “100x” scale beyond what legacy institutions aim to build.

NIGHT rebounds from support and is now approaching key resistance

Cardano began rolling out the Midnight Protocol on December 8, with the blockchain expected to achieve full decentralization through a four-phase roadmap that will end in the third quarter of 2026.

The privacy platform’s token, NIGHT, launched on the Cardano network on December 4. Interest around the token has skyrocketed, which has seen the altcoin exceed Crypto Market Leaders Bitcoin and Ethereum on CoinGecko Trending List on December 26.

4-hour chart for NIGHT/USD (Source: GeckoTerminal)

Over the past few days, NIGHT price also entered an ascending channel after rebounding from the $0.07036 support. Now, the crypto is trying to challenge the $0.09131 resistance.

Breaking this technical barrier could lead to an increase up to $0.10932. Conversely, a rejection of resistance could result in a decline to the nearest support at $0.06970.

Looking at the technical indicators on the 4-hour chart shows that momentum and strength are currently favoring the bulls.

The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) line is above the MACD signal line, suggesting that buyers have more momentum than sellers. Additionally, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is above the neutral bar from 50 to 59, indicating that the bulls are stronger than the bears.

NIGHT price also benefits from support from the exponential moving averages (EMA) of 9 and 20, which are currently driving the token’s value higher.

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