Cardano Founder Says Midnight Will Be Bigger Than Zcash

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has predicted that privacy-focused blockchain Midnight will eventually surpass Zcash.

Alex Dovbnya · 28 Sep 2026 · 5 min read

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Cardano Founder Says Midnight Will Be Bigger Than Zcash

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Alex Dovbnya

Mon, 28/09/2026 – 5:39

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has predicted that privacy-focused blockchain Midnight will eventually surpass Zcash.

Cardano Founder Says Midnight Will Be Bigger Than Zcash

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A specialized partner chain
Cross-chain expansion is accelerating

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has predicted that privacy-focused blockchain project Midnight will eventually become bigger than Zcash.

Hoskinson believes that this will happen due to a potent combination of privacy technology, artificial intelligence, cross-chain functionality, and Cardano infrastructure.

“Midnight will be bigger than ZCash: selective disclosure, Private Agents, Abstraction with a DeFi Kernel for all major chains, ZK + TEE + MPC, and Cardano’s 24/7 uptime combined with the magic of Leios. LFG 2027,” Hoskinson wrote.

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Weiss Crypto had earlier claimed that NIGHT had “a good chance of becoming one of the best plays of the next 24 months.”

Hoskinson did not specify exactly what he meant by “bigger.” The market cap of NIGHT currently stands at $437 million, which makes it the 122nd biggest cryptocurrency market capitalization, CoinGecko data shows. For comparison, ZEC has become a fixture within the top 10 with a market cap of $26.4 billion.

A specialized partner chain

The Midnight mainnet went live in March. It is somewhat different from what the description “Cardano privacy chain” might imply.

It is a specialized layer-1 partner chain operating alongside Cardano. It maintains its own ledger, and transactions are processed independently. At the same time, its architecture has important connections with Cardano.

Cross-chain expansion is accelerating

An important part of Hoskinson’s latest statement is his reference to a DeFi kernel “for all major chains.”

In August, VIA Labs deployed its universal cross-chain messaging system on Midnight. According to the Midnight Foundation, the integration connects Midnight with more than 130 public and private networks

Hoskinson previously argued that Midnight’s economics are explicitly designed around cooperation. “The capacity exchange will accept Bitcoin and Ether and Solana and Avalanche and BNB. So, what we found is a tokenomics of cooperation instead of a tokenomics of an adversarial nature,” he said.

Hoskinson went as far as describing Midnight as effectively becoming a privacy layer available across the cryptocurrency industry.

“Everything a holder of Night wants is to be friends with everybody in the space and a layer two to everyone effectively. And that’s different,” he said.

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