In 1642, Rembrandt painted The Night Watch 🌙

It was never meant as a night scene. Rembrandt lit only what mattered (the captain, the lieutenant, the girl in gold) and left the rest in shadow.

That's how @MidnightNtwrk works. You prove what matters and keep the rest private, and everything is still verifiable underneath.

Ura is building the watch: a private path, swaps and capacity on Midnight, where you don't have to trust a server because the proofs do the work.

Painted in Amsterdam. Built in Amsterdam. 🇳🇱

Something big is coming that will change the Midnight space forever. Stay watching. 👀

Mithril on Cardano Preprod: from about an hour to about 8 minutes. A faster private path to Midnight.

Thanks @TeragoneFactory @MidnightNtwrk @IOGroup @Cardano

Only the start. Big things land this week that will change the Midnight space forever.

#Mithril #Midnight #Cardano

Mithril proofs on Cardano Preprod now arrive in minutes, not an hour.

Block and transaction certificates sign 5 blocks behind the tip, down from 100. Across 20 live certificates today, a transaction was covered in about 8 minutes (median).

Thanks @TeragoneFactory #Mithril

Ura's private onboarding path is live on Preprod for ADA shielding today, with ETH, XRP, SOL and BNB coming soon.

Thank you to @MidnightNtwrk and @IOGroup for the ecosystem we build on.

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This is only the beginning.

Big things are coming this week that will change the Midnight space for good. Stay close.

#Midnight #Cardano #Mithril

Mithril end of sprint update #3 ! 🚀🔥

Summary :

The Mithril team maintained a strong pace this period, fixing production issues while progressing on SNARK/IVC certification, IPFS artifact distribution and the Cardano 11.1 upgrade. ⚡

What was achieved :

- Fixed production-related bugs affecting aggregator and signer nodes
- Advanced SNARK/IVC certification with e2e, property and off-circuit testing
- Completed the IPFS artifact distribution PoC + e2e test suite
- Improved aggregator compilation and proving performance
- Continued Cardano 11.1 compatibility work
- Updated technical documentation

Looking ahead :

- Circuit verification & key registry
- Certificate chain caching
- SNARK verification key proofs
- IVC follower aggregator
- Completing the Cardano 11.1 upgrade

More progress toward a faster, more decentralized and more capable Mithril. 🛠️

#Mithril #Cardano #SPO #Drep #ADA

Small team. Real progress.

Here’s a 30-second look at Ura Relay Club: an API for sponsoring supported Midnight apps’ DUST fees.

Preprod pilot. Project approval required.

@MidnightNtwrk @midnightfdn

relayclub.ura.finance

Yes, pretty much. 👍

With a regular sync, the node downloads and validates the chain history from the network from the beginning.

With Mithril, it can bootstrap from a certified Cardano database snapshot, cryptographically verified through the Mithril network, and then resume normal synchronization from that recent point.

So you still end up with a fully operational node, you just get there much faster. ⚡

Your NIGHT could power more than your own transactions.

Ura Relay Club is live on Preprod. Next: connecting holders, wallets and applications.

uralabs.medium.com/ura-is-buildin…

@MidnightNtwrk @midnightfdn @shieldedtech @GeroWallet @Cardano_CF @Polkadot

relayclub.ura.finance live now 🟢
Your NIGHT could do more. 👀

Our next goal for Ura Relay Club: let NIGHT holders earn a share of sponsorship fees by directing future DUST capacity to Midnight apps.

Keep your NIGHT. Help power the ecosystem.

relayclub.ura.finance

ZK-settled perps without exposing positions — that’s the Midnight direction.
Ura’s job is the onboarding layer: ADA shielding live on preprod. Same private path when ETH, XRP, SOL, and BNB land.
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GRANDPA: GHOST-based Recursive ANcestor Deriving Prefix Agreement. Validators vote on which Midnight blocks are final and cannot normally be reversed. Think of it as the judge confirming the official history.

BEEFY: Bridge Efficiency Enabling Finality Yielder. It creates compact, signed confirmations that other blockchains can verify efficiently. Think of it as a bridge-friendly certificate of finality.

MMR: Merkle Mountain Range. An append-only cryptographic record of blockchain history. It lets someone prove that specific information belongs to that history without downloading everything.

MMR leaf: One individual record inside the MMR, usually containing information connected to a block. An MMR proof connects that leaf to the signed MMR root.

BIG UPDATE !

external Mithril recursive IVC verification reproduced.

We generated a fresh IvcSnark proof against Midnight’s trusted SRS at pinned Mithril df38c0c, serialized it through the official wire format, then verified it from an independent, unpatched process using ateSignature::verify path.

We then tested well-formed adversarial inputs:

wrong protocol message ->REJECT
valid wrong genesis key -> REJECT
valid wrong verifier context -> REJECT
well-formed tampered proof -> REJECT

The trusted SRS verifier parameters matched Mithril’s embedded verifier parameters, and the result reproduced with deterministic evidence.
Boundary: this is offline, pinned recursive IVC conformance evidence.

@VeridiseInc your work explaining recursive SNARKs, accumulation and IVC has been useful context while we worked through the actual external verification boundary.

Fireside Dev Hang: Build Club Demos and a New Partner Sprint | August 26th, 2026 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…